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. […]
VIA will offer HD graphics for netbooks too
NVIDIA isn’t the only company promising to bring HD graphics to netbooks. VIA has announced the new VIA Trinity platform which puts together a VIA Nano or VIA C7 CPU with a VIA integrated Media System Processor and and onboard S3 Graphics chip. Of course, VIA has been pairing its CPUs with S3 GPUs for […]
Reports of Linux Eee PC’s European demise were exaggerated
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 […]
Hackintosh Mini compatibility chart
Want to know how the MSi Wind U100, Lenovo IdeaPad S10, HP 2133 Mini0-Note, or Gigabyte M912 handle OS X? Boing Boing Gadget has put together a chart showing how well 9 of the most popular netbooks run the officially unsupported operating system. While hackers have been cramming OS X onto netbooks for months, the […]