The HP Mini 5102 may have just been introduced to the world this morning, but those crazy kids at Laptop Magazine have already published a detailed review (something tells me they managed to get their hands on a demo unit before this morning). The verdict? HP has made one of the best netbooks around even better. Basically the HP Mini…

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The original MSI Wind U115 was an innovative netbook with a hybrid storage model that helped prolong battery life by using a combination of a low power solid state disk for the operating system and a hard drive for additional storage. If you weren’t accessing data on the hard drive, it could power down altogether. But MSI pretty much phased…

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The Sony Vaio X is an incredibly thin and light laptop with an 11. 1 inch HD display, and 2.2 pound weight with an extended battery that ran for nearly 10 hours with WiFi on in a recent review from Laptop Magazine. With a standard battery, you’ll get closer to 3 hours. That falls about 4 hours short of Sony’s…

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One of the questions I get asked most frequently is “which netbook is the best?” The answer is: that depends. It depends on what keyboard you find the most comfortable, and how much value you put on battery life, size, or price. In other words, some folks will be willing to pay less and get a laptop with a 3…

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Every now and again I get tired of typing “1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 CPU, 10.2 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display, Windows XP, 1GB of RAM and 160GB HDD.” And then I stop and think, well at least the Emtec Gdium netbook should be available soon. Emtec’s first foray into the netbook space may look a lot like a typical…

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The other day Laptop Magazine ran the first comprehensive review of the Samsung NC10 that I’ve seen to date. Overall the NC10 performs as you would expect a netbook with a 1.6GHz Intel Atom CPU, a roomy hard drive, and 1GB of RAM to. But the killer feature was the battery. While the netbook has a 6 cell 5200mAh battery,…

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While I’m still waiting patiently for the Lenovo IdeaPad S10 I ordered yesterday to arrive, Joanna Stern at Laptop Magazine got to play with one for about 45 minutes at the IDF conference in San Francisco yesterday. (I’m pretty sure those hands in the picture belong to the Lenovo rep and not Joanna). Her first impressions? The nearly full-sized keyboard…

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