Like so many tablets that have hit retail shelves this year, the Motorola XOOM launched in a slightly unfinished state. Updates have been rolling out, of course. Back in July a software update allowed owners of the Motorola XOOM to finally make use of the tablet’s microSD card expansion slot. Around the same time, a key hardware update surfaced as the…

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The Lenovo ThinkPad X120e is a business class thin and light laptop with an 11.6 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display and an AMD E-350 dual core processor. As YouTube user wussyib discovered, it’s also relatively easy to upgrade. It might not be as easy to remove the back panel on the X120e as on the HP Pavilion dm1z (which…

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The HP Mini 210 HD is an interesting 10 inch netbook for a couple of reasons. It’s thin and light, and has an interesting case design with a single sheet of plastic over the lid and a matching colored sheet of plastic on the base of the computer. And the laptop has a 1366 x 768 pixel high resolution display,…

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The Asus Eee PC 1201N is a notebook with a 12.1 inch display, a dual core processor and NVIDIA ION graphics. On the base of the laptop there’s an access panel that you can open by removing a couple of screws to upgrade the RAM. But if you want to perform a more serious upgrade, like say, replacing the hard…

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Thought you already knew everything there was to know about the Nokia Booklet 3G? Here’s a few tidbits that I learned today, courtesy of Tnkgrl, who got to spend a little hands-on time with the laptop recently. First up, the laptop display can be folded down to a nearly 180 degree angle, as you can see from the image above….

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Netbooks aren’t known for being powerhouses. In fact, they’re kind of known for being the opposite: Affordable, portable, and generally underpowered when compared to larger machines. But there are a few things you can do to give netbooks a bit of a speed or performance boost. And Maximum PC has put together a nice little list. Most of the items…

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13The Sony Vaio W is a nice looking netbook with one feature that really sets it apart from most other mini-laptops on the market: a higher resolution, 10.1 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display. The problem is that the netbook’s 1.66GHz Intel Atom N280 CPU and integrated graphics have to work a bit harder to pump out graphics to every…

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Active Media produces a line of solid state disks designed to fit in a handful of computers including the Asus Eee PC 901 and Dell Inspiron Mini 9 netbooks. The SSDs come in 16GB, 32GB and 64GB sizes, and with read/write speeds ranging from 40MB/sec read, 15MB/sec write to 155MB/sec read, 100MB/sec write depending on the computer and SSD model….

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Active Media has introduced a series of solid state disks designed for Asus Eee PC netbooks. The  SSDs come in sizes ranging from 16GB to 64Gb and should work with Eee PC 900, 900A, 901, or S101 series netbooks. The Active Media SaberTooth-S SSDs are available in 16GB and 32GB sizes and have read speeds of up to 90MB/s and…

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Buffalo has been selling 32GB and 64GB solid state disks that you can use to replace the low capacity disks that come with netbooks like the Asus Eee PC 901 for a while. Now the company is going a step further by offering a USB enclosure for its line of Eee PC 901 SSDs. The idea is that you can…

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Not happy with the 4GB, 12GB, or 16GB solid state storage that comes with your Eee PC? You could upgrade it yourself. Or if you live in Taiwan, you can pay Asus the equivalent of about $43 US to do it for you. It looks like the program is only for the Eee PC 901 at the moment. And you…

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The MSI Wind U120 is a lot like the original  MSI Wind U100. It ships with Windows XP, a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 CPU, and 1GB of RAM. But while the Wind U100 accepts up to 2GB of RAM, it turns out there’s no easy way to upgrade the RAM in the newer model. I’ve seen several different sets of…

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