November 12, 2008 – 4:25 pm
Lilputing has word that Samsung’s NC10 netbook, available in parts of Europe and Asia now for a few weeks, is now starting to ship in the United States. Buy.com has it in stock already and ready to ship in 1-2 business days for $499, while Amazon doesn’t have it in stock yet, but if you’re [...]
November 12, 2008 – 4:06 pm
As the debate and confusion on exactly -what- a netbook is nowadays, Gizmodo has posted a short article via the Korean news network Aving on the release of a mini-netbook from Korean manufacturer UMID. And if you look at it (pictured right), you’ll see just how small it is! It boasts a 4.8-inch 1024×600 touchscreen [...]
November 11, 2008 – 3:25 pm
French company Lexibook have brought out what seems to be its own netbook for kids, according to Lilputing. It is actually being marketed as a laptop, but with a small 8-inch, 800 x 400 pixel screen screen and very low specs (400 MHz Samsung processor, 64 MB RAM, 2GB hard drive, 2 USB 1.1 ports), [...]
November 11, 2008 – 3:15 pm
CrunchGear via APC Magazine has the potentially big story of Intel’s dominance of the netbook CPU market being under threat from AMD, with the company set to announce its own netbook-specific processor as quickly as this week.
Battery life, ever an important feature among netbook users, is one of the main things that AMD plan to [...]
November 11, 2008 – 3:02 pm
According to the DigiTimes, Acer is putting some serious thought into releasing a “low-power and low-cost 1-liter nettop” at the beginning of 2009. A nettop is a mini-PC, practically the desktop equivalent of a netbook, making them brother and sister if you will (though they may argue over which one is the female, but being [...]
November 10, 2008 – 4:05 pm
Reviews for the new Dell Inspiron Mini 12 seem to be in the middle so far. Joanna Stern at LAPTOP Magazine has written two separate summaries of the first 12-inch mini-notebook ever (blog review, official review) and weighed up the pros and cons.
The first positive is what you see when you lay eyes on this [...]
November 10, 2008 – 4:00 pm
So after the story of netbooks becoming a threat to Microsoft next week, another story has emerged via Lilputing that opposes it. No, Bill Gates hasn’t ordered the destruction of Linux, but Asus has decided to eliminate the Linux Eee PC option in the Philippines.
An Asus official has said that response to Linux in the [...]
November 8, 2008 – 3:14 am
Hey guys, don’t forget that the Netbook Lounge (that’s us!) is running a contest where YOU can win your very own Dell Inspiron Mini 9 netbook. Want one of these beauties?
Okay, here’s all you have to do and you have until December 31st to get in on it – post on the forums. Yes, just [...]
November 7, 2008 – 7:27 pm
Asustek has revealed details of its new ASUS N20A model, a 12.1-inch ultraportable laptop “built for heavy usage” and aimed at business and personal entertainment users. If you look around the netbook community, there is some debate about whether they are still actually netbooks when they reach this sort of size, and this model continues [...]
November 7, 2008 – 3:30 pm
Netbooks are becoming an unexpected problem for Microsoft, according to Bloomberg. Acer Inc. and Asustek Computer, two of the big names in the netbook market, who make up 90% of said market, are using Linux on about 30% of their netbooks. Of course, Linux has always been a fairly non-threatening rival for Microsoft’s Windows series, [...]
