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For some time, ASUS has been known to be working on a quite unique netbook, the Lamborghini VX6, and while it has yet to start shipping, the sports car-inspired mobile computer seems to be getting closer to mass availability, even being set up for pre-order.As end-users may know, netbooks, particularly those based o... |
3 September 2010
04:25 GMT |
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Intel's recently introduced dual-core Atom N550 central processor has apparently made it into another entry-level mobile computer, the Acer Aspire One D255 Happy, a reiteration of the D255 only with a white chassis and brightly-colored palm rest and display cover.The Atom N550 is the newest central processing u... |
2 September 2010
04:47 GMT |
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As one of Acer's subsidiaries, it was only a matter of time before Packard Bell opened its door for the Atom N550 dual-core, and the company seems to have completed the dot SE netbook, a 10-inch entry-level mobile PC with a 7.5-hour battery life.As end-users may know, the Atom N550 is the recently-released mobi... |
1 September 2010
10:54 GMT |
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With HP having unveiled a number of new mobile computers, it is not surprising to hear Samsung doing something similar and, sure enough, the company has just been revealed to be working on two new lines of laptop, the SF (notebooks) and the NF (netbooks).HP focused more on the multimedia side and revealed the ENVY 1... |
1 September 2010
05:02 GMT |
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Just days ago, ASUS was revealed to have already completed a netbook built around the Intel Atom N550, the new dual-core, but it seems that the company is far form finished, having supposedly already decided to bring out two more Eee PCs of this kind.The appearance of the Atom N550 once again allowed laptop makers t... |
30 August 2010
05:28 GMT |
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Press release or no, a new netbook has shown up as available for order online, and this time it is an Aspire One model that was created by Acer and built around the Atom D550 central processing unit, Intel's new dual-core which has a frequency of 1.5GHz.The new CPU from the Santa Clara, California-based company... |
27 August 2010
03:25 GMT |
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Since Intel recently announced that its Dual-Core Atom N550 mobile processor would power a new generation of netbooks, PC makers were quick to oblige, but ASUS appears to be a step ahead of the rest, having already started to ship the Eee PC 1015PEM.The Atom N550 CPU that Intel trumpeted not so long ago is the new d... |
25 August 2010
05:09 GMT |
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Microsoft's Windows 7 Starter OS has held the field of netbooks so far, but it seems that it is only a matter of time before the first Pine Trail mobile PC loaded with Chrome OS comes out, more so now that the specs of Acer's model have been leaked to the web.Just a short while ago, Intel announced that it... |
24 August 2010
05:26 GMT |
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As some end-users may know, Intel recently declared that a new generation of netbooks would sprout soon, built around the Atom N550 dual-core processor, and Lenovo appears to have been quick to oblige, its IdeaPad S10-3 having already been set up for pre-order.For those interested in a reminder, the Atom N550 is a d... |
24 August 2010
04:49 GMT |
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Since the netbook market has kept growing at a rapid rate, Intel decided to provide system makers with the Atom N550 dual-core chips, and the CPU maker has now proudly announced that a host of PC suppliers have and will provide, through the end of the year, mobile PCs based on it.The Atom N550 CPU has a clock speed ... |
24 August 2010
04:17 GMT |
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Though it has yet to actually bring it out, ASUS has given a sort of update on the Lamborghini VX6, a mobile PC which loosely fits into the netbook category, even though it has a larger screen size and distinctly superior specifications compared to its so-called peers.Most of the netbooks unveiled so far have been b... |
23 August 2010
08:47 GMT |
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Even though it already has a full range of mobile PCs selling, Dell saw nothing wrong with unleashing yet another entry-level mobile PC on the European market, namely a netbook dubbed Inspiron Mini 1018, a machine based on the Intel Pine Trail platform with support for DDR3. Seeing that the netbook market was slowly... |
19 August 2010
10:05 GMT |
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With AMD and Intel now locked in a competition on the mobile PC front, personal computer makers expect decent laptop sales, but not all may see the same success, and while Acer expects to ship 3.2 million notebooks this month, ASUS reportedly lowered its netbook forecast for the entire third quarter of 2010 to 1.4 m... |
16 August 2010
