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The Christmas shopping season has officially started and Black Friday is closing in on us. This season, with the economy still feeling pretty cushy, netbooks can make for the perfect present for your loved ones. Compact, light and utilitarian – these devices are the best thing to have on the go when coupled with a mobile broadband connection. If you want to know about the latest news in netbooks, hope over to the other side and fet your fill.
Lenovo x100e Strikes Again: Details
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The rumored Lenovo ThinkPad series netbook might be pretty real after all. Here we have some tasty details of the thing, revealed by a German website called Chip Online. So what are they saying? According to them, the display is 11.6” with a native resolution of 1366×768. The touchpad is multitouch and there will also be the familiar ThinkPad trackpoint.
Surprisingly, it is apparently running on an AMD Athlon Neo MV-40 chip. At least the company will (apparently) provide multiple real options for the OS, so you can have Home Premium or the Ultimate Edition of Windows 7 on it. [read]
Google Will Demo Chrome OS On Thursday
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After so much of speculation and everything, Google has declared that they will be hosting an event on Thursday around their upcoming OS – Chrome OS. It was reumored recently that they will release the Chrome OS for public consumption very soon. Logically, it would fit that they would want to release the thing to public beta. [read]
Entourage eDGe DualBook To Have Its Own E-book Store
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Entourage has become the latest to jump into the e-book business by announcing their own e-book store. They are setting up their own online store for their ebook-reader/netbook convergent device called the eDGe DualBook. With so many people jumping into the game and Apple planning something big, one has to wonder whether this is going the iTunes way. This situation is similar to what the music industry faced before iTunes took over. [read]
Haleron’s Ocean OS Now Available
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If you remember the company who made the dual-cpu netbook, they have been making more things of late. The latest in their offerings is a new netbook OS. It is yet another Linux-based light OS that has been stripped down so that it runs well on netbooks’ limited resources. [read]
HD Video On Notebooks And Netbooks, Courtesy Amimon
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Come 2010, you could be watching HD video on your notebooks and netbooks with a tiny Mini-PCIe adapter that works on WHDI (Wireless Home Digital Interface). It will be able to connect to a WHDI enabled HDTV and if you don’t have WHDI HDTV, you can use small WDHI to HDMI dongle. This technology has been developed by a company called Amimon. Sounds pretty smooth. Bring on the popcorn! [read]
MSI Wind Top AE2220 All-In-One Arrives With 1080p And Multitouch
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We have yet another all-in-one to throw into the mix thanks to MSI. The company has released a new all-in-one desktop system called the AE2220. It packs quite a punch with an Intel Core 2 Duo Turion processor and NVIDIA Ion graphics. It also features multitouch but I am slightly averse to the idea of working on a vertical touch-based screen for too long. May be it has something to do with doing lines on the chalkboard as a kid or may be it is simply inconvenient to keep your arm raised for too long. [read]
Malata’s Budget Tablet-Netbook
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Those crazy Chinese people have done it yet again. They have stuffed things into a netbook at a price that is pretty cheap going by the standard market rates. A company called Malata has released a 10” netbook called PC-91008, which is a convertible tablet. This is basically similar to the Asus T91MT but larger and faster. It is powered by an Atom N270 and Intel GMA 950 graphics.
It comes with WiFi, 1GB RAM and 160GB HDD as standard. You can upgrade to 2GB RAM, 250GB or 320GB HDD and also 3G capabilities. It comes with Windows 7 for $439 for the standard configuration. Nice eh? [read]
Ubuntu Netbook Remix Renamed
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May be they just got tired of the name or may be some uptight marketing guy thought that it wasn’t happening. Whatever the reason was, Ubuntu Netbook Remix OS will henceforth be known as Ubuntu Netbook Edition. Simple enough to understand, none of that Remix Jazz.
This OS is Ubuntu with a special user interface that helps netbooks users get the most out of their tiny screen space and one that utilizes stacks from the open source mobile Linux OS project Moblin.
Don’t Fall For Vaio W’s New Paintjob
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You know a company is either desperate or plain greedy, when they slap some paint on an existing laptop and charge extra money for that. Case in point – Sony has just released a new version of their Vaio W where they only thing that is new is the chassis color and graphics on the lid. They have put some snowflakes on top of a white background probably hoping that Christmas shoppers will fall for it without thinking.
We know better that Sony, we’re not buying this. Upgrade the machine itself and we might be interested yet. [read]
Netbook Failure Found To Be 20% Higher Than Laptops
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According to a new study that covers around 30,000 laptops and netbooks, netbooks tend to fail 20% more than laptops. That is worrying news, courtesy of SquareTrade. SquareTrade is an independent warranty provider who is saying that around 5.8% netbook malfunction within the first 12 months of purchase. Compared to the 4.7% laptops malfunctioning within the first 12 months, the difference is about 20%. [read]
Samsung Go Coming To AT&T
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Samsung Go is coming to AT&T. Poor Samsung Go. Knowing that it is on the fastest 3G network will do it little good when it will frequently fail to surf the net on the go. Nevertheless, the 3G equipped netbook from Samsung is heading for the Striped Blu Ball/Death Star with Windows 7 Starter Edition onboard. After the mail in rebate and a 2-year bondage… I mean data contract with AT&T for $35/month, you will get the laptop for $199. [read]
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