February 20, 2009 – 7:26 pm
The DigiTimes is reporting that ASUS is on the verge of axing its entire 8.9-inch Eee PC netbook range this year.
Benson Lin, president of Asustek’s Asia-Pacific division, said that of Asustek’s 2009 Eee PC shipments, 90% of them will be 10-inch netbooks and 5% will be 7-inch models for telecom service operators.
Lin repeated what many [...]
February 20, 2009 – 7:00 pm
ASUS is considering using Google’s Android operating system in of its future netbooks, according to Liliputing.
With all the talk of Windows vs. Linux, a war that Acer told us in December that Microsoft iss winning, its interesting to hear about the possibility of a new third party OS being used on a big name netbook.
Android [...]
February 20, 2009 – 6:11 pm
After being made available for preorder at the beginning of February, the ASUS Eee PC 1000HE is now shipping at Amazon and the retail site has a good deal on. Like so many startup offers at Amazon, you can save a chunk of cash, 6% or $25 in fact, and grab the new 1000HE for [...]
February 19, 2009 – 5:44 pm
Speaking of bland, the Seamless Corporation has come up with a real “gem”, according to Liliputing. The Seamless SNBK-1 Mini Net Book may take the cake for predictable and generic late-comer.
The 10.2-inch SNBK-1 is powered by a 1.6GHz VIA C7-M processor, with a 1024 x 600 pixel display, a 120GB hard drive, and 1GB of [...]
February 19, 2009 – 5:29 pm
Just a few days after its big brother, the Archos 10s, was announced, the Archos 10 netbook is now available to buy.
I don’t know about you but I find the Archos 10 really bland in design and the specs are equally as mundane. a 10.2-inch screen (1024×600), 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor, 1GB of RAM, 160 [...]
February 19, 2009 – 5:19 pm
Dell has confirmed the specs for the much anticipated Inspiron Mini 10 and launched a website to go with it.
A low priced model intended to compete with rivals will cost $399 and will sports a 1.33GHz Intel Atom processor, 1GB of RAM, 160GB hard drive, a 16:9 ratio, and Windows XP.
A step up from that [...]
February 18, 2009 – 4:19 pm
Yesterday we reported that Lenovo is set to release the IdeaPad S20, its new 12-inch netbook powered by an Atom N280.
A day later and the DigiTimes has a very interesting article that suggests Lenovo’s new machines could become some of the first to utilize nVidia’s Ion platform. This information comes via reports in the Chinese-language [...]
February 18, 2009 – 12:07 pm
Freescale could soon make an impact in the netbook scene if everything goes according to their plan. The company is in a rush to get it’s netbooks on shelves before summer and with what they plan to offer, could definitely make a splash.
Not only do they plan to price the netbooks at a bargain basement [...]
February 17, 2009 – 5:47 pm
ARM’s Sparrow multicore netbook processor will go on show for the first time this week at Mobile World Congress ‘09, according to Engadget.
The Sparrow is a Cortex A9 processor aimed at netbook makers and is a multi-core update to the Cortex A8. Speculation has it that the Sparrow could be the processor of choice for [...]
February 17, 2009 – 4:56 pm
Another of the new 12-inch netbooks (or is that “netbooks”?) is on the way, this one courtesy of Lenovo. The DigiTimes has the story on another of these definition-blurring netbooks, this one called the IdeaPad S20.
Powered by an Atom N280, the specification again breaches Intel’s restrictions for netbooks that limit panel sizes to 10-inches, though [...]
