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Hercules banks on ARM chips, Linux for its latest 10 inch netbooks

Hercules has been cranking out Intel Atom powered Windows netbooks for a few years. Now the company is taking another approach, with two new thin and light netbooks powered by ARM-based processors. The Hercules eCafe Slim HD and Hercules eCafe Ex HD are expected to ship in April, for around $229 and $269 respectively. The […]

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Hercules introduces eCafe EC-1000W netbook with Windows 7 Starter

It looks like the question of whether netbook makers will ship machines with the crippled (but cheap) Windows 7 Starter Edition has been resolved. They will. We’ve already learned that the Samsung N130 and N140 netbooks will be available at launch with the stripped down version of Windows 7 instead of the pricier Windows 7 […]