November 25, 2008 – 5:18 pm
The highly rated NC10 netbook by Samsung has been praised for its performance, great keyboard, and especially its impressive battery life (a 6-cell that lasts seven or more hours), and now according to Slashgear, we’re about to be given more eye candy options.
New black and two-tone blue color choices will soon be out and about, [...]
November 25, 2008 – 5:09 pm
The guys at Team Australia have managed to do something quite amazing. They got hold of an MSI Wind U100 and putting the official MSI bios overclocking tool to use, along with plenty of liquid nitrogen, managed to overclock the 1.6GHz Atom N270 CPU to an jaw-dropping 2.385GHz. Sure, its doubtful that we’ll be seeing [...]
November 25, 2008 – 4:57 pm
Netbooks are growing, both in terms of popularity and size, and the DigiTimes has news from Acer of plans to release a new 10-inch version of its normally 8.9-inch Aspire One netbook. Scott Lin, Acer Taiwan president, tells us that this new version of the very popular netbook will be launched in either February or [...]
November 24, 2008 – 5:39 pm
Here’s an interesting story from Lilputing via Tech Ticker that shows how more than the big names are getting in on the netbook craze. Graphics card maker HIS has revealed its new netbook offering in Mumbai, India. It definitely shares some similarities to the MSI Wind U100 minus a few LED lights, perhaps being less [...]
November 24, 2008 – 5:22 pm
As if Dell’s Mini 9 wasn’t already good value for money, they have now doubled the solid-storage drive (SSD) capacity available with a new 32GB option. Previously they offered the base model with a 4GB SSD, then options for 8GB (+$35) and 16GB (+$75). Okay, so when you look at the 16GB price, the logical [...]
November 24, 2008 – 5:10 pm
MSI has announced the latest installment to its popular Wind netbook series, the lightweight Wind U120. Its predecessor, the Wind U100, was met with largely favorable reviews, but hit stores missing a few features that would have been useful.
The basic specs for the U120 are the recent standard, with the Atom-fueled Intel 1.6GHZ processor, 1GB [...]
November 21, 2008 – 5:24 pm
Any Hello Kitty lovers out there? Admit it, you’d love a Hello Kitty netbook and now is your chance with Onkyo Japan’s newly released Sotec DC10 themed after the cutesy icon of Japanese pop culture. The netbook comes with an exclusive Hello Kitty wallpaper and casing artwork.
The specs are of the usual netbook standard: 1.6GHz [...]
November 20, 2008 – 4:49 pm
Pocket Lint in the UK has word of yet another run-of-the-mill netbook release in the form of Packard Bell’s dot (not the Eastenders character). The most novel part of the design, which features an 8.9-inch screen, is fittingly a red dot. Otherwise, everything is fairly standard and normal with a typical Intel Atom N270 processor, [...]
November 20, 2008 – 4:04 pm
Runcore has launched a brand spankin’ new line of SSDs (Solid State Disks) to speed things up for your Asus or Dell netbook experience. They have brought out four top notch controllers that offer 70Mbps read and 50Mbps write speeds and come with four storage capacity options: 16GB ($69), 32GB ($119), 64GB ($199), and 128GB [...]
November 19, 2008 – 3:14 pm
The Hercules eCafe EC-900, the successor to the EC-800, is now shipping in Europe according to Lilputing. This release is a big upgrade on its predecessor, featuring an 8.9-inch screen, a 1.6GHz Atom-powered CPU, 1GB of RAM, and a 60GB hard drive. Three USB ports, Wi-Fi, and a 6-cell battery are other inclusions, and a [...]
