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 15th 2008
I just got a promotional email from HP that shows the Mini-Note is now available for $399. This starting configuration is the low-end version of the netbook:
Via processor
512 MB of RAM
Suse Linux
4 GB SSD
The unit with 1 GB of RAM, 120 GB hard drive and Windows XP but with no Bluetooth is now just $499. [...]
October 15th 2008
Apricot Computers has returned to the UK with an entry into the netbook market.
Apricot’s “PicoBook Pro” is an 8.9-inch netbook boasting optional WiMAX support that will be priced at £279. Oh, and it’s tiny!!!!!
It runs either Linux or Windows XP, has a 60GB hard drive and boasts a battery life of 4 hours.
They even throw [...]
October 15th 2008
The Kingston 32 GB DataTraveler, also known as the DT150, is now shipping. The DT150 has the largest capacity in Kingston’s entire line of DataTraveler USB Drives. Almost as convenient as a portable hardrive the DT150 will fit easily in your pocket. You can now transport large business documents, photos and music libraries without ever [...]
October 10th 2008
The OpenOffice suite has continued to evolve and the next major release (3.0) is scheduled for official release on Monday. Sun posted it to a bunch of mirror sites already so if you can’t wait or you want something to do over the weekend then give it a go. OpenOffice is a very full-featured productivity [...]
October 8th 2008
Sure, USB flash drives are so old school but that changes when they get bumped up to 32 GB. Kingston has produced such a jewel and the 32GB DataTraveler 150 looks to handle all your portable storage needs. The little drive works with all flavors of Windows, Macs and Linux and retails for a measly [...]
October 7th 2008
Evolution has long been an Outlook replacement for the Linux world and it has evolved nicely. Providing a handy portal into Exchange Servers for the Linux crowd, it has now been released for Windows. Evolution for Windows qualifies for our Freeware of the Moment because it provides a free and full-featured method for working with [...]
October 7th 2008
I love Firefox but and have always wished I could have it running on my mobile devices. Sure Opera Mobile is really good but it’s not Firefox. Mozilla has been working on Firefox Mobile for a very long time, forever it seems, but word is coming out that a real alpha version is just weeks [...]
October 7th 2008
Not too long ago I grabbed an Acer Aspire One to get a feel for the device performance. I was happy with it under Linux, but found the low-cost Intel Solid State Disk module to be a bottleneck with Windows XP. On the surface, the write speeds really struggled, especially with random writes. I’m fairly [...]
October 7th 2008
I might be in the minority when I say that mobile device boot time doesn’t matter, but I can’t help to notice this project. A few weeks ago, two Linux developers demonstrated a five-second boot time on an Asus Eee PC with Solid State Disk. The entire approach wasn’t to make a device boot faster, [...]
October 7th 2008
Everyone’s favorite music-genome-powered web radio service Pandora is now officially available on everyone’s favorite ambiguous-use plush-paneled Linux appliance, the Chumby. Fitting of their…
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Tags: Favorite Music, Goodness, Linux, Linux Appliance, Music Genome, Music Radio, Music Service, Music Web, Pandora, Radio Service, Web Radio, Web Service
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
Laptop Magazine interviewed one of the top US executives for MSI about what is in store for the popular Wind netbook line. According to Andy Tung, Director of US Sales for MSI, the Wind U100 should soon be available in a "major retailer" in the US. The model will have a 3-cell battery and Windows [...]
October 5th 2008
The Linux edition of MSI’s Wind is returned four times as often as the Windows version. In an interview with Laptop mag, MSI’s director of U.S. sales, Andy Tung, says that buyers just don’t want to learn how to use it.
Our internal research has shown that the return of netbooks is higher than regular notebooks, [...]
October 4th 2008
Tthe Linux edition of MSI’s Wind is returned four times as often as the Windows version. In an interview with Laptop mag, MSI’s director of U.S. sales, Andy Tung, says that buyers just don’t want to learn how to use it.
Our internal research has shown that the return of netbooks is higher than regular notebooks, [...]
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
The MSI Wind with the 10-inch screen is one of the top netbooks to beat so when MSI released the U90, the 8.9-inch brother it sounded pretty good. Laptop Magazine has reviewed the U90 and basically say MSI screwed up a good thing. The U90 uses the same chassis that the 10-inch Wind uses, [...]
October 3rd 2008
Turning the Iphone into a Wireless Router from John Chow on Vimeo.
We don’t often cover apps for jailbroken iPhones, but the topic of using a 3G phone as a WiFi hotspot to share the connection is one we’ve shared before. Apps like WMWiFiRouter and JoikuSpot cover this function on Windows Mobile and Symbian S60 [...]
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
Netbooks were supposed to be this great inroad for Linux development, but it turns out that the XP side of the netbook business is doing a lot better in the area of customer satisfaction: MSI today…
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Tags: Customer Satisfaction, Inroad, Linux, Linux Development, Linux Xp, Msi, Netbooks