The Toshiba NB520 netbook is now shipping in the UK and Germany, and the folks at British site TechRadar have posted a short review of the mini-laptop. The netbook’s claim to fame is the build-in harman/kardon speakers, and TechRadar reports they sound surprisingly good — although the speakers are on the palm rest, so you might muffle the sound a…

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The Toshiba NB550D netbook isn’t expected to ship in the US, but Nicole at Netbook News managed to pick one up in Taiwan. The little laptop is one of the first computers to ship with an AMD C-50 dual core processor and Radeon HD 6250 graphics, but that’s not its only claim to fame. It also has Harman Kardon speakers…

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Yesterday we reported on the Toshiba NB520, a new 10 inch netbook with a dual core Intel Atom N550 processor and Harmon Kardon stereo speakers. But it looks like the NB520 isn’t the only new netbook from Toshiba. The company has also introduced the NB500, which features a similar design, but more wallet-friendly features. The Toshiba NB500 has the same…

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Toshiba has unveiled its latest 10 inch netbook, and it sports a dual core processor and better speakers than your average netbook. The Toshiba NB520 has a 1.5GHz Intel Atom N550 dual core processor, 1GB of DDR3 memory, a 250GB hard drive with a shock-absorbing system, and runs Windows 7 Starter Edition. What sets the NB520 apart from the crowd…

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There’s no shortage of portable speaker sets designed for laptops, because let’s face it — most netbooks have pretty lousy built in speakers. There’s not really that much setting Dell’s new PS511 USB Sound Bar apart from the crowd aside from the fact that it’s clearly designed with Dell netbooks in mind, blending quite nicely into the top of the…

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OK, technically I don’t think any laptop maker would advise you to rip apart your computer, cut the speaker cable, remove the tiny built in speakers and repalce them with another tiny but higher quality speaker. But if you’re comfortable doing those things, a member of the Sammy Netbook forums has shown that it’s possible. He picked up a set…

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