Asus hasn’t started shipping the Eee PC X101 netbook in the US yet, but our friends at Eee PC.it in Italy got their hands on one the $200 mini-notebook powered by a 1.33 GHz Intel Atom N435 processor and MeeGo Linux operating system. They’ve posted a detailed reivew, along with a few videos that include English subtitles. Here’s the short…

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Computer maker Asus is starting to offer Eee PC notebooks with Ubuntu Linux around the globe. Last week an Eee PC 1215P notebook with a 12.1 inch display and Intel Atom N570 dual core processor went on sale in Italy with Ubuntu as its operating system instead of Windows 7. Now you can also pick up a 10 inch Eee…

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[/caption] Last month computer maker Asus promised to begin offering netbooks and notebooks with Ubuntu Linux instead of Microsoft Windows. Now it looks like the company is beginning to follow through on that promise. Eee PC.it spotted a listing for an Eee PC laptop running Ubuntu at an Italian retail site. The notebook is an Asus Eee PC 1215P. It…

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The Asus Eee Pad Transformer tablet has been available around the globe for a few months, and it’s selling like hotcakes due to the low starting price of $399 for a WiFi-only 16GB model. Now Asus is getting ready to launch a new model which gives you a reason to pay extra: it has an integrated 3G radio. Notebook Italia…

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Samsung has begun offering a new netbook in Italy called the Samsung NS310. First spotted at CES in January, the new model bears a pretty strong resemblance to the Samsung N310 Go netbook which was discontinued a few years back. It features a similar colorful case design and edge-to-edge glass display, although the new model appears to have a smooth…

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The Acer Aspire One Happy is a colorful netbook which stands out from the crowd pretty much exclusively due to a bright lid. But Acer is updating the Happy with a new design featuring a sort of water ripple pattern on the lid, yellow, orange, blue, and pink colors, and the latest netbook specs including a 1.66 GHz Intel Atom N570…

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Hannspree tablets haven’t really gained much traction in the US, but they keep showing up in Europe. Now the folks at Notebook Italia have spotted a Hannspree tablet roadmap showing the company’s tablet plans for this year. Right now Hannspree is offering a 10 inch model with a 1024 x 600 pixel display and NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor. Soon a…

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Asus has introduced a new version of the Eee PC T101MT convertible tablet. This 10 inch netbook with a touchscreen display that allows you to use the computer in slate mode has been around almost a year. But at launch it featured a 1.66 GHz Intel Atom N450 single core processor. The new version of the Eee PC T101MT will…

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The Acer Iconia Tab A500 is a 10 inch tablet which Acer has always said would run Google Android 3.0 Honeycomb one day. But for the past few months the company has been showing off the tablet with Google Android 2.x instead. Today the folks at Notebook Italia got a first look at the updated version of the tablet, complete…

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The Samsung NC210 is one of the latest mini-laptops from Samsung. It features a 1.5 GHz Intel Atom N550 dual core processor, 802.11b/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth 3.0 and has a 48Whr cell battery. Samsung quietly unveiled the netbook at CES in January, and now the folks at Netbook News.it have managed to get their hands on a Samsung NC210 and they’ve…

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Sony introduced the Vaio YB series 11.6 inch laptop with an AMD E-350 Zacate processor last month, and the laptop is now available for around $550 in the US. Now it looks like Sony is offering a variation on the theme in Italy. The Sony Vaio YA looks virtually identical to the YB, but it has an Intel processor instead…

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The folks at Notebook Italia spotted two new 10 inch netbooks from Olivetti at a trade show in Milan last week. For the most part, the two machines are pretty much identical. The main difference is that the Olivetti Olibook Net104 has a 6 cell battery while the Olibook M1030 has a 3 cell, 2200mAh battery. Both machines feature 10…

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