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Looks like anyone wondering what they could possibly do with their old netbook, finally has a solution that is both unusual and useful, assuming security is what they're seeking.
Basically, Colin Adamson took an adjustable stand, some wheels, an Arduino micro-controller and a webcam periscope, plus the required... |
21 December 2011
04:37 GMT |
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Dell might be doing what Acer plans to do, only faster, as its online store has been quietly removing some products, like the Dell Mini line of netbooks.
Yesterday, we heard it mentioned that Acer will reduce its number of product lines by two thirds starting in next year (2012).
Now, it looks like Dell is doing ... |
16 December 2011
04:28 GMT |
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Netbooks went through a spectacular fall in prominence during 2010 and 2011, mostly because tablets and, more recently, ultrabooks, have been stealing all the spotlight, but Acer isn't done with them yet. Acer decided to clearly say that it had no intention of backing out of the netbook market any time soon, o... |
29 November 2011
13:01 GMT |
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Despite the delay of Intel’s mobile Atom Cedar Trail platform for low-power laptops, Acer its getting ready to deploy its army of netbooks using this architecture as an UK retailer has recently listed a new version of the ultra-slim Eee PC X101 that is powered by an Atom N2600 processor.This chip is built using... |
25 November 2011
16:41 GMT |
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Netbooks have not yet been written off as electronics whose time has passed, but some companies are doing more than just considering the prospect, like Samsung.
The time of low-end mobile personal computers, as they are today, may finally be nearing its end, or at least its twilight.
Though netbooks are not at al... |
25 November 2011
12:01 GMT |
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Intel may have delayed the launch of Cedar Trail, but this hasn’t stopped retailers from adding for pre-order netbooks based on these Atom CPUs, such as this Samsung N102S listed by an UK online store.The N102S includes pretty much all the feature that we are used to seeing in netbooks like 1GB of system memory... |
25 November 2011
08:08 GMT |
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Asus pushed its Eee PC 1025C netbook through the offices of FCC at the beginning of October, but despite this early start the Taiwanese company won’t actually be able to ship these devices before Christmas and has delayed them for 2012.The exact release date is not known at this point in time, but according to ... |
25 November 2011
06:01 GMT |
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Amazon just listed a certain netbook at a price that is nothing short of extremely low, or at least close enough that it will show just how much fire such devices still have left in them.
Simply put, Amazon just put up the Acer Aspire on 722 for order, one that features a stronger processor than before.
It isn�... |
24 November 2011
06:00 GMT |
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Netbooks are scarcely mentioned these days, but they are definitely still around, and will continue to be so, as long as there are companies, like ASUS, ready to make more, like a new pair of Eee PCs.
10.1-inch netbooks managed to spread far and wide before tablets started messing with the market share of low-end l... |
18 November 2011
08:10 GMT |
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Once upon a time, when Commodore still sold computers and Apple wasn't the hottest name in tech, there was an operating system that went by the name of AmigaOS, and now a company called Hyperion Entertainment wants to revive these days with a new netbook that will run the OS.A prototype of this laptop is already... |
26 October 2011
05:10 GMT |
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Tablets haven't managed to actually get close to outselling laptops overall, but they did, apparently, already push netbooks aside, in a manner of speaking, according to ABI Research.
Tablets were described, by some, as a threat to the continued sales of netbooks ever since they first showed up.
At first, ma... |
25 October 2011
03:01 GMT |
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South African Vodafone affiliate, Vodacom, announced the immediate availability of a Webbook device powered by the newly released Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating system.The 10-inch netbook runs the newest version of Ubuntu, on a Cortex A8-based Freescale i.MX51 CPU @ 800-900MHz, with 512MB of system RAM, 4GB ... |
21 October 2011
06:00 GMT |
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Asus has recently held a media event at the AsiaD conference, and during the presentation the company has confirmed that is currently working on developing a new netbook series with an ultra-thin design.The announcement was made by none other than Asus' Chairman, Jonney Shih, who said: "You'll see on our ne... |
20 October 2011
05:28 GMT |
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Evolio, a Romanian tablet and GPS maker you probably never heard of before, has just announced the introduction of the Evolio U9, what he company touts as being the world's lightest notebook since it weights a mere 980g, or about 2.16 pounds.Despite calling it a notebook, Evolio's latest creation is actual... |
10 October 2011
08:05 GMT |
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Led by Apple’s iPad 2, an estimated 37 million ultra-mobile devices (UMDs) will ship into the United States during 2011, according to ABI Research. The company provides in-depth analysis and quantitative forecasting of trends in global connectivity.The research firm forecasts an influx of $24 billion in re... |
7 October 2011
15:51 GMT |
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Turning to ultrabooks and leaving netbooks behind is really starting to look like the only real option that notebook makers have if the figures published by ABI Research are accurate.
Ever since tablets started to sell by the thousands, the effect on the netbook segment has been quite closely monitored.
After ... |
7 October 2011
04:02 GMT |
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Analysts again stepped up to state the fact that, despite the premature assumptions of certain parties, there is no way tablets will remove laptops from the picture any time soon.
