Yesterday ViewSonic introduced a whole slew of new products including a handful of nettops and a pocketful of netbooks. And Lars from Netbook News got to spend some hands-on time with the new ViewSonic VNB101 netbooks, which actually look pretty nice. Well, aside from the keyboards anyway. Spec-wise, the VNB101 is pretty much par for […]
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Asus launches Eee PC 1004DN with optical drive in Taiwan
Asus has finally begun shipping the Eee PC 1004DN netbook that it first showed off at CES in January. The only catch is that this netbook isn’t available outside of Taiwan yet. If you do happen to be in Taiwan, you can pick it up for the equivalent of about $608 from PC Home. There […]
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Dell Inspiron Mini 9 resurrected… for a few days
The Dell Inspiron Mini 9 may have had a funky keyboard without any Fn keys, but some folks really preferred this 9 inch netbook to the 10 inch models that replaced it. And so it was kind of a sad day when Dell unceremoniously pulled the Mini 9 from its netbook lineup. The move came […]
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HP’s business-class Mini 5101 netbook reviewed, twice
I’m hoping to get my hands on an HP Mini 5101 review unit in the next few weeks. But in the meantime, Laptop Magazine and PC Magazine have each published detailed reviews of this business class mini-laptop. The Mini 5101 is HP’s follow-up to the popular HP Mini 2140. Like its predecessor, the Mini 5101 […]
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Financial results: Cheap netbooks hurting Microsoft, but not Apple
Two interesting bits of financial/market share news today: Microsoft reported its first annual revenue decline ever. Apple has 91% market share for personal computers in the US costing more than $1000. What do these two things have in common? In my world, netbooks. Look at it this way. There are a number of reasons Microsoft […]
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Hauppauge, MaxLinear to produce TV tuners for netbooks
Semiconductor company MaxLinear is teaming up with Hauppauge Digital, a company that makes TV tuners for computers to produce… a TV tuner for computers. But what sets the new MxL5007T apart is the fact that it’s a minicard designed specifically for netbooks and UMPCs. The TV tuner can pick up ATSC TV signals (that’s over-the-air […]
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Gateway clones the Acer AspireRevo nettop, calls it the QX2800
Over the past few years, computer maker Acer has acquired a number of smaller companies including Gateway and Packard Bell. But rather than killing off those brand names and combining those companies’ products and technology with its own, Acer has continued to pump out computers under the Gateway and Packard bell brand names. And that […]
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Viewsonic introduces line of ION powered nettops
Viewsonic, a company best known for making LCD displays, has also dipped its toe into the netbook space. And now the company is introducing its first nettops, or low power desktop computers. The Viewsonic VOT 130 is a pretty typical nettop with an Atom N270 CPU, GMA950 graphics, up to 2GB of RAM, and a […]
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Sony: Netbooks are now a legitimate product category
Over the past year or two, I’d kind of gotten used to writing sentences like “Apple and Sony are the only two major PC makers without an entry in the netbook category.” But Sony had to go and change that formula earlier this month with the introduction of the Sony Vaio Mini W. Sure, Sony […]
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NEC VersaPro VS-7 overpriced netbook reviewed
The NEC VersaPro VS-7 blurs the lines between a typical netbook and a higher end ultraportable. On the one hand, it’s thin and light like a netbook, weighing just 1.6 pounds and measuring 0.6 inches thick. It also has a low power 1.84GHz Intel Atom Z540 processor. On the other hand, Akihabara News reports that […]