October 16th 2008
Nokia E90 Communicators have a week-old firmware bump waiting for them, but if you use BlackBerry Connect, you’ll want to hold off on this one. Version 300.34.84 will do away with support for BB Connect, although it does offer some new features that might interest you enough:
Faster screen orientation switching
Nokia Maps 2.0
Download! application updated [...]
October 16th 2008
Those of you who use the search bar in Vista or Windows Search in XP know the strength of powerful searching from the command line. You may even have wished that you could search for text within your Office 2007 documents to find that nugget of information you know exists. If that describes you then [...]
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 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
I’m in a freeware mode today, so bear with me. After finding a free utility to put the unread e-mail count in my Mac menu bar, I see that Mobility Site is sharing software specific to the Acer Aspire One I owned for two weeks. Although the fan noise didn’t bother me, others in my [...]
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 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 10th 2008
Another week has flown by, it must be true that the older you get the faster time flies. It’s been a good week for mobile tech and the Manor has been a busy place. The week has seen too much netbook news that’s for sure. You can’t turn around without seeing netbooks all over the [...]
October 9th 2008
I’m a sucker for good themes to make my Windows XP systems look all pretty. That’s why I have been using the Zune theme. Lifehacker has pointed to a dark blue theme that is very nice that was done for Windows Embedded systems that can be applied to XP (wallpaper not included):
You can download the [...]
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 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 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
My excursion into the netbook world has me looking fast and furious into utilities that work well under Windows XP and especially those that make good use of the lower resolution screen. Today’s Freeware of the Moment does that by enabling a nice dual pane display while offering a pretty full-featured file manager. Xplorer2 is [...]
October 6th 2008
A netbook purchase choice just might be a little harder now, or actually easier, depending on your point of view. The Acer Aspire One is now appearing on Amazon in new configurations and colors. Yup, they cost a bunch more, but some will be happy with the upgraded configurations. For starters, there’s a 6-cell battery [...]
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
According to a leaked email from a PC OEM, Microsoft has officially extended the life of its now-beloved Windows XP, moving the date of planned obsolescence from January 31, 2009 all the way to July…
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