People might not have noticed it, but the whole hype surrounding the tablet market is more or less identical to how netbooks were rece... |
30 September 2011
08:30 GMT |
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Toshiba did not hold back in its latest press releases, unveiling not just entry-level and basic entertainment laptops, but also an all-in-one system and, in this case, an even stronger laptop that contrasts with a compact, portable netbook.
The beginning of October, 2011, will mark the arrival of a whole bunch o... |
27 September 2011
10:25 GMT |
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Acer did recently see a spike in order from Europe and, whether due to that or not, an updated model of the Aspire One 522 has surfaced in that region, featuring an AMD platform. Those keeping track of things on the laptop market may or may not be up to speed with how Acer hasn't been going through its best ye... |
27 September 2011
03:55 GMT |
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A new Asus Eee PC netbook model has recently become available for pre-order on Amazon Germany, the new 1015BX being one of the first laptop designs to be powered by AMD's recently launched C-60 low-power APU.The C-60 was released by AMD a little more than a month ago and slightly improves on the specs of the C-5... |
26 September 2011
03:29 GMT |
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Netbooks may not be getting as much attention now as they did a year ago, but they are by no means disappearing, although the next generation might have hit a certain snag.
Entry-level is a term that seems to be used a bit loosely in the case of netbooks, since their performance level has increased substantially ... |
16 September 2011
03:37 GMT |
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Even though Nokia withdrew its support for the MeeGo operating system, the OS is not through yet, having even shown up as the default software on the new ASUS netbook.
MeeGo is one of the newest operating systems that have begun to carve niche markets of their own as Microsoft prepares to out its next Windows ver... |
13 September 2011
05:16 GMT |
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There has been much talk of the Windows and Android operating systems, but there are other software platforms out there, such as the MeeGo, which has landed on a certain item that should be reaching Indian and Russian stores now. Samsung has been nothing if not active on the mobile front lately, even as it created ... |
23 August 2011
08:29 GMT |
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The past days saw news about Intel's CPU lineup, most of which was encouraging, but there seem to be some less than fortuitous changes of plans on the horizon, particularly in regards to the upcoming netbook platform. Recently, Intel has either given updates or was the subject of reports concerning its existin... |
18 August 2011
05:53 GMT |
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That the netbook market is being unfavorably affected by tablets is no longer news, but it looks like the trend will continue now that even ASUS has decided, or so reports claim, to reduce orders for Eee PCs.Things on the netbook market are definitely not going as well as makers of such things expected and hoped ear... |
4 August 2011
05:08 GMT |
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Just a few days after Asus' ultra-thin Eee PC X101 netbook powered by the MeeGo operating system was spotted online on the website of a US e-tailer, the Taiwanese company has officially released this system in Germany where it will retail for 169 Euro.
Like most other netbooks developed to run the MeeGo opera... |
3 August 2011
08:05 GMT |
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After releasing an LTE equipped HP Pavilion dm1 notebook at the end of July, wireless provider Verizon has just announced that in a few days time it will also start selling its first LTE-equipped netbook.The netbook is a special version of the Compaq Mini CQ10-688nr, which was previously announced at the start of the... |
2 August 2011
11:17 GMT |
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About two weeks ago, Asus has started selling in Europe the 1215P netbook, which was one of the company's first models in a while to come with a Linux distro pre-installed, and now the Taiwanese hardware maker has released another such netbook in Germany, the Eee PC R011PX.
This is available right now from Am... |
29 July 2011
06:11 GMT |
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A short while after a US-based online retailer has listed the Eee PC X101 for pre-order on its website, Asus has announced that the $200 MeeGo running netbook will arrive in the States in August, while the company's European customers will get the machine in September.
Like most other netbooks developed to ru... |
28 July 2011
09:12 GMT |
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Available in other parts of the world for quite some time now, MeeGo-powered netbooks have started to reach US shores, and one of the first units to use this mobile operating system comes courtesy of Asus and is dubbed the Eee PC X101.
Like most other netbooks developed to run MeeGo, the Eee PC X101 runs on some v... |
27 July 2011
02:48 GMT |
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Even though MeeGo's days as a smartphone operating system are numbered, the folks at Samsung have started to use this OS for building inexpensive netbooks for emerging markets and one such model, the N100, was recently announced in India.At the heart of Samsung's new mobile computer stands the recently laun... |
21 July 2011
11:09 GMT |
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Computer vendors HP, Acer, Asus, Lenovo and Toshiba have started to lower the retail prices of their current notebooks in order to clear out inventories in preparation for Intel's launch of the Cedar Trail platform, which is expected to take place in September of this year.
The price cuts are for now limited ... |
14 July 2011
09:17 GMT |
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Some time ago, to the delight of open source fans, Asus has announced that it will release a special series of netbook models that will run the Ubuntu Linux operating system, and recently the company has started selling its first such laptop in Europe.
