The global COVID-19 vaccination rollout is underway, but so is the spread of new, more contagious variants of disease. So it’s unclear when things will get back to “normal,” whatever that means. But one thing seems pretty clear at this point: June is probably too soon to hold an international trade show that typically brings […]
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Computex 2020 is cancelled due to COVID-19 concerns
The world’s largest computer show won’t take place at all this year. In March, the organizers of the annual Computex trade show announced that this year’s event would be postponed from June until September in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now TAITRA has announced that the show won’t go on at all in 2020. Computex […]
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Computex 2020 postponed from June until September (coronavirus)
TAITRA, the organization that puts on the annual Computex computer show in Taiwan, has postponed that this year’s event will be rescheduled. Originally slated for June 2 – 6, the new plan is to hold Computex 2020 from September 28 – 30. According to TAITRA, the decision was made in response to the impact of […]
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Intel Apollo Lake chips to offer 30 percent performance boost over Braswell
Intel’s Apollo Lake processors are set to hit the streets in the second half of 2016. They’re low-power, low-cost chips aimed at laptops, 2-in-1 tablets, and some desktop computers, and they’re the follow-up to the Intel “Braswell” processors we’ve been seeing over the past year in devices like Chromebooks, cheap Windows laptops, and mini-desktops. So what’s […]
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AbleCom nettop looks like one big heat sink
Ablecom Technology plans to showcase the HEC-13 Intel Atom powered nettop at Computex next week. Spec-wise, this little desktop PC looks like standard fare. It has a 1.66GHz Intel Atom D510 dual core processor, integrated Intel GMA 3150 graphics, and up to 2GB of memory, and a 2.5 inch hard drive bay. But design-wise it’s… […]
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Asus Eee PC 1008HA Shell, other ultrathin laptops coming in June
Asus may have unveiled the Eee PC 1008A Shell netbook at CeBIT in March, but according to DigiTimes, the mini-laptop will be making the rounds again at Computex in Taiwan in June. In other words, it doesn’t sound like this netbook will be widely available before June, despite the fact that we’ve already spotted it […]
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Computex 2009 will be biggest yet, thanks to netbooks
Sure CES is less than a month away and I suspect we’ll see a lot of new and existing netbooks on display on that show floor. But one of the biggest events for computer makers every year is the Computex trade show in Taiwan. Despite the down economy, the organizers say they’ve booked 1800 companies […]
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Roundup of VIA powered netbooks from Computex
Eee PC News.de has a nice little pictorial showing about 20 mini-notebooks that were on display at Computex. What do they all have in common? They’re small, light weight, cheap, and they’re powered by the VIA C7-M CPU. If you want an up-close like at the Airis Kira, Great Wall A81, Ngai Lik 8010A, CZC […]
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Eee PC 901 available now — in Taiwan
While most of us will have to wait a little while to get our hands on the new Eee PC 901, tech journalists and bloggers who are in Taipei for Computex can just wander down the street and pick one up. Well, maybe it’s not quite that easy. Joanna Stern from Laptop Magazine says she […]
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Gigabyte M912 running Ubuntu Netbook Remix – Video
We already knew the Gigabyte M912 ultraportable tablet would run Windows Vista instead of XP. But if you look closely that this hands-on video from Laptop Magazine, you can see that it’s also capable of running Ubuntu. And not just any old Ubuntu. That looks to me like Ubuntu Netbook Remix, the new version of […]