March 11th 2010
It is raining 10-inch notebooks at Mobile Tech Manor today as the UPS guy just dropped off the Viliv S10 Blade. The S10 is a notebook from Korea that has some features not found in most netbooks. The convertible screen swings around to convert from notebook to slate tablet, and is augmented by a unique resistive [...]
March 11th 2010
Tags: Atom, Fcc, Fleeting Glimpse, Guts, Intel, Intel Bios, Nvidia, Peek
March 11th 2010
The FedEx guy showed up today unexpectedly and brought a new little bundle of joy to Mobile Tech Manor. Last year I thoroughly enjoyed evaluating HP’s Mini 5101 netbook, and the Mini 5201 that arrived today looks just as nice. It is a netbook made of brushed metal, which is unusual for a netbook as [...]
March 2nd 2010
When it comes to netbooks there is no such thing as too thin nor too light, and the new Averatec N1200 is certainly both. The 10-inch netbook weighs in at a svelte 2.2 pounds, in a case that is less than an inch thick. There are three different models of the N1200, all of them [...]
February 19th 2010
Intel is moving from conifers to deciduous trees as inspiration for its next Atom Z-series platform, if PC Watch is correct. The Z-series is residing in netbooks and ultra-portables such as the Vaio…
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Tags: Atom, Conifers, Inspiration, Intel, Intel Intel, Moving, Oak Trail, Series Platform, Trees, Ultra Portables, Vaio
February 5th 2010
Speculation ran rampant before the iPad launch as to whether Apple would name the slate the iTablet or the iPad. We know the answer now, of course, but that doesn’t meant there isn’t an iTablet, too. A company in the UK, x2, has apparently decided to ignore the pleas from its lawyers and is producing [...]
February 2nd 2010
Intel’s Atom line of processors, used extensively in netbooks, have never been particularly powerful. They’re like the adorable kid sister of the Intel family. Today, though, reports indicate that…
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Tags: Adorable Kid, Atom, Guts, Intel, Intel Family, Intel Processors, Intel Support, Kid Sister, Stuff
January 27th 2010
Dell offered to loan me a Mini 10 netbook to see what the new Intel Atom N450 platform can do. Of course, I said yes and the device arrived earlier this morning. While the Mini line of netbooks isn’t new, I haven’t had any extended time with Dell’s netbook offerings. This particular unit includes the [...]
January 26th 2010
The MSI Wind has been a long-time top seller in the netbook world, which is not long given how new the netbook really is. I was impressed with Kevin’s original Wind and found it to be a stellar netbook. MSI is already jumping on the Pine Trail with the release of the Wind U135. The [...]
January 26th 2010
With new advances like NVIDIA’s Ion chipset and Intel’s own buffing of their Atom CPU with Pinetrail, netbooks are getting to be better and better multimedia and gaming machines by the day.
That said, if you want to watch video on your netbook, you’ll pretty much top out at 720p: the graphics processors in your [...]
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January 26th 2010
HP released probably the first modernly designed netbook in their original Mini, which mimicked the aluminum unibody look of the MacBook while retaining the specs of your typical 10.1 inch Eee. Ever since, I’ve been a fan of their Atom-based offerings, but it’s hard to get too excited about their latest entry into the Mini [...]
January 25th 2010
Intel’s Atom chip is pretty much ubiquitous as the driving CPU of the 10 inch notebook, but Panasonic Japan’s latest entry into their line of ultraportable notebooks eschews that low-power CPU entirely for a surprisingly beefy (if underclocked) multicore processor: the Intel Core i7.
Panasonic’s “Let’s Note” R-Series CF-R9KWACDR is a 10.4 inch XGA ultaportable. As [...]
January 25th 2010
Ever since they pretty much invented the netbook, Asus has slapped the Eee brand on an ever expanding line of ultra compact computers using the low power-sipping Atom chipset. Most of these products are a curiosity at best, and certainly, the original Asus Eee Keyboard fit the bill: it was essentially a computer in a [...]
January 22nd 2010
For all of the waiting, hype and promise of Intel’s PineTrail netbook platform, you have to wonder — did it meet expectations? One way to answer that question is to review a PineTrail-powered netbook and compare it to the ol’ N270 and N280 Atom devices. That’s exactly what Brad Linder did at Liliputing with his [...]
January 21st 2010
Intel’s Reader, developed by a dyslexic Stanford graduate, is a powerful device for dyslexic and visually impaired readers, allowing them to scan entire pages of text to audio for immediate playback or later review.
The book-sized device is capable of capturing text from a variety of sources, ranging from restaurant menus to academic journals. That scanned [...]
January 20th 2010
What happens when you combine an “old school” netbook with cutting edge mobile broadband? You get a subsidized netbook deal with WiMAX, of course! Liliputing caught an eyeful of just such a deal on the Clear website. And if you live in a WiMAX coverage area, it’s actually more compelling than a subsidized netbook with [...]
January 20th 2010
If you’re still hungover from your MLK day celebrations then these deals will dry you out in no time. A killer Acer laptop, a 24″ Dell widescreen, and free granola bars to eat over a keyboard. Don’t forget our tablet-prediction-sweepstakes!
Top Deals:
• 24″ Dell ST2410 Widescreen Monitor for $189 with free shipping (normally $269).
• 15.6″ Acer [...]
January 15th 2010
Everyone has been obsessed about slates lately, don’t ask me why. OK, I know why, but you have to admit it’s getting a bit long in the tooth. Some folks are anxious for a big slate running an ARM processor, although there are many who insist on having Windows on board so the slate will [...]
January 15th 2010
With Intel’s new Atom Pine Trail platform integrating the GPU to fight the likes of NVIDIA’s Ion, which marries the previous generation of Atom CPUs with an NVIDIA GeForce 9400M GPU, the whole future of the Ion platform has been in question. Depressingly, NVIDIA didn’t even make a peep about their plans for ION at [...]
January 13th 2010
Late last year a new Samsung netbook was spotted carrying the model number NB30. The spec was what you’d expect from most new netbooks:
N450 Atom
10.1″ display
160GB hard drive (with fall sensor)
1GB RAM
Intel GMA 3150 graphics
3MP camera, 3 USB ports, 3-in-1 card reader
8.5 hour battery life
The only real difference you will notice there is the fall [...]