Monthly Archives: March 2009

Samsung N110 netbook available for pre-order

The Samsung N110 netbook, first revealed about a week ago, then followed a day later by the N120, is now available for pre-order.
Right now, only Buy.com has it listed, offering it in black for a cost of $442 (5% or $27 off the usual $469).
The N110 which is more or less a style upgrade on [...]

ASUS makes the Eee PC 1004DN official

ASUS has issued an official press release for its Eee PC 1004DN, a “versatile, intuitive, and elegant” netbook that is being promoted as the first Eee PC to feature a Super-Multi optical disc drive that enables users to read and write optical discs for data back-ups.
The 1004DN is ASUS’ first 10-inch netbook and also sports [...]

2 new netbooks released in Japan

Two new very modest run-of-the-mill netbooks have been launched in Japan. From two different companies, neither offers anything remarkable besides what we’ve come to expect from standard netbooks.
From Kohjinsha comes the Kohjinsha ML6 range with smaller 8.9-inch (1024 x 600 pixels) display than what is becoming the norm in the netbook world nowadays. It sports [...]

ASUS launches the Eee PC 1002H

ASUS has launched yet another Eee PC netbook called the 1002H. “Wait”, you say, “Didn’t they launch that in December?”. Not quite, that was the 1002HA (note the “A”) while this is the 1002H. If ASUS is trying to confuse the heck out of people it is doing a great job.
You can probably guess the [...]

Shipping and pricing details for Gigabyte’s new netbook trio released

Gigabyte’s three new netbooks, showcased recently at CeBIT 2009, have been given shipping dates and pricing by importer Mobilx.
The M1022 BookTop and T1028M TouchNote will arrive at the end of April, with the ultra-slim ThinNote S1024 to follow some time after.
The BookTop and ThinNote both feature a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 processor, while the TouchNote [...]

One day later, Samsung reveals the N120

Samsung is keeping us netbook bloggers busy. One day after announcing the N110 and N310 netbooks, Samsung today revealed the N120, a 10.1-inch netbook with a full-sized keyboard like on its 12-inch notebooks. So in other words, it’ll have a small screen and a large keyboard.
Powered by an as-yet unknown Intel Atom processor, the N120 [...]

Intel may raise the price of N270 chips; Z550 & Z515 chips delayed

Intel’s ever-popular Atom N270 processor chip could be about to get a price hike, according to SlashGear.
Industry sources at netbook and MID manufacturers report that Intel are putting serious thought into raising the price of the N270 chip to about the same as the N280.
The reason for the price hike, should it happen, is an [...]

Acer to launch Aspire One Pro netbook range

Acer’s mysterious slim netbook now has a name and will be part of a new range titled the Acer Aspire One Pro netbooks.
Along with the 10.1-inch netbook that was revealed at the FCC website and is being dubbed the Acer Aspire Pro 531, there will be an 11.6-inch mini-notebook called the Acer Aspire One Pro [...]

Samsung reveals the N110 and N310 netbooks

Samsung has unveiled a new line of netbooks including the successor to the NC10. That is the N110 which is basically a style upgrade on the NC10 with basically the same specifications and some tweaks — given the positive reviews of the NC10, this is probably smart.
The only significant changes are a better keyboard and [...]

LG X120 gets release dates for Japan and Europe

We finally have some approximate release dates for LG’s X120 netbook that we learned earlier this month will be sold in America.
Japan will be the first to be graced by this impressive looking netbook, with the X120 expected to hit shelves there by the end of March — or in other words, any time now. [...]

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