There’s been a lot of specualation over the last year or two about how low cost, mini-laptops or “netbooks” would affect the computer industry. But one unintended casualty of the surge in netbook popularity was the owner of the netbooks.com web domain. Once upon a time, “netbooks” may have seemed like a reasonable name for […]
Asus Eee PC 1005HA vs. Eee PC 1000H – Photos
The Asus Eee PC 1005HA is the second laptop in the Asus “Seashell” series, with a design that Asus officials claim is inspired by seashells. The first was the Eee PC 1008HA, which was a thin and light netbook weighing just 2.4 pounds and measuring an inch thick. The 1005HA (which has a higher capacity, […]
First look at the Lenovo Ideapad S12 with NVIDIA ION
Lenovo announced its upcoming IdeaPad S12 thin and light notebook with a 12 inch screen last month. But while the folks at Laptop Magazine and GottaBeMobile got to spend soem time with pre-production units, those models had integrated graphics, not the NVIDIA ION platform which bundles an Intel Atom CPU with NVIDIA graphics to offer […]
Microsoft introduces a wireless mouse for netbooks… or laptops
Microsoft has introduced a new travel mouse which it’s marketing toward netbook users. Really, the Microsoft Mobile Mouse 4000 is basically just a wireless travel mouse, Â which is nothing new. Companies have been putting out tiny, portable pointing devices for use on the road for years. But I can’t really blame Microsoft for targeting their […]
Corel introduces “netbook-ready” home office suite
ThinkFree isn’t the only company promising that it’s suite of office tools will play well with netbooks. Corel, a company that’s probably best known for its WordPerfect and Paint Shop applications, has introduced a new version of Home Office, which the company says is “netbook-ready.” Of course, netbooks are really just little laptops, so the […]
Dell Inspiron Mini 9 hack: Adding a fingerprint scanner
There are plenty of ways to keep the data on your computer secure. You could add a password to the login screen, encrypt the data on your hard drive, or carry your computer around in a briefcase handcuffed to your wrist and hope that nobody with a hacksaw is coming to get you. Or you […]
Huawei netbook with UMTS 3G support looks familiar…
Computer maker Huawei is showing off a 10 inch netbook at the CommunicAsia trade show. The computer uses an Intel Atom CPU, has 1GB of RAM and a 160GB hard drive. It also has an integrated UMTS wireless broadband modem. But the other striking thing about this netbook is that it looks kind of familiar. […]
NVIDIA: Windows CE is better than Android for Tegra smartbooks
NVIDIA’s Tegra platform combines a low power ARM-based processor with NVIDIA graphics to power ultraportable devices capable of displaying 1080p video over HDMI while using very little power. But ARM processors, which are much more common in cellphones than laptops these days, don’t run Windows. Or rather, Microsoft hasn’t ported Windows XP, Vista, or 7 […]
aaSNES1 case mod finished, filmed, and posted on eBay
Last week we told you about the aaSNES1, a hack which involved taking the guts of an Acer Aspire One netbook and pack them into a Super Nintendo case to create a unique and arguably unattractive but incredibly geeky desktop computer. Just to make things a bit more interesting, the folks behind this hack also […]
Pegatron’s NVIDIA Tegra-powered Vivid netbook – Video
The Pegatron Vivid mini-laptop has three things that set apart from most netbooks available today. First, it’s based on NVIDIA’s Tegra chipset which bundles an ARM-based CPU with NVIDIA graphics to deliver support for 1080p video playback through HDMI while consuming less power than most Intel Atom based netbooks. Second, the Pegatron Vivid has a […]