Netbooks

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 [...]

At the end of yesterdays unveiling of Sony’s new tablet devices, Sony also unveiled a couple of teaser images of its PC developments in the form of the Sony “Ultra Mobile” And “Freestyle Hybrid” PCs. No specifications have been released regards the two new PC systems which might at this moment only be conceptual artwork released by Sony [...]

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 [...]

D-link has unveiled a new line of tiny wireless Nano USB adapters which are perfect if you have an older wifi card installed on your laptop or computer and need a quick and easy way to upgrade with the minimal amount of protrusion. The DWA-131 includes the latest 11n technology which use Intelligent Antenna technology 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 [...]

Fuduntu 14.9 stable has now been released of the stripped down Linux distribution which gets its name from being somewhere between the Fedora and Ubuntu and optimised for netbooks and portable devices. Fuduntu 14.9 integrates several new technologies unique to the distribution designed to improve the user experience including support for Adobe Flash Plugin 10.2 and Chromium 9 (Stable).

Bigfoot has just launched it latest adapter designed to fulfill consumers’ growing appetite for mobile online gaming, on-demand media and other time-sensitive applications by pushing every possible last drop of speed from a mobile Wi-fi connection, in the form of its new Killer Wireless-N adapter.

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, [...]