06:42 GMT |
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ASUS may be working on a drove of slates, but it definitely isn't ignoring its other outlets and has almost finished preparations for the unleashing, on the European market, of the Eee PC 1015PN netbook, an entry-level mobile computer based on the Intel Pine Trail platform.Like Acer, ASUS is one of the major pl... |
14 August 2010
05:13 GMT |
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Today, August 10th, KDE e.V. proudly announced the release of the highly anticipated KDE Software Compilation 4.5.0. The official announcement contains 3 separate announcements, for the Development Platform, Plasma Desktop and Netbook, and the Applications.The KDE Development Platform 4.5.0 comes with improved perfor... |
10 August 2010
10:11 GMT |
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HP is always working on some new device or another, but it also makes a point of ensuring that those items it already has on sale become as widespread as possible. As such, it is not surprising to hear that one of its mobile PCs has become available in other areas besides Europe. Known as the Mini 5103, the netbook ... |
10 August 2010
03:13 GMT |
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When Advanced Micro Devices finally brought out its new range of platforms, including a complete range meant for mobile computers, a competition finally began on the laptop market in terms of performance, power efficiency and affordability. Needless to say, PC makers were quite quick in releasing products based on t... |
9 August 2010
08:41 GMT |
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In an interview with the people at Macworld, American writer Susan Orlean explains how and why she has come to embrace Apple’s iPad. Touting it as a great work and entertainment tool for the road, Orlean lauds the iPad’s long battery life, and its big screen. The Apple tablet, which replaced her ASUS ... |
9 August 2010
08:18 GMT |
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Intel may be trying, and not exactly succeeding, at penetrating the consumer electronics and smartphone markets with its x86 architecture, but ARM is doing something similar on the portable PC front. Still, Intel appears to be keeping a firm hold over this segment, as is shown by the fact that even Google's And... |
6 August 2010
05:11 GMT |
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Entry-level mobile computers are known for not being very capable when it comes to anything besides document viewing and basic web browsing. Still, even in this market segment, there are those products that can be seen as more high-end than the others, and ASUS is almost ready to bring out one of them, though it may... |
5 August 2010
08:29 GMT |
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It seems that ASUS is once again busy with updating its laptop lineup. Having already made the official unveiling of the Eee PC 1015PD Seashell series netbook, the company decided to follow up with another mobile PC, only of a different kind. Granted, one could say that the kind does not differ, since the newcomer is... |
30 July 2010
04:20 GMT |
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Until some months back, there wasn't much opportunity for variety, in terms of processing, when it came to netbooks based on the Intel Pine Trail platform. Then, the Santa Clara, California-based outfit released the Atom CPUs that support high-speed DDR3 memory. Needless to say, OEMs were quite eager to take ad... |
30 July 2010
02:34 GMT |
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Now that analysts are predicting a rapid growth for both netbooks and tablets, it makes sense that all IT players would want to take advantage of this potential for growth one way or another. Micron is one of those companies, and the means by which it plans to make its mark seems to have taken the form of a speciall... |
27 July 2010
11:25 GMT |
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Over the past few months, quite a number of Pine Trail-based netbooks have seen the light of day, especially ones based on the more advanced, DDR3-supporting Intel Atom processors. HANNspree decided it would once again tackle this market segment, only it resolved to stick to something more traditional in terms of spe... |
27 July 2010
11:04 GMT |
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Like virtually any other supplier of PCs, LG is constantly working on newer and better products, whether they are PC components or entire systems. One of the machines it has been working on for a while is known as the LG X140 and is an entry-level mobile PC that, though it is based on the Pine Trail platform, has bet... |
26 July 2010
04:47 GMT |
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Even though there were, at the start of the year, some concerns that the netbook market was getting saturated, a new batch of graphics and CPU solutions restored interest in this segment. Now, analysts are once again enforcing their previous predictions that this netbook market will keep growing at a rapid pace over... |
24 July 2010
07:04 GMT |
