The Eee PC 1015PEM is the 10 inch netbook from Asus with a dual core Atom N550 processor. Physically, the laptop is virtually identical to the Eee PC 1015PED that I’m reviewing, with the same seashell-style case, chiclet keyboard, and matte touchpad. But while the 1015PED has a single core CPU, the Eee PC 1015PEM […]
Archos 32 Internet Tablet review
The Archos 32 Internet Tablet is a handheld device that’s either a portable media player that happens to run Android or a tiny Android tablet that happens to have spruced up multimedia capabilities, depending on how you look at it. In some ways, it’s probably best to think of the Archos 32 as a cheaper […]
ViewSonic ViewPad 10 tablet could come with dual core Atom chip?
ViewSonic’s Viewpad 100 (or Viewpad 10, depending on who you ask), has been getting a bit of attention because it’s one of the first tablet PCs slated to ship with dual boot operating systems, allowing you to run both Windows 7 and Google Android 1.6. But the folks at Netbook News have uncovered a bit […]
Closer look at the Dell 7 inch “Looking Glass” tablet
The other day Dell CEO Michael Dell teased us with a brief glimpse at a new 7 inch tablet that looks like it could be a bit more than just a larger version of the Dell Streak 5 inch Android tablet. While the new model will also run Android, the larger display looks like it […]
Toshiba AC100 attempts to run several Android apps with mixed success – Video
The Toshiba AC100 is a 1.9 pound laptop with an NVIDIA Tegra chip, a 10 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display, and Google Android 2.1. Google doesn’t officially support Android for notebooks, so Toshiba developed some custom software for the device allowing it to work with a touchpad, for instance. Toshiba also ships the AC100 […]
Acer Aspire One D255 dual core netbook reviewed
On the surface, the Acer Aspire One D255 looks nearly identical to every other netbook Acer has released this year. It has the same display, keyboard, and touchpad. but under the hood the Acer Aspire One D255 has something a bit special: a dual core 1.5GHz Intel Atom N550 processor, making this netbook one of […]
Acer Aspire One Happy shows up in Europe for under 330€
The Aspire One Happy is a new 10 inch netbook from Acer with a silly name, bright pastel colors, and possibly an HD video decoder. It’s not available for purchase in the US yet, but several European retailers have posted product pages for the laptop. None seem to make any mention of the HD video […]
OS X crammed onto an HTC Shift tablet
The HTC Shift is a 7 inch tablet that came out a few years too early to be considered a serious contender in the current tablet climate. But spec-wise it still looks pretty good. The tablet has an 800 x 480 pixel touchscreen, an 800MHz Intel A110 CPU, and it was designed to dual boot […]
NVIDIA: Tegra tablets might ship by Christmas… or they might not
NVIDIA has apparently spent more than a billion dollars developing its low power, HD video-capable Tegra chipset. But aside from the Microsoft Zune, there haven’t really been any big name products with Tegra chips. But NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang says he hopes that will change soon, and that the company is hoping some new tablets […]
Netbook Navigator Nav9 Windows 7 tablet reviewed
The folks at Netbook Navigator have been threatening to send me a demo unit of their new 8.9 inch Windows tablet for months. Apparently they decided to send one to the folks at CrunchGear instead, because the site has just published a review of the tablet. The long and short of it is that CrunchGear […]