It looks like Asus is not planning to kill its Linux Eee PC models for northern Europe as I reported yesterday. Some reports had quoted an Asus spokesperson as saying that the company would not be offering its custom version of Xandros Linux on Eee PCs in Denmark and certain other northen European countries. But […]
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LG X110 available at Future Shop in Canada
The LG X110 netbook may not be available in the US, but that doesn’t mean you can’t find one near the US. Canadian electronics retail Future Shop is selling the netbook for $480, or just under $400 US. Unfortunately it doesn’t look like the store ships to zip codes south of the border. But if […]
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Asus to eliminate Linux Eee PC option in parts of Europe
So it turns out that if you want to sell a computer with a custom operating system in multiple countries, you have to take the initiative of translating the menus and dialogs yourself. And that’s apparently turning out to be a bit of a chore for Asus. So the company has decided not to offer […]
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Clevo to introduce 4 netbooks in March
Taiwanese notebook maker Clevo will apparently introduce a whole slew of notebooks at CeBIT in Germany in March, including three netbooks powered by Intel Atom processors and sporting 7 to 10 inch displays. The folks at the Notebook Review forums have the details, but here are some of the highlights: The Clevo TN70xM is a […]
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NVIDIA unveils ION graphics platform for netbooks
NVIDIA has unveiled a new netbook platform that combines an NVIDIA GeForce 9400M GPU with an Intel Atom CPU to dramatically boost graphics performance on low power machines like netbooks and nettops. We first heard that NVIDIA was working on something like this a week and a half ago, and now the company says machines […]
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Tyra Banks to promote a netbook you’ve never heard of
It’s been a while since I’v seen anybody get excited about a netbook with a VIA C7-M processor. But tomorrow “Doctor Gadget” will be promoting the Seamless Notebook on the Tyra Banks Show. The Seamless notebook is a 10.2 inch netbook with a 1024 x 600 pixel display, a 120GB hard drive, 1GB of RAM, […]
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Dell Inspiron Mini 12 now available with Windows XP or Ubuntu Linux
Dell has begun offering the Inspiron Mini 12 mini-laptop with Windows XP as an option. When Dell launched the not-quite-a-netbook a few months back, it was only available with Windows Vista. Now you can pick up an Ubuntu model with a starting price of $499 or a version running either Windows XP Home Edition or […]
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Sharp pulls the plug on Zaurus PDA line
Long before the OLPC XO Laptop was just a twinkle in Nicholas Negroponte’s eye, Sharp was putting out tiny clamshell devices running Linux that were even capable of running some desktop apps with a little elbow grease. Around a year ago Sharp announced that it would be killing off the Sharp Zaurus line of PDAs/mini-computers. […]
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Lenovo IdeaPad S9e with 9 inch display on sale in Germany
The Lenovo IdeaPad S9 is pretty much the same computer as the Lenovo IdePad S10. Except it has an 8.9 inch display instead of a 10 inch display, and it’s a bit cheaper. Lenovo has said it has no plans to sell the S9 in the US, but you can already pick up a Lenovo […]
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Another Apple netbook rumor rears its ugly head
With MacWorld just a few weeks away, folks are coming out of the woodwork with predictions that Apple will launch a netbook or something very much like it in January. This week’s prediction comes from Technology Business Research analyst Ezra Gottheil. He thinks Apple will release a machine that looks like a netbook (or maybe […]