The Lanyu LY-EB01 eBook is a dirt cheap, 7 inch mini-laptop available in China for under $100. This makes it one of the cheapest netbooks around, but it’s also one of the least powerful, thanks to its 266MHz ARM-based processor. If you have a smartphone, odds are it has a faster CPU than this netbook. […]
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Lanyu’s 7 inch netbook sells for just $97 in China
Chinese company Lanyu is selling what very well may be the cheapest netbook available. At least, it is if you’re willing to stretch your definition of the word netbook slightly. The Lanyu eBook LY-EB01 is a 7 inch clamshell-style device with a QWERTY keyboard and an 800 x 480 pixel display. It has a 266MHz […]
Microsoft pushes Windows Embedded for Smartbooks, ARM-powered devices
Microsoft has no plans to port Windows 7 to run on ARM processors. At least, no official plans. Instead, the company is suggesting that PC makers using ARM-based chips for their netbooks or “smartbooks” go with Windows Embedded CE, which can support devices with ARM, x86, and MIPS based rocessors. IDG’s Dan Nystedt got a […]
NVIDIA: Windows CE is better than Android for Tegra smartbooks
NVIDIA’s Tegra platform combines a low power ARM-based processor with NVIDIA graphics to power ultraportable devices capable of displaying 1080p video over HDMI while using very little power. But ARM processors, which are much more common in cellphones than laptops these days, don’t run Windows. Or rather, Microsoft hasn’t ported Windows XP, Vista, or 7 […]
NVIDIA introduces Tegra powered netbooks running Windows CE
NVIDIA is expanding its Tegra platform, originally designed for touchscreen MIDs, or Mobile Internet Devices, to include netbook-style mini-laptops. Tegra combines an ARM-based processor with an NVIDIA graphics processor to provide high quality graphics on a mobile device while using relatively little power. NVIDIA first dropped a hint that it was working on Tegra netbooks […]
Microsoft not throwing weight behind Windows CE for netbooks
Long before the first Asus Eee PC, OLPC XO Laptop, or even the Psion netbook, there were handheld PCs running DOS and Windows CE. They were popular with a small group of tech enthusiasts in the 90s and the early part of this decade, but they sort of fizzled out long before the netbook craze […]
FirstView netbooks could be headed to the US
Shenzhen FirstView, a Chinese-based company that was showing off a line of 7 to 10 inch mini-laptops running Windows CE and Windows XP at the Hong Kong Electronics Fare a few months back, is apparently hoping to bring some of these machines stateside. The folks at Laptop Magazine happened across a FirstView booth at CES, […]
Original Psion Netbook still available – on eBay
This week news broke that Psion, the company that got a trademark on the term “netbook” more than 10 years ago has apparently decided to begin enforcing that trademark. Never mind the fact that Psion hasn’t released a new machine under the netbook name in 8 years, and the fact that Intel has been throwing […]
Tinybook blurs the netbook/PDA line
F&S International is distributing a netbook-like device with a 7 inch display and a 400MHz ARM-based CPU that runs Windows CE 5.0. I’m always a little reluctant to call Windows CE-powered devices netbooks, since they generally don’t run full desktop software like Firefox 3 or MS Office/OpenOffice.org. But if you’re looking for a device with […]
Will the netbook revolution lead to a rise in Windows CE handhelds?
Liliputing reader John Hogg wrote in to let me know about yet another Windows CE-based mini-computer on the market. UK online retailer Argos is selling a netbook-shaped machine, but instead of Linux or Windows XP it runs Windows CE and comes with a word processor, spreadsheet, windows media player, and 15 language translator. I’m a […]