In case you missed the memo, today’s Earth Day. While that doesn’t mean you should totally ignore the environment the other 364 days of the year, now might be a good time to look around the house and find old gadgets that you were thinking of chucking in the trash and finding a better way to dispose of them. Many…

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It’s only been a few days since Apple launched the iPad 2, but analysts say the company may have sold as many as half a million units — and good luck finding any in stock at a retail store. Ship date on the Apple web site have also been quickly pushed back so that any new orders will ship in…

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It’s been pretty easy to snag a touchscreen display that you can slap in a 9 or 10 inch netbook for the past few years, thanks to eBay. But these touch panels have tended to be inexpensive resistive touchscreens, requiring a stylus or fingertip for input and typically recognizing only one input at a time. Now the folks at Netbook…

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When I spotted the LimePC at CES in January, I was told that this little netbook with a small screen, tiny keyboard and touchpad, and ARM-based Freescale CPU would sell for around $199 if and when it hit the the streets in the US. And while it’s not the most impressive mini-laptop I’ve ever tried, it’s hard to argue with…

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Samsung doesn’t officially sell a 9 cell battery for the NC10 netbook. But you can pick up some third party 9 cell batteries on eBay for just under $100. While third party batteries can be flaky sometimes, often providing less run time than you’d expect or dying altogether shortly after your purchase, the folks at UMPC Fever have run some…

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The Samsung NC10 netbook already gets better battery life than most other mini-laptops on the market, thanks to a 6 cell battery and excellent power management features. But if 7 hours of run time isn’t enough for you, an eBay seller in Hong Kong is selling 9 cell, 7800mAh batteries for the Samsung NC10. The extended battery will set you…

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This week news broke that Psion, the company that got a trademark on the term “netbook” more than 10 years ago has apparently decided to begin enforcing that trademark. Never mind the fact that Psion hasn’t released a new machine under the netbook name in 8 years, and the fact that Intel has been throwing the word around since 2007….

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An eBay seller is accepting preorders for a $96 solderless Acer Aspire One touchscreen kit. While that’s not exactly cheap when you consider the fact that you can pick up an Aspire One netbook for around $300, the fact that you won’t need to pull out the old soldering gun makes the price a bit more attractive. This isn’t the…

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One of the coolest things about the tiny Eee PC is that it’s extraordinarily hackable. You wouldn’t think you could fit so much junk inside of its lilliputian case, but hundreds of people have added touchscrens, Bluetooth, additional memory, and other components to their Eee PC units. If you’re not an expert with a soldering iron, or if you’ve got…

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Want an Eee PC 900 but don’t want to wait until May 12th for Asus to begin selling the laptop in the US? There’s always eBay. As AsusEeeBlog points out, the updated Eee PC is already showing up on the auction site.It looks like you should be able to pick one up for around $650, plus a hefty shipping fee…

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Want to get a bit more battery life out of your Eee PC? The current generation of batteries come in 4400 and 5200 mAh varieties, which tend to die after 2-3 hours of use. Asus plans to sell a 6-cell, 7800 mAh extended battery soon, which should give you a bit more power. But if you don’t feel like waiting…

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