Yesterday I was griping about how tiny desktop computers (nettops) often lack optical disc drives (although you could almost overlook that thanks to the low price tags and moderate performance offered by these little guys). Today a reader brought a tiny desktop to my attention that addresses that oversight quite nicely — although I’m sure […]
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OpenPeak OpenTablet 7 gets the hands-on treatment… repeatedly
OpenPeak has been showing off press shots of its OpenTablet 7 for a little while, but this week the company actually brought the tablet out to play at the Intel Developer Forum, where a number of tech journalists and bloggers finally got a chance to play with it. You can check out some hands-on impressions […]
Notion Ink Adam tablet could have replaceable battery, comic book store
Notion Ink has posted a few updates about the company’s upcoming Adam tablet. First up, it looks like things are running ahead of schedule and Notion Ink hopes to submit the tablet to the FCC a week early, but it’s still going to be a little while before we can actually purchase the tablet. Here […]
3 new Android tablets from Acer next year?
Acer has been teasing us with tidbits of info about its upcoming tablets for a while — but only tidbits. So far we haven’t seen any concrete details. Now DigiTimes reports that Acer is going all-out in the tablet space in the first quarter of 2011, when the company is expected to launch three different […]
Are PC-like set top boxes the future (and past) of nettops?
I’ve been both baffled and intrigued by nettops for a while. Sure, it’s cool to stuff a fully functional computer into a box about the size of DVD drive. But the only reason I can see for needing your computer to be that small (often while packing high performance graphics and a low power processor) […]
CLEAR pre-launches 4G WiMAX in New York, San Francisco, more cities
While we wait for Verizon to roll out its LTE service, CLEAR is currently the only 4G service provider in the US (CLEAR also offers the backbone of WiMAX services provided by Sprint, Best Buy, and possibly some others). The only problem is that CLEAR is only available in a limited number of cities… for […]
Intel shows off an Atom powered tablet with WiDi wireless display technology
Intel’s WiDi technology (which sounds a bit like “wide eye,” when you pronounce it), is a wireless display technology for streaming video or other content from computer to a big screen TV. To show off the company’s WiDi tech today at the Intel Developer Forum, an Intel rep pulled out a tablet computer with an […]
AMD’s wait and see approach to tablets
AMD was one of the last chip makers to make a play for the netbook space. While Intel and VIA duked it out in the early days of netbooks, AMD stood by the sidelines. Eventually AMD introduced its first Neo line of chips to limited success. This summer the company launched its Nile platform, which […]
NEC launches BL550 netbook with dual core CPU, HD display
NEC is the latest PC maker to get in on the dual core Atom action. The company has just introduced a new netbook in Japan with a 1.5GHz Intel Atom N550 dual core CPU, 2GB of memory and a 320GB hard drive. The NEC LaVie Light BL550 netbook also has a 10.1 inch, 1366 x […]
Gigabyte launches Q1105M ultraportable notebook
Gigabyte is often on the cutting edge of portable computer technology. It was one of the first companies to introduce 9 and 10 inch mini-laptops with Intel Atom processors and touchscreens that you could swivel and use in tablet mode — albeit at rather high, un-netbook-like prices. Now the company has introduced a new 11.6 […]