The Gigabyte Q1105 is an ultraportable notebook with an 11.6 inch display, a slim case design, and an Intel Core 2 duo SU4100 low voltage processor. The folks at Netbook News recently got their hands on one and have posted a detailed review. Here’s the short version: the keyboard is large and easy to type on, but the tiny touchpad…

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Gigabyte is often on the cutting edge of portable computer technology. It was one of the first companies to introduce 9 and 10 inch mini-laptops with Intel Atom processors and touchscreens that you could swivel and use in tablet mode — albeit at rather high, un-netbook-like prices. Now the company has introduced a new 11.6 inch laptop… with specs straight…

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Nettops are tiny desktop PCs with low power processors and low price tags. The general idea is that, like a netbook, these machines use less power than bigger machines and are designed to serve the needs of people who don’t necessarily need a supercomputer in their home office, living room, or wherever else you see fit to put the little…

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The Asus UL20FT is a 3.3 pound laptop with a 12.1 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display. First spotted in May, it looks like the new model should begin shipping next month. Excaliber PC is taking pre-orders for the Asus UL20FT-A1. It’s going for $579, and the store says it should arrive around August 6th, 2010. The new notebook is…

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Intel is set to launch the Atom N550 dual core processor for netbooks and budget thin and light laptops soon. But while the dual core 1.5GHz chip should offer better overall performance than the single Core Atom chips used in most netbooks today, DigiTimes reports it will also cost $11 to $22 more than current Atom chips. And that could…

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Toshiba is readying a new thin and light laptop with an 11.6 inch screen and a low power Intel processor. The Toshiba Satellite T210 measures just 0.7 inches thick at its thinnest point, although it balloons to 1.3″ in the rear thanks to a bulky 6 cell battery. The notebook will ship with Windows 7 Home Premium (64 bit), and…

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For decades, chip makers were racing to develop the fastest, most powerful chips possible. While that race is still underway, it just doesn’t feel as important as it once did — since a relatively sluggish Intel or AMD processor is still plenty fast enough to handle most computing tasks such as web surfing, editing documents, and playing or even editing…

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Tablet PC maker AMtek plans to show off 5 different touchscreen devices at the Computex trade show in Taiwan next week. The devices will run the gamut from low power ARM-based machines through a tablet with a 1.3GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU and Windows 7. Below is a rundown of what we can expect. You can find more photos…

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Intel has just unveiled its plans for the ultra-thin laptop space. The company will have a series of new Celeron, Pentium, and Core i-series chips designed to balance power consumption and performance. At the bottom of the line, there will be a 1GHz Celeron U3400 chip and 1.2GHz Pentium U5400 processor. These will have a total power draw of 17…

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Acer has been showing off 11.6 inch convertible tablet-style notebooks for months. But the company has finally gotten around to issuing a press release and putting up a product page for the Acer Aspire 1825PT. While it’s not available in the US yet, it looks like you can pre-order the notebook in the UK. the Acer spire Timeline 1825PT features…

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Is a nettop still a nettop if it’s small, light, and has a low power processor that’s not an Intel Atom or VIA C7/Nano chip? I’m going to go out on a limb and say yes, as long as it’s reasonably priced — and that puts the new ViewSonic VOT125 right on the border. On the one hand, it looks…

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Spec-wise, the Samsung X170 looks like a great notebook. It’s an ultraportable laptop with an 11.6 inch, display, a 9 hour battery, and an Intel Core 2 Duo SU7300 CULV processor. It has 4GB of memory and 500GB of hard drive space, plus a full-sized keyboard. But there’s something unusual about this particular notebook model. Oh right, it has mouse…

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