October 16th 2008
Let’s get the sub-$300 netbook party started! Pereira just pinged me to share this Best Buy link which shows the white Asus Eee PC 900A available for $299. This is basically the same model as the 900, but the "A" stands for Atom. As in 1.6 GHz Intel Atom. So it still comes with Linux [...]
October 14th 2008
You’ve likely heard enough today about expensive laptops and need to hear about some netbook goodness. Laptop Magazine’s netbook diva Joanna Stern has you covered with a hands on look at the new Samsung NC10 netbook. Joanna spends some quality time with the $499 10-inch Samsung and shares her thoughts on the new netbook. The [...]
October 14th 2008
Look, folks, I know that some might think our proud nation is the only one out there really moving technology forward, but sometimes we’ve got to give a tip of our flaps to other quasi-independent sectors out there making a difference. That’s why I’ve nothing but kudos for the Egyptian government’s choice to pass “Telecoms [...]
October 13th 2008
You got £400 and would like a touch-screen desktop puter?
How about this little thing from ASUS.
Another machine from the ever increasing Eee range is finally showing signs realisation thanks to a pre-order page hosted up at Play.com.
The all white slab packs a 1.6GHz Intel Atom CPU, 1GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive, 15.6-inch LCD, Windows XP [...]
October 13th 2008
Look, folks, I know that some might think our proud nation is the only one out there really moving technology forward, but sometimes we’ve got to give a tip of our flaps to other quasi-independent sectors out there making a difference. That’s why I’ve nothing but kudos for the Egyptian government’s choice to pass “Telecoms [...]
October 12th 2008
Details concerning the release of a brand new, premium netbook were leaked earlier this week, much to Asus’ ire. The netbook is the new EeePc S101, and it comes with some features that are sure to please.
The specs include:
• Intel Atom chipset
• 1GB RAM
• Up to 64GB SSD with free 20GB online storage
• 802.11a/b/g/n [...]
October 10th 2008
One of the more expensive netbooks gets a price break this month according to Small Laptops. The MSI Wind saw a price hike in the summer now sees a $50 rebate on select models in October. You can find the standard U100 configuration of 1.6 GHz Atom, 120GB hard drive, 1 GB of RAM and [...]
October 9th 2008
One of the first things I noticed when I received the evaluation S10 netbook from Lenovo was how the specs of the review unit were not available for the consumer to purchase. This always creates a bad situation for us as reviewers as it casts a pall over our reviews because it looks like reviewers [...]
October 8th 2008
It appears the term "netbook" must be official with the report that Intel, maker of the Atom processor that appears in most mini-notebooks, has purchased the domain netbook.com. If you go to netbook.com it takes you to a page where Intel is promoting the Atom processor:
What I find amazing is that the netbook domain was [...]
October 8th 2008
The term UMPC gained most of its momentum in 2008 when many major manufacturers produced a model to compete in this growing market. We saw everything from the 7” Eee Pc to the 10” MSI Wind. Many of them offered a hard drive size to be laughed at and poor battery life with 3 cell [...]
October 6th 2008
We told you earlier that MSI was going to announce the appearance of the Wind U100 in a "major retailer" and today they did so. We got the PR from MSI that announces the Wind will be appearing shortly in Best Buy stores throughout the US for $399. Soon you’ll be able to walk into [...]
October 6th 2008
Just a quick note before I actually drop off for a few hours. Over the weekend I decided to take a look at how well Microsoft Windows Vista does or doesn’t run on a netbook. Mac OS X was a nice little experiment and quite usable, but I remember thinking about early Intel Atom [...]
October 6th 2008
MSI has announced that people wishing to get their hands on an MSI Wind U100 Netbook can stroll into their nearest Best Buy starting today and pick up the 10″ 3-cell version with a 1.6GHz Intel Atom…
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Tags: Atom, Best Buy, Intel, Msi
October 5th 2008
Now, this is something that I don’t admit regularly but here is a MID that actually is worth salivating over,
With this Mobile Internet Device BenQ seems to have nailed almost everything on their MID S6.
They have crammed in an 800MHz Intel Atom CPU, 4.8-inch WVGA (800 x 480) display, 512MB DDR2 RAM, a 2GB SSD, [...]
October 4th 2008
The new Asus Eee PC S101 is my new favorite netbook that I probably still won’t buy. It’s gorgeous, but more than that, it’s tiny: 10.2-inch screen, less than 1 kilogram in weight (probably around 2 pounds), and only 1.8-centimeters thick. Before you ask: yup, that’s smaller and thinner than the MacBook Air.
The tech specs [...]
October 3rd 2008
Even non-fans of netbooks have to agree: these little notebooks are becoming more hackalicious by the day. Take the above homebrew UMPC for example. The creator cobbled this together with an Acer Aspire One and a touchscreen kit for a small but usuable slatebook. It looks like the touch display is grafted right into the [...]
October 3rd 2008
I just received the hot new Lenovo IdeaPad S10 netbook yesterday but due to high demand I just had to get a video of it so here you go. The Lenovo S10 is a 10-inch netbook and the unit I have is running a 1.6 GHz Intel Atom processor, has 1 GB of RAM, WiFi [...]
October 3rd 2008
The new Asus Eee PC S101 is my new favorite netbook that I probably still won’t buy. It’s gorgeous, but more than that, it’s tiny: 10.2-inch screen, less than 1 kilogram in weight (probably around 2 pounds), and only 1.8-centimeters thick. Before you ask: yup, that’s smaller and thinner than the MacBook Air.
The tech specs [...]
October 3rd 2008
It’s been a while since an Asus product has rocked our world—we think the last time must have been the Eee—but the Atom-powered SSD-based Asus S101 looks amazing for its price—even…
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Tags: Asus Product, Atom, Laptops, Last Time, Mdash, Ssd
October 1st 2008
There’s no guarantee that the trend will continue, but netbook prices in Taiwan are dropping as the Intel Atom shortage disappears and competition rises. Price drops include:
Asus Eee PC 700-series is down to $249
Asus expects to reduce the Eee PC 1000 with Linux from $623 to under $530, while the 1000H will drop $31 while [...]