Here are a few stories I came across this weekend about the companies that make our beloved mini-laptops. Asus to layoff up to 500 employees Earlier this year Asus announced plans to layoff several hundred workers as part of an effort to save money and restructure the business. While those layoffs were delayed a bit, […]
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A closer look at the Taiwan Mobile W101
You know that unidentified netbook that our friend Sascha spotted at CeBIT last week? It turns out it’s been identified. It looks like this slim netbook is the Taiwan Mobile W101 we heard about last week. The Taiwanese wireless carrier is selling the W101 for 180 Euros when you sign up for a 36 month […]
Is Apple working on a touchscreen netbook for 2009?
Pundits have been insisting for months that Apple has to produce a netbook. At a time when overall computer sales are shrinking, netbook shipments are growing. Budget machines look awfully attractive in the midst of a recession. But Apple has never been known for making budget machines. In fact, quite the opposite. And so those […]
Unidentified netbook prototype shows up at CeBIT – Video
Linpus is probably best known as the group that makes the Linpus Linux Lite operating system found on the Acer Aspire One netbook. But the copany had another netbook running the operating system on display at CeBIT last week. Sascha from Netbook News.de checked out the unnamed prototype and posted a video which you can […]
Sony to develop a netbook… eventually
Evidence that Sony plans to launch a netbook continues to mount. Earlier today DigiTimes mentioned that OEM PC maker Quanta would soon be building netbooks for Toshiba and Sony. And now Laptop Magazine has received confirmation from a Sony executive that the company will be releasing a low cost ultraportable. And that’s about it for […]
Quanta: Netbooks are hurting our bottom line
While AMD’s marketing department is busy making up excuses for why the company is staying out of the netbook game, OEM PC maker Quanta is being a bit more honest. Quanta does make netbooks. In fact, the company shipped 3.1 million notebooks in August, which is about 200,000 more computers than during the same month […]