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It's been a while since our last review of the Jolicloud operating system, and since we just got a brand-new eMachines eM350 netbook (see it in the enclosed image) we thought to give you guys a glimpse into the new release of Jolicloud 1.0. As many of you already know, the distribution is not yet available for d... |
23 July 2010
12:41 GMT |
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With all the fuss about the newest Intel Atom N series chips, and their support for high-speed DDR3 memory, one would expect most new entry-level mobile PCs, otherwise known as netbooks, to quietly adopt them. Samsung, however, doesn't feel it necessary for things to move on so quickly just yet, so it stuck to ... |
13 July 2010
03:37 GMT |
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ASUS has definitely resumed its long-lasting string of mobile computer releases, and netbooks are definitely a central part of its marketing strategy for 2010. This can be easily seen from how the Eee PC 1005PX just got listed in Thailand. ASUS has also been talking about the Eee PC 1201PN netbook and the Acer Aspire... |
9 July 2010
09:05 GMT |
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After releasing an entire slew of laptops, ASUS recently came out and finally made a crater in the enthusiast segment by smashing it with the ARES HD 5970, a version of AMD's dual-GPU DirectX 11 card but with higher clocks and, most importantly, a full 4GB of GDDR5 VRAM. Now, the company has decided to help thin... |
9 July 2010
03:18 GMT |
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MSI decided it was time to boost the appeal of two of its more outstanding, recently launched personal computers, namely the Wind Top AE2220 all-in-one and the Wind U135DX netbook. The means by which it will do this is a collaboration with the Los Angeles Dodgers, under which said systems will become available in sp... |
9 July 2010
02:41 GMT |
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Acer, as consumers might know, has been one of the main advocates of the entry-level laptop market, otherwise known as the netbook market, for quite some time. As such, it is not at all surprising to hear that it is quite aggressively promoting each and every new such PC that it manages to put together. This is made... |
7 July 2010
04:07 GMT |
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Not too long ago, it was reported that Acer had decided to shift manufacturing of all of its ultrathin laptops under the Gateway brand and, sure enough, it appears that the latter is already hard at work on new products. In fact, a certain device has already supposedly started shipping, though it's not exactly a... |
7 July 2010
02:36 GMT |
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Now that the 4 of July is over and one with, IT companies can finally go back to their hardware-making, PC-releasing ways, which essentially means that the market may finally see the steady inflow of desktops and laptops restored. Sure enough, Samsung and ASUS have already said their piece, which makes Acer'... |
6 July 2010
04:04 GMT |
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Since Samsung has so candidly decided to start shipping a number of mobile PCs, it makes sense that its rivals would do something similar. As such, that some of ASUS' own mobile computers have become available for pre-order may not come as any sort of particularly shocking news. Indeed, this is what occurred, if... |
6 July 2010
03:16 GMT |
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HP, like all of its competitors on the PC front, has been quite active throughout the entire month of June, releasing or previewing a significant number of computers, especially laptops. Naturally, this came as a consequence of the new chips that AMD and Intel released during the previous months.Now, the same PC supp... |
2 July 2010
05:35 GMT |
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When it comes to displays of any kind, the first technology that pops into one's mind is, most often, LCD. Unfortunately, liquid crystal displays have certain drawbacks that prevent them from becoming ideal display solutions, the most notable of which is their ability to make their images become invisible under ... |
2 July 2010
04:46 GMT |
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It appears that PC suppliers have made a veritable habit of officially unveiling a device or another and remaining completely silent about when and for how much consumers will be able to get their hands on it. Granted, this does not always apply, but even the arrival of MSI's own Wind U135DX is unknown, though t... |
1 July 2010
04:02 GMT |
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By now, there already exist a fair number of netbooks with support for DDR3 on sale. This means that hearing about Acer's plans to launch another one will not exactly come as a surprise, especially knowing how the Taiwanese company is, practically, the main advocate of entry-level mobile PCs. Currently, Acer is ... |
1 July 2010
03:35 GMT |
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