The Flexbook concept has been designed by Hao-chun Huang as part of this years FUJITSU design award 2011. The design has been shortlisted from over 1000 designs in the recent Design Boom competition ‘a life with future computing’, organised in collaboration with Fujitsu. The design allows its shape to be transformed into a number of different configurations, [...]

This week Google has launched its new range of Chromebooks in the form of the Samsung Chromebook Series 5 and  Acer Chromebook. But even before their launch it was announced that Verizon would be providing the Stateside 3G connectivity. However very little was know about the UK’s 3G provider for the new Google devices, until now. [...]

At Google I/O today Google has taken the wraps off its new Acer Chromebook system equipped with a 11.6 inch 1,366 x 768-pixel 16:9 screen and powered by an Intel Atom N570 processor supported by 2GB RAM. The new netbook is also equipped with a 16Gb SSD drive and 1.3 megapixel camera and will be soon available to purchase for [...]

Asus has updated some of its netbook range with the latest Intel Atom dual core 1.66GHz processors, and it looks like there are now about six different models which will shortly be available with the latest dual core Atom processors. Included in the range are the Eee PC 1015PN, which comes with the Intel Atom [...]

If you have been waiting for the arrival of the ASUS Eee PC 1015PX Netbook, you will be pleased to know that Asus has now started shipping their new netbook and its now available to purchase. The new ASUS Eee PC 1015PX is powered by an Intel Atom N570 Dual Core Processor 1.66Ghz, supported by 1 GB DDR3 SODIMM memory, which is [...]

A Chromium bug report has revealed a new Samsung Chrome OS netbook named ‘Alex’ which is equipped with a 1280 x 800 display that is rumoured to be 10 inches in size, like the mockup pictured below. Its thought to be powered by a 1.5GHz dual-core Atom N550, SanDisk SSD P4 of unknown capacity, and 2GB RAM. Together with listing [...]

Hercules has launched a new range of eCAFE netbooks, the eCAFE Slim HD and the eCAFE EX HD, both models are designed to be ultra portable, and the EX HD is designed to provide up to 13 hours of usage. Both models comes with a Cortex A8 processor, and Linux as the OS, you get [...]

Google has been testing out its Chrome OS since December last year with its Chrome OS pilot program, we recently heard that one manufacturer, Asus is working on a Chrome OS netbook. Now Google has been talking to the guys over at Pocket Lint, and has confirmed to them that they are getting ready to [...]

Before tablets became popular we would get a press release virtually every day from a manufacturer telling us about their latest netbook, new ones seemed to be launching all the time, but things have changed over the last 12 months. Netbooks were designed originally to be ultra cheap computers, this changed as manufacturers added more [...]

If you are in the market for a cheap nettop or netbook to use in your home or office the Genesi Efika MX smarttop and smartbook might be worth a look. Both of the machines have had their prices cut to more affordable levels.

NEC has just launched the LifeTouch Note, which is an Android powered netbook and it will come with Android 2.2 Froyo and features a 7 inch LCD resistive touchscreen display and a QWERTY keyboard. Other specifications on the NEC LifeTouch Note include an NVIDIA Tegra 250 2-core 1GHz processor, plus 8GB of built in storage, [...]

Fujitsu has just unveiled the first netbook to be pre-installed with a MeeGo OS which has just started shipping to Singapore. The new Netbook called the LifeBook MH330 is equipped with a 1.66GHz Intel Atom N455 processor, 1GB of RAM (2GB RAM max), 250GB hard drive, and a 10.1-inch 1024 x 600 pixel LED display.