Just a year after the concept of the netbook was born, there are dozens, if not hundreds of netbooks to choose from. And to be perfectly honest, there aren’t a ton of things setting many of these models apart. Timothy Brown at VIA wrote in this morning to let me know about a netbook that […]
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Windows 7 on the HP 2133 Mini-Note
Windows 7 won’t be officially released to consumers until 2009 or 2010, but with early developer builds making the rounds, we’ve seen that the operating system already runs pretty well on low powered computers like the Asus Eee PC 1000H and the MSI Wind. But those are netbooks with the Intel Atom CPU. How does […]
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VIA loses HP Mini contract, focuses on developing world
VIA has apparently confirmed that the next generation HP Mini-Note will not use VIA processors. HP is expected to launch a new netbook called the HP Mini 1000 this week (possibly as soon as Wednesday), and from what I can tell, it will have a 10 inch display, a cheap plastic case (unlike the sturdy […]
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Touchmate intros PC210 netbook
Computer maker Touchmate showed off a new 10 inch netbook at the Hong Kong Electronics Fair this week. The Touchmate PC210 stuff features a 10.2 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display, 1GB of RAM, and a 120GB hard drive. The computer sports 802.11a/b/g WiFi. The support for 802.11a sets it apart from other netbooks, but […]
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Eltrinex MobilePC: Czech netbook with 320GB HDD
Czech electronics makers Eltrinex have released a mini-notebook sporting a 1.6GHz VIA C7-M CPU, a 10.2 inch display, 1GB of RAM and a whole lot of storage capacity. The Eltrinex MobilePC has a 320GB hard drive, which is not only larger than the hard drives you find in most netbooks, its larger than the hard […]
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HP to maker cheaper Mini-Note
The HP 2133 Mini-Note is probably the most professional looking low-cost mini-laptop on the market today. It’s got an attractive aluminum case, a shockingly high resolution 1280 x 768 pixel, 8.9 inch display, and a nearly full sized keyboard. But HP has stretched the definition of low-cost to some degree, with some versions of the […]