November 19, 2008 – 11:20 am
More news from Japan, this time directly from Akihabara News, and Epson Japan has finally launched a netbook it first signalled its intent to last October. Titled the Endeavor Na01, it is a standard notebook sporting a 10.2-inch LCD with WSVGA resolution, an Atom N270 CPU, 1GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive, Intel 945GSE [...]
November 19, 2008 – 10:33 am
Dospara out of Japan has emerged from the shadows with a new netbook called the Prime Note Cartina UM. For some odd reason, it is listed as a limited edition, with only thirty models available, a curious decision given the same-as-usual specs and a nice, but hardly awe-inspiring look.
Priced at ¥39,980 ($410), the Atom-fueled Prime [...]
November 18, 2008 – 9:22 pm
Network World has news that the alliance between chip maker ARM and Canonical, reported here last Thursday, is a “go”. ARM has officially announced its partnership with Canonical, commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, the open source Linux-based operating system software. This deal will lead to the production and implementation of an operating system for netbooks that [...]
November 18, 2008 – 3:54 pm
The guys over at Lilputing have word that Case Logic, a company that specializes in bags/cases/backpacks to carry important stuff around, has released a new range of 7 to 10-inch netbook cases. These cases aren’t just ones you can throw your netbook in – which are a dime a dozen – but feature protective padding [...]
November 17, 2008 – 3:12 pm
The talk that AMD is going head to head with Intel in the netbook process market seems to have been premature and, well, basically false. CNet claims that AMD are not going for the netbook market, but something between netbooks and laptops.
AMD Chief Executive Dirk Meyer set the record straight last week though with this [...]
November 17, 2008 – 3:08 pm
The Japanese are known for their love and promotion of anything cutesy, so it should come as no surprise that they are promoting two very eye-catching new color variations for the Dell Inspiron Mini 9. Engadget via the Japanese source Impress has pictures of these cuties, which are expected to to hit the United States [...]
November 14, 2008 – 4:18 pm
AMD held its expected press release to announce its roadmap for the next few years, and we were treated to a smattering amount of information on netbooks.
2009 will see the coming of the Conesus, a 65-nm chip with two cores and 1MB cache, that AMD is manufacturing for ultra-portables and mini-notebooks. In 2010, the Conesus [...]
November 14, 2008 – 3:54 pm
The Dell Inspiron Mini is now available in the United States for sale. This 12-inch netbook/ultraportable crossover starts at $549 and is in part slower than the Mini 9 (one of which we have up for grabs don’t forget) with a 1.33GHz Atom processor, but features 1GB of RAM, a 40GB hard drive, and comes [...]
November 13, 2008 – 2:39 pm
As if Intel didn’t already have enough to worry about with AMD’s expected announcement of the Bobcat tomorrow, another potential competitor has emerged. Laptop Magazine has a new story that ARM, a manufacturer of low-power consumption processors (the things found in smart phones and personal media players), has announced that it plans a full scale [...]
November 13, 2008 – 2:28 pm
With all the excitement surrounding AMD’s “Atom-killing” processor that is so strongly rumoured to be announced tomorrow at the company’s analyst conference, the expectation is that it will be the “Bobcat”, AMD’s UMPC-oriented processor. Intel is likely to be shaking in its boots ahead of this press conference, as the low-power CPU, should it be [...]
