Electronics company Coby first showed off a line of cheap netbooks at CES in January. The company is probbaly best known for selling cheap items including MP3 players, DVD players, and digital picture frames that might not exactly live up to the high quality standards of companies like Sony or Apple. But they’re darned cheap. Anyway, I haven’t heard a…

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The Pegatron Vivid mini-laptop has three things that set apart from most netbooks available today. First, it’s based on NVIDIA’s Tegra chipset which bundles an ARM-based CPU with NVIDIA graphics to deliver support for 1080p video playback through HDMI while consuming less power than most Intel Atom based netbooks. Second, the Pegatron Vivid has a built in battery which isn’t…

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Several computer makers were showing off netbook and smartbook prototypes running Google Android at the Computex trade show earlier this month. While the operating system was originally designed for cellphones with small screens and relatively slow processors, Google Android can be tweaked to play well with larger displays, and a decent array of processors. And according to at least two…

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Taiwanese computer maker Compal’s KTV00 is an interesting looking netbook with a wide, Dell Inspiron Mini 10-like touchpad  with integrated mousebuttons. Sascha from Netbook News spotted the mini-laptop at Intel’s booth at Computex last week, and shot a short video which you can find after the break. The demo unit was running Moblin 2.0 beta, a custom version of Linux…

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Computer Maker Sparkle is living up to its name with its latest home theater PC, a shiny little number based on the NVIDIA ION platform which bundles a dual core Intel Atom 330 CPU with an NVIDIA GeForce 9400M CPU. The Sparkle Cuti n30 is a modular system that comes in several parts. You can pick up just the core…

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The Clevo M811L, which was on display at Computex last week is a WiMAX capable netbook with a rather boxy looking design, a 10 inch screen, and a nice wide keyboard and touchpad (which unfortunately has buttons located on the left and right sides rather than below the touchpad). Sascha from Netbook News got a closer look at the M811L…

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I spoke with Sascha from Netbook News the other day, and he told me that even though the Computex trade show wrapped up on Friday, he’s still got more than a dozen videos to process and post on the web site. One of the latest shows a nice looking netbook from J&W called the Minix 811. This 10.2 inch netbook…

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The NorhTech Gecko Edubook is a cheap, somewhat modular netbook that runs on AA batteries. The netbook first hit our radar in early May, but the folks behind the project have posted some updated information, as well as a nice little surprise: You can order one today for $199 if you’re willing to pay for shipping from Thailand. In a…

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The Forsa Poshbook is an unusual netbook/notebook hybrid that will come in two versions. You’ll be able to grab a model with an Intel Atom processor that’s more of a netbook style device, presumably with a low cost version of Windows XP or Windows 7. Or you can spring for a more capable notebook version with an Intel CULV processor….

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Pixel Qi founder Mary Lou Jepsen has been reading a handful of tech blogs including Engadget and MobileRead to see what people are saying about those sexy new 3qi displays she’s been showing off for the last few days. And in an interview with TechVideoBlog, Jepsen answered some of the questions left by commenters on those blogs. Here are a…

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Computer maker Lengda introduced two little laptops at Computex last week. One is a standard looking netbook called the Lengda X10K. It has a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 CPU, a 10.1 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel screen, a couple USB ports, VGA output, and an Ethernet cable. But there are a few things that make the X10K stand out. First,…

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Tired of seeing new products from Computex that actually have a shot in hell of showing up on store shelves one day? Chip maker Freescale has a few concept designs to show you for devices that may never see the light of day. But at least they show some outside the box thinking on Freescale’s part. All six concepts are…

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