Darren Waters at the BBC is spending the next week tinkering with one of Intel’s Classmate 2 laptop computers. In the video above you can see he’s also spent some time with the OLPC XO Laptop, and he clearly highlights some of the differences between the devices. While both are aimed at developing nations, the […]
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Eee PC 900 to hit France on May 28th
Contrary to earlier reports, it looks like the French version of the Eee PC will be available on May 28th, not April 17th. Blogeee covered a press conference this morning, and here are the highlights: 399 € price May 28th release date France is also getting the full spectrum of colors for the Eee PC […]
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HP 2133 Mini-Note unboxing photos start to appear
I’m still waiting (im)patiently for my HP 2133 Mini-Note to arrive. But as reported, some folks are already getting theirs from friendly UPS delivery people. Engadget got their hands on what seem to be the first unboxing photos to make the rounds. You can check out a complete gallery over at their site. But ther’s […]
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Eee PC 900: It’s not just the screen that’s larger
The main selling point for the Eee PC 900 is that it has a larger, higher resolution display than the Eee PC 701, but fits in the same small case. It turns out that’s not entirely true. The Eee PC 900 is actually a tiny bit bigger than the 701, and it weighs a few […]
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Eee PC 900 to get Atom processor in June?
TechRadar is reporting that Asus could swap out that 900MHz Celeron processor in the Eee PC 900 for a shiny new Atom processor before the end of June. Word on the street is that the Atom processor might not be much speedier than the Celeron processors shipping with the current models. But they are designed […]
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HP 2133 begins shipping… at least for some people
HP’s 2133 Mini-Note laptop was scheduled to begin shipping this week. And it appears that it has… at least for some customers. Yesterday Engadget reported that some folks were getting emails from HP stating that their orders were being pushed back a bit. But some people posted comments in the article saying that they’d received […]
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Another Eee PC touchscreen rumor gets started
Now that the Eee PC 900 is all official like, we know for certain that it does not have a touchscreen display. It’s got a nifty new touchpad that supports two-finger gestures. But you can poke at the screen all you like. All that’ll happen is that you’ll scratch it and possibly break it. But […]
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Asus finally puts out an Eee PC 900 press release
Asus has finally gotten around to putting out an official press release to announce the Eee PC 900. Of course, we already know pretty much everything that’s in the press release at this point, but it’s nice to have confirmation. Here are a few of the more interesting tidbits: Asus says 1 million Eee PCs […]
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Trusted Reviews takes on the Eee PC 900
UK site Trusted Reviews has posted what has to be one of the most thorough reviews of the Eee PC 900 I’ve seen so far. In English anyway. There’s not a ton of new information in the review for anyone who’s been following the progress of the Eee PC 701 and 900 series on this […]
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Kohjinsha offers lilliputian, low cost tablet PC
Have I mentioned how much I’m loving this whole race to the bottom thing? The Asus Eee PC has shown that there’s a huge demand for low cost ultraportables, and the latest company to throw their hat in the ring is Japan’s Kohjinsha, which plans to release not just a tiny laptop, but a tiny […]
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More Eee PC 900 launch dates, plus dissection pictures
Two more bits of Eee PC 900 news to report and then I’m done. Well, until I uncover some other interesting tidbit. First up, while I haven’t seen any hint of a US release date yet, it looks like the Eee PC 900 will be available in France on April 17th. Several sites have reported […]
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Eee PC 900 has 2 separate solid state disks, not just two partitions
Apparently Asus didn’t just divide the storage on the Eee PC 900 into two separate partitions like I’d originally thought. No, they instead have put two separate solid state disks in each unit. Both the Linux and Windows XP models will have 4GB of flash storage soldered to the motherboard, and the Linux version will […]