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Gateway settled for just one new Cedar Trail netbook, but Toshiba has updated its whole collection, or at least a significant part of it, with Intel's newest entry-level mobile CPUs, though there is an unexpected downside. Intel's newest Atom central processing units provide more than just a clock speed i... |
13 February 2012
03:28 GMT |
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Netbooks may have lost their fame, but they are still out there, some new models even appearing from time to time, like the Gateway LT4004U. The new product that Gateway has put together is a more or less common netbook, albeit powered by a new-generation Intel processor. The central processing unit (CPU) in quest... |
13 February 2012
02:54 GMT |
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Listed by Amazon US since the middle of January, Acer’s Aspire One D270 netbook, based on Intel’s recently announced Atom Cedar Trail platform, just went on sale in both Europe and the US, with pricing starting at 259 EUR (about $343).
Acer’s creation doesn’t differ all that much from all the... |
10 February 2012
03:18 GMT |
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Just as it promised during this year’s CES fair, Asus has begun shipping the X101CH netbook based on the Intel Cedar trail Atom platform internationally, the laptop having just arrived in Europe with prices starting at 299 EUR (about 398 US). The netbook was listed by various online retailers around Italy, but... |
9 February 2012
07:12 GMT |
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Micro-Star International's collection of entry-level mobile personal computers has just grown by one, though we cannot really say there is anything particularly revolutionary to see here. The company has completed the preparations for the shipping of the MSI Wind U180 Cedar Trail netbook. There was no loud a... |
7 February 2012
11:25 GMT |
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Netbooks may have lost most of their fame, but ASUS still thinks there are enough people out there who might want one, especially when that “one” has an AMD APU at its core.
Advanced Micro Devices may not have paid much mind to the mobile PC market over the years, but that changed when its Heterogeneous... |
4 February 2012
04:49 GMT |
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Still supporting netbook computers, MSI has just made official the Wind U180 10.1-inch entry-level laptop, which is the company’s first such device to be based on Intel’s Cedar Trail platform launched at the end of last year.
MSI markets the Wind U180 an ultrathin and ultralight netbook since it features... |
3 February 2012
05:31 GMT |
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It may not be known far and wide as the biggest promoter of netbooks, but Samsung does have a significant presence on that market, enough that it decided it was time for a particularly specialized entry-level PC.
Samsung has announced the NC110-Pororo, a low-end mobile personal computer that has a very specific seg... |
1 February 2012
02:49 GMT |
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Intel’s Cedar Trail platform might not have the power of AMD’s E-series APUs, but this hasn’t stopped HP from using it in order to refresh their Mini 110 and Mini 210 netbook computers.
As many of you surely know by now, Intel’s Cedar Tail platform comprises the Cedarview processors and the N... |
31 January 2012
12:01 GMT |
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Acer has reiterated its plans to change its strategy for 2012, revealing a few moves for this year and beyond, or so reports state.
Digitimes has once again provided information on what a world-class IT player is thinking of doing in the short- to mid-term.
Apparently, Acer intends to change the way it goes about ... |
31 January 2012
05:47 GMT |
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Even though Atom-powered netbooks aren't expected to hold onto their market share much longer, HP still thinks there are enough prospective customers out there to warrant a new release. It wasn't long ago that we learned about how some parties believed that Intel's Atom line of netbook chips, and net... |
24 January 2012
16:31 GMT |
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Info has leaked in the case of Asus' soon-to-be-released new netbook, codnamed R051BX. While seemingly intended for business purposes, it looks like the Eee R051BX will sell nice.
Despite the official release date being still unknown, the R051BX is expected to soon hit the shelves. We've already prepared d... |
23 January 2012
09:37 GMT |
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Since it was about time AMD's collection of laptop chips scored a new design win, ASUS put together the Eee PC R051BX netbook powered by the C-60 APU. A leak has just exposed the hardware details of a netbook that ASUS' own support page managed to confirm as real not long ago. Carrying the name of Eee P... |
23 January 2012
03:29 GMT |
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Even though Intel Atom netbooks might be doomed, there are alternatives, like AMD's C50- dual-core APU which powers the laptop that AT&T has just unveiled.
The netbook now selling through AT&T is called Acer Aspire A0722 and is based on the 1GHz dual-core APU with Radeon HD 6250 graphics.
