The Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 11 is a thin and light 11.6 inch laptop that blurs the lines in many ways between Lenovo’s consumer laptops and the company’s business-class ThinkPad machines. Like a ThinkPad, the Edge 11 has Lenovo’s TrackPoint system with both a touchpad and a pointing stick in the middle of the keyboard. Like […]
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Another way to make a space-saving laptop
There are a few reasons netbooks took off a few years ago. They’re cheap and they’re portable. But they’re certainly not the only laptop computers that are cheap or portable. If you like the idea of a laptop that can be used comfortably on an airplane tray table but don’t like the idea of using […]
Mini-laptops v Tablets: Smackdown
Coke or Pepsi. PC or Mac. Israel or Palestine. Some questions seem like they’ll never have definitive answers that will satisfy everyone. But if there’s one thing internet commentators seem to agree on, it’s that there may not be room for netbooks and tablets. They’re wrong, of course, but whatever. Anyway, Chippy from UMPC Portal […]
Notebook concept with removable tablet looks a bit… bulky
Multifunction computers that can work as either laptops or tablets are nothing new. PC makers have been pumping them out for the past 10 years or so. But tablets without built-in keyboards are all the rage these days. If you’re the sort of person who likes the idea of a thin tablet for reading a […]
Gateway announces NS notebook series
Gateway is expected to launch 4 new notebooks with Intel Core i-series processors later this month. The Gateway NS series notebooks will have screens ranging in size from 11.6 inches to 15.6 inches, and will come with Core i3, Core i5, and Core i7 mobile processors. The smallest model is the Gateway NS10, which will […]
Chinese company crams an Atom CPU into a 14 inch netbook for some reason
I’ve never been one to say that a netbook needs to have an Intel Atom processor or that every laptop with an Atom CPU is automatically a netbook. But if you define a netbook as small, light, and cheap, it becomes clear that one of the easiest ways to build a system meeting those goals […]