The netbook in question is the Eee PC 1215P, which has now bee... |
14 July 2011
08:05 GMT |
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Samsung has finally set up for pre-order a certain entry-level mobile personal computer which is unique thanks to the fact that it can harness the energy of the sun thanks to having solar panels on the lid.End-users may or may not have learned of the fact that companies specializing in the making of solar panels hav... |
12 July 2011
05:33 GMT |
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The Acer Aspire Happy 2 series of mobile personal computers has made the news before, but like many before it, it has once again stepped into the spotlight, this once in order to expose the fact that their availability has come to be.The thing about the Intel Atom platform is that it is present, or showed up at leas... |
30 June 2011
08:57 GMT |
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Harnessing solar power is something that humans have been getting better and better at, with now, apparently, being the point where the technology is far enough along that it can be implemented in consumer electronics.
Consumer electronics have already reached the point where they can go on for days, even months,... |
27 June 2011
10:49 GMT |
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Netbooks may no longer be in the minds of the people as much as they were last year, but they are hardly going to disappear, especially now that the likes of ASUS are branching out to more operating systems.
The tablet market has definitely put a dent in the plans that makers of mobile computers had envisioned fo... |
27 June 2011
05:45 GMT |
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At the start of this year, Lenovo has introduced a series of new entry-level netbooks, including the IdeaPad S100 model that is now available for pre-order on Amazon US with prices starting at $329.99.The IdeaPad S100 is one of Lenovo's most basic notebook models and is based on an Intel Atom N455 processor.Intr... |
23 June 2011
08:42 GMT |
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As with so many things, the rate at which tablets have been draining netbooks of their customers may have been a bit overstated, at least this is what an ABI Research survey appears to suggest.Back in 2010, most people didn't expect tablets to take off quite so quickly, but they definitely did, making sure netb... |
23 June 2011
05:50 GMT |
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After starting shipping the Series 5 Chromebook in the US, Samsung is now getting ready to launch the netbook on the European market, where it should become available for purchase tomorrow for as low as €399.Samsung is one of two partners selected by Google for the consumer launch of Chrome OS, and its Series 5 ... |
23 June 2011
03:17 GMT |
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Announced back in February at the 2011 Mobile World Congress, the Aspire One D257 low-power computer is now starting to become available in stores across Europe, marking the introduction of a new design line for Acer's netbook products.In fact this is the first major redesign of the Aspire One series undertaken ... |
22 June 2011
05:46 GMT |
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It looks like Samsung is not just selling tablets, but also going ahead with its netbooks sales, having now expanded the availability of one model to include Russia, where it sells for roughly 14,000 rubles.Netbooks have definitely not been going through their most promising of periods, sales-wise, even though they ... |
20 June 2011
09:29 GMT |
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Expected to arrive in just a couple of hours in the US, Samsung's Series 5 Chrome OS netbook was recently listed by two major European retailers that will sell this laptop from June 24 with prices starting at €399.
Samsung is one of two partners selected by Google for the consumer launch of Chrome OS, an... |
15 June 2011
05:32 GMT |
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Asus will soon update it Eee PC netbook product family with a new design called the 1015BX which is based on AMD's C-Series accelerated processing unit and provides users with both portability and a “stylish” design.
The Asus Eee PC 1015BX notebook is built around a 10.1-inch LED-backlit screen, w... |
15 June 2011
03:19 GMT |
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When it first introduced its Cromia Chrome OS netbook at Google's I/O summit, Acer announced that the WiFi version of this laptop will retail for $349, but it now seems like the company has quietly increased the price of the unit with $30.
Acer hasn't issued any press release to notify anyone about the p... |
13 June 2011
08:50 GMT |
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Samsung and Google have just kicked off a special program that allows those interested in buying a Chrome OS notebook to place a pre-order for Samsung's Series 5 portable a week before the laptop will become available from retailers across the US.In order to qualify for this program, consumers will have to find ... |
8 June 2011
10:20 GMT |
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Windows 8 is going to prove nothing but bliss for ARM update, believes ARM Chief Executive Officer Tudor Brown. According to Brown, in excess of 40% of netbooks are expected to be powered by ARM architectures in 2015, a milestone that will only be reached with the help of Windows 8, ARM’s CEO revealed for Digi... |
7 June 2011
08:42 GMT |
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It appears that the Google Chromebook developed by Samsung is not the only one that will start to reach customers this month, as Kogan, an Australian electronics maker, has also prepared such a product.By now, consumers will have heard of the Chromebook, essentially a netbook that uses an OS whose operations are car... |
3 June 2011
09:18 GMT |
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It appears that Acer really is bringing out all the big guns in its quest to have netbooks at least stay at current sales levels, such as extra aesthetic elements, in addition to better performance and affordability.By now, consumers will have already learned of the fact that the netbook market hasn't been doin... |
3 June 2011
07:38 GMT |
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It appears that Samsung's Chromebook has experienced an advanced case of double success, or so it would seem, having been both released early and sold out almost as soon as it got listed.One might not expect a new netbook to prove very appealing after all the talk about tablets eroding the market share of low-e... |
3 June 2011
03:28 GMT |
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