February 27, 2009 – 1:50 pm
The Dell Inspiron Mini 10 is now available via an order page at Dell’s official website. The starting price is $399 but as always you can add upgrades and goodies to drain your wallet even more.
The Mini 10 is available in six colors: Obsidian Black, Alpine White, New Cherry Red, Promise Pink ($5 being donated [...]
February 26, 2009 – 1:10 pm
11.6-inch netbooks could soon be an industry standard with a new report from the DigiTimes suggesting that demand for 11.6-inch panels is rising.
Both major players in the netbook market, Acer and ASUS, have 11.6-inch netbooks (with 1366×786 resolution panels) on the way and the plan looks to be vendors differentiating between 10.1-inch and 11.6-inch netbooks [...]
February 26, 2009 – 1:03 pm
Handset giant Nokia could be the next company to arrive in the netbook world, with the company’s chief executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo revealing some a potential huge bit of news on Finnish national broadcast YLE.
Kallasvuo said that Nokia is “looking very actively” at the possibility of entering the notebook scene with it’s own offerings and given [...]
February 26, 2009 – 12:52 pm
Pink is in! You may see many guys on the street sporting pink t-shirts nowadays but also in the netbook world has it become a color of choice for many brands. Who can forget the recent blatent attempts at cashing in on Valentine’s Day by MSI and Samsung?
Valentine’s Day may be over but we now [...]
February 26, 2009 – 12:39 pm
We still aren’t sure just what the mystery netbook of Acer’s leaked on Tuesday is but a new post at netbooknews.de reveals more information on it as well as fresh photos.
The as yet unnamed and even unconfirmed netbook will sport a 10.2-inch display (1024×600 resolution), a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 processor, 1GB of RAM, 160GB [...]
February 25, 2009 – 4:57 pm
It’s a pretty slow day for netbook news so I thought I’d post about something somewhat related — at least if you like small computers.
UMID out of Korea have produced what appears to be the world’s smallest laptop or a pocket computer. The UMID “mbook” has an incredibly tiny 4.8-inch screen, much smaller than even [...]
February 24, 2009 – 4:50 pm
We learned in the middle of January that Gigabyte Technology had a series of 10-inch netbooks planned for Q2 2009 — three in fact — and two of them are about to go on show at CeBIT 2009, according to Cheap Laptops.
The Gigabyte M1024 will be powered by Intel’s Atom N270 processor and will be [...]
February 24, 2009 – 4:43 pm
Microsoft’s “crazy chief” Steve Ballmer confirmed today that the next-generation Office 14 has been delayed until 2009. Why is this being reported in a netbook blog, you ask? Well, Ballmer revealed some relevant information, saying that a “netbook”-like version of Windows Server is also planned.
Microsoft is hopeful that this low-cost, low-price, low-functionality alternative will take [...]
February 24, 2009 – 4:34 pm
Liliputing (via Blogeee) has reported news that Acer could be developing yet another netbook (maybe we should have an acronym for this like YAN) after Macles managed to get hold of a few snapshots of what appears to be a new model.
It is similar to Acer’s AOD150 in appearance but a slimmer chassis and two [...]
February 23, 2009 – 7:55 pm
The Eee PC T91 was presented at CES 2009 in January as the centerpiece of a new range of ASUS that boast a completely new look and feel to what we’re used to from the Eee PC line.
The 8.9-inch touch screen makes it smaller than most new releases in what is becoming a scene increasingly [...]
