Pegatron is a Taiwanese device manufacturer that builds products for other companies, much the way Foxconn or Wistron does. So when benchmark results for an unannounced Android device called the Pegatron E-Tab 4G show up online, you can be pretty sure that’s not the name this tablet will be sold under. But it certainly looks […]
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Pegatron, Inventec and Foxconn demo ultrabooks with next-gen Intel chips
Taiwanese equipment manfuacturers Pegatron, Inventec, and Foxconn are both showing off new ultrabook models at the Intel Developer Forum this week. The thin and light laptops are some of the first devices we’ve seen to feature Intel’s new Ivy Bridge chips — which aren’t expected to ship until next year. All the companies that have […]
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Rumor: HTC tablet to feature NVIDIA Tegra 2, HD display, Android
There’ve been rumors going around for a little while that smartphone maker HTC wants in on the tablet game, and it makes sense since pretty much every consumer electronics company in the known universe appears to be bringing a tablet to market in the next year or so. Today Digitimes is adding fuel to the […]
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Masterpad tablet runs Windows 7, has an IPS display
While Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says the Windows 7 tablets are coming… a lot of folks are starting to notice that some are already here. Heck, some Windows tablets have been around for 10 years, but those tend to be machines with built-in keyboards and high price tags. But a number of PC vendors in […]
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Pegatron demonstrates Android tablet with custom user interface
Just because a tablet is running Google Android doesn’t mean it has to look like it’s running Android. After all, HTC has made a habit of shipping Android Smartphones with the custom HTC Sense user interface running on top of Android. And now Sascha from Netbook News.de found a tablet prototype that runs Android with […]
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Pegatron’s NVIDIA Tegra powered HTPC does HD video
Who says you need an x86 compatible processor to create a home theater PC? No, seriously, who? I mean, I tend to think of desktop apps like Windows Media Center SageTV, Boxee, or MythTV when I think of media centers… but three out of four of those apps will run on Linux. And you can […]
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The Smartbooks are coming in 2010
There’s been a lot of talk about so-called smartbooks in 2009. These netbook-like mini-laptops have low power ARM-based processors and are designed to get excellent battery life while maintaining a constant connection to the internet via WiFi or a 3G cellular connection. In other words, they’re a cross between a netbook and a smartphone, thus […]
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Lenovo IdeaCentre Q100 unboxed
The Lenovo IdeaCentre Q100 isn’t exactly unique among nettops. This small, low power desktop is basically a rebranded version of a machine built by Pegatron. But the IdeaCentre Q100 is the first iteration of this nettop to show up in the US, which makes it noteworthy. The folks at Nettop Review got their hands on […]
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Pegatron smartbook is thinner, lighter, boxier than the Asus Eee PC 1005HA
Pegatron has been showing off pre-production prototypes of its upcoming smartbook prototype with an ARM processor for a while. But IT Pro Portal has some of the first photos I’ve seen o the prototype hanging out next to the popular Asus Eee PC 1005HA. And in terms of size, there’s no contest: The Pegatron smartbook […]
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That new Lenovo Ideacentre Q100 nettop look awfully familiar
Lenovo dropped a picture and next to no information about an upcoming nettop line in a Twitter post yesterday. All Lenovo gave us was a name, and the fact that the IdeaCentre Q100/Q110 nettops would be some of the thinnest in the world. Since Lenovo refers to the computers as nettops, it’s a safe bet […]