Samsung is reportedly working on its successor to its popular NC10 netbook. At first blush, the NC10 didn’t look like anything too special. Like many of its competitors, the netbook has a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 CPU, a roomy hard drive, and a 10.2 inch screen. But thanks to excellent build quality, superb battery life, […]
Report: Asus holds 60% of netbook share in Europe
While Acer may be trouncing Asus in terms of global netbook shipments, Asus issued a press release today claiming that the company’s mini-laptops account for 60% of all netbooks sold in Europe. Asus netbooks are doing particularly well in Germany, france, Spain, Italy, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Russia. Asus was the first company to […]
Netbooks are driving down laptop prices
It appears the popularity of netbooks is having an effect on low end computer prices. DigiTimes reports that computer vendors in Taiwan are cutting prices of full sized laptops to make them more competitive with netbooks. Now, we’re not talking about high end gaming rigs here. We’re talking about computers with Celeron or Pentium Dual-Core […]
Touchscreen kit for the Samsung NC10 (and other netbooks)
Next week a new touchscreen kit designed for Samsung NC10 netbooks is expected to hit eBay for about $95. The kit comes from the same folks who brought us a solderless touchscreen kit for the Acer Aspire One. The company also has touchscreen kits for 8.9 inch netbooks including the Asus Eee PC 900/901 and […]
Tinybook blurs the netbook/PDA line
F&S International is distributing a netbook-like device with a 7 inch display and a 400MHz ARM-based CPU that runs Windows CE 5.0. I’m always a little reluctant to call Windows CE-powered devices netbooks, since they generally don’t run full desktop software like Firefox 3 or MS Office/OpenOffice.org. But if you’re looking for a device with […]
Windows 7 on an Eee PC 900 (with a Celeron processor)
We’ve already seen that early builds of Windows 7 run pretty smoothly on netbooks with 1.6GHz Intel Atom processors including the MSI Wind U100, Asus Eee PC 1000H, and others. But what about an older machine like the Asus Eee PC 900 which sports a 900MHz Intel Celeron CPU? It turns out Windows 7 runs […]
Asus Eee Top all-in-one desktop unboxed, reviewed
What do you get if you take the insides of a cheap laptop, shift them around, and put them into a cheap all-in-one desktop computer? That’s what Asus set out to find out when it created the Eee Top, which looks like an iMac and performs like an Eee PC netbook. Like the company’s line […]
Asus Eee PC 1002HA unboxed (from a fancypants box)
You’ve seen the pictures, you’ve seen the reviews. Now it’s time to see the Asus Eee PC 1002HA get unboxed. YouTube user Zeavott has posted a video showing an Eee PC 1002HA netbook emerging from what appears to be a very nice looking case. Unlike previous Eee PC cases, the 1002HA box is sheer black, […]
Dell shipping lower capacity Dell Mini 9 batteries
Update: Looks like this was a false alarm. It appears Dell has quietly started shipping 24.4WHr hour batteries with the Dell Inspiron Mini 9. That wouldn’t be such a big deal if the company hadn’t originally shipped 32WHr batteries. Pretty much all of the review units the company sent to bloggers and journalists before launching […]
XBurst netbook reading list
You know all those stories about the “world’s cheapest netbook” you keep seeing that all seem to point to the same laptop, but with different names? That’s because they’re all produced by the same Chinese company, Exon Technology and distributed worldwide by companies that use a dozen or so different names for the same device. […]