Hot on the heels of the pink Samsung NC10, I introduce the light blue model. Notebook Italia reports that Samsung will soon introduce a power blue version of its popular netbook. Other than the new color, there’s nothing particularly distinctive about this new model. It will sport the same 10.2 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel […]
January 2009
Dell Inspiron Mini 9 display bests Macbook Pro in color accuracy
While plenty of folks will try to tell you that mini-laptops like the Dell Inspiron Mini 9 are only good for some light web browsing (which has led to the popularity of the term “netbook”), the truth is that these little machines can come in handy in a variety of situations. As a freelance radio […]
Report: Netbook sales could top 139 million in 2013
Research firm ABI put out a report this week that estimates that netbook shipments could reach 35 million units this year, and as many as 139 million in 2013. While there’s no doubt that netbooks are the fastest growing segment of the cmputer industry right now, it seems a bit strange to be making predicitons […]
Kuki Linux: Custom distro for the Acer Aspire One
Kuki Linux is a new custom Linux distribution designed to run on Acer Aspire One laptops. Like Linux4One, which is also an Aspire One-specific distro, Kuki Linux is based on Ubuntu. But there are a few things that make Kuki special. First up, the operating system is small. The disc image is only about 400MB, […]
CTL 2Go PC convertible early impressions
The folks at CTL were kind enough to send me a 2Go PC convertible netbook/tablet to play with for the next few days. I’ll have a full review soon, but after playing with the computer for a few hours, I wanted to share a few initial thoughts: Con: The keyboard is awfully small and takes […]
HP Mini 6 cell battery available for $153.90
The HP Mini 1000 6 cell battery may be kind of ugly, but it doubles the netbook’s battery life. And as Sascha from Netbook News.de pointed out to me once, it’s on the bottom of the laptop where you’ll never have to look at it. There’s just one problem: Up until recently the 6 cell […]
Moblin v2 Alpha Linux distro for netbooks released
Moblin is a custom Linux distro optimized for netbooks and mobile internet devices or MIDs. Or at least it will be. Right now it’s still a work in progress. But the project is funded by Intel, so there’s plenty of reason to expect big things from Moblin. Yesterday the team behind the operating system announced […]
What to expect from Easy Peasy 2.0 Linux distro
The first version of Easy Peasy, or the operating system formerly known as Ubuntu Eee, was just released a few weeks ago. But developer Jon Ramvi is already looking ahead to version 2.0. Easy Peasy 2.0 will be based on Ubuntu 9.04, which won’t officially be launched until April. But early builds are currently available, […]
Lenovo IdeaPad S10e for $299.95 – Deal of the day
The Lenovo IdeaPad S10 netbook may have a starting price of $349, but you can pick up an IdeaPad S10e from Buy.com for just under $300. The two computers are pretty much the same. They sport a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 CPU, a 10.1 inch 1024 x 600 pixel display, 512MB of RAM, an 80GB […]
You know netbooks have gone mainstream when…
… the ads have almost nothing to do with the product. HP has launched a new TV ad for the HP Mini 1000 that could almost be an ad for a clothing store. Because the commercial shows more than half a dozen outfit changes, but only shows the netbook being advertised for a few seconds. […]