Measuring 11.6 in... |
21 January 2012
05:58 GMT |
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Atom central processing units have been selling rather slowly over the past few months, and with Intel not mentioning the brand much lately, it is likely that they do not have long to live.
Intel recently published its financial results for Q4 2011 and the whole year, but even with overall record sales it wasn�... |
21 January 2012
04:00 GMT |
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The recent CES 2012 fair has witnessed the arrival of an important number of Intel Cedar Trail-powered netbooks, and some of these have already been listed by online retailers, including Acer’s Aspire One AOD270, which has just popped up on Amazon.
Acer’s creation doesn’t differ all that much from ... |
17 January 2012
11:17 GMT |
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Just one week after being officially unveiled at the CES 2012 fair, Asus’ Eee PC X101CH and Eee PC 1025C notebooks, based on Intel’s Cedar Tail platform, are now available for pre-order in the US with prices starting at $269 (roughly 210 EUR).For this much money, you will be able to get your hands on the ... |
17 January 2012
10:46 GMT |
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Since the technology for absorbing solar energy has finally reached the stage where it can actually provide a relevant amount of power, Samsung has decided to put it to work. Samsung recently said that it had every intention of becoming the greatest supplier of laptops worldwide. The NC215S netbook, like the yell... |
16 January 2012
05:04 GMT |
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Even though most laptop manufacturers have given up on the netbook concept, Asus keeps pushing new devices into its Eee PC product line and the latest to make its appearance is the ultra-thin X101CH packing Intel’s recently released Cedar Trail platform.
The chip used for this netbook is actually the Atom N260... |
10 January 2012
09:15 GMT |
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Even though netbooks seldom make the news nowadays, Gigabyte has no intention of letting the product type die just yet, evident from its latest press release. Since the 2012 edition of the Consumer Electronics Show is almost here, Gigabyte has officially introduced some of the things it will have on display there. ... |
9 January 2012
06:21 GMT |
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Toshiba's NB510 netbook may not be set to officially debut before CES 2012, but that doesn't mean some photos of it can't show up in the meantime.It so happens that Notebook Italia just uncovered a few press shots.There seem to be black, red and blue versions of the mobile PC, all powered by the Intel ... |
6 January 2012
02:41 GMT |
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Intel's Cedar Trail CPU platform is out and about, so Micro-Star International decided to build a netbook called Wind U180.This is a relatively generic low-end device, like netbooks always have been meant to be.With a screen size of 10.1 inches and a resolution of 1,024 x 600 pixels, the laptop relies on an Atom... |
4 January 2012
13:41 GMT |
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The Ideapad S110 laptops that Lenovo has just revealed has some major implications that may not be apparent at first glance.
As we already covered here, the item is a netbook in all but name.
Lenovo chose to dub it a mini-notebook instead, even though the screen size (10.1 inches) and the rest of the specs clearl... |
30 December 2011
18:01 GMT |
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After being spotted in an online store a little bit more than a month ago, Asus’ Eee PC 1225C netbook powered by Intel’s upcoming Atom Cedar Trail processors was made official by the Taiwanese company who just posted the netbook’s manual online.Notebook Italia has caught a glimpse of this document a... |
28 December 2011
16:41 GMT |
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Asus has been showcasing the Lamborghini VX6S at various trade shows and event in the industry for almost six months now, but this Intel Cedar Trail powered netbook has yet to make its arrival until now.However it now seems like we aren’t that far away from its launch, as in order to increase the hype surroundi... |
27 December 2011
09:14 GMT |
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Meet Eee PC 1225B, the most powerful member of Asus' Eee family. This netbook is running on a dual-core CPU architecture, aided by a Radeon HD 6320 built-in graphic card, and a maximum of 4GB DDR memory (2GB is standard configuration).
If you're looking for a computer packing together small size and brawn,... |
27 December 2011
08:32 GMT |
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Asus keeps on expanding its Eee PC netbook range with new products and during this weekend the Taiwanese company has added a new such model to its lineup, the Eee PC 1225B, which is powered by an AMD Brazos E-450 APU.This is actually AMD’s most powerful E-series accelerated processing unit to be produced as it ... |
27 December 2011
04:24 GMT |
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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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