Asus plans to launch its 10 inch tablet-style netbook this year. No, really. Sure, the company first showed off the Eee PC T101 at CES last January. But the device has undergone a bit of minor surgery over the past year, and the new version actually looks pretty slick. Under the hood, the Eee PC […]
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Hands on with the MSI Wind U135 with Moblin Linux – Video
I stopped by the MSI booth this afternoon and got a chance to check out the new MSI Wind U135 netbook running SUSE Linux with the Moblin user interface. This model will begin shipping in February, and Novell says SUSE has been optimized to boot in as little as 30 seconds. While the Moblin interface […]
Hands on with MSI’s dual touchscreen netbook prototype
MSI is showing off a netbook prototype with twin 10 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel touchscreen displays and no physical keyboard. But you can bring up an on-screen keyboard and tap away. What’s interesting is that the keyboard vibrates as you type. It doesn’t quite feel like using a physical keyboard, but it does give […]
Meet the Asus Eee PC 1201NL: NVIDIA ION graphics, Atom N270 CPU
Asus is going all-out on the Eee PC 1201 line at CES. The company has already released the Eee PC 1201N with a dual core Atom 330 processor and NVIDIA ION graphics and the Eee PC 1201HA with an Intel Atom Z520 low power processor and integrated GMA 500 graphics. And I’d already heard about […]
NVIDIA unveils Tegra 2 platform for tablets, smartbooks, and more
NVIDIA has announced the next next generation of its Tegra platform that bundles a low power ARM-based CPU with high performance NVIDIA graphics. The new version will consume less energy than Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chipset while providing 1080p HD video playback capabilities. The processor is an ARM Cortex A9 chip that runs up to 1GHz. Tegra 2 […]
The color eBook readers of CES (so far)
One of the hottest trends at CES so far (or at least the pre-show events I’ve attended this week) is eBook readers. It seems like everybody’s got a handheld device for reading eBooks. Most of them are high contrast black and white jobs with long-lasting batteries and highly viewable displays that are rather slow to […]
Gateway’s latest thin and light has a DVD drive
Gateway has introduced one of the first 11.6 inch thin and light notebooks I’ve seen that has both an Intel CULV processor and a DVD burner. The Gateway EC14D features a dual core Intel Pentium SU4100 processor, 4GB of RAM, and a 320GB hard drive. It packs an 11.6 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display. […]
MSI to offer SUSE/Moblin Linux on the Wind U135 netbook
It looks like Windows 7 Starter Edition won’t be the only OS available for the MSI Wind U135 netbook. Computer World reports that MSI will also offer a new version of SUSE Linux based on Moblin 2.1. Moblin offers a framework for a light weight Linux distribution optimized for netbooks with Intel Atom processors. It […]
First look at the Fujitsu MH380, UH900 – Video
I got a chance to check out Fujitsu’s new MH380 netbook last night, as well as the company’s higher end, but smaller profile Fujitsu UH900 mini-laptop. Fujitsu introduced the MH380 a few weeks ago. It has an Intel Atom N450 CPU, Windows 7 Starter, and a 10.1 inch, 1366 x 768 HD display. But the […]
Haier is bringing the X220 touchscreen netbook to the US
Consumer electronics maker Haier has been pumping out netbooks for a little while, but so far they haven’t been available in the US. Haier is showing off a few 10 inch laptops at CES this week, and plans to begin launching them int he United States in April. One of the first is the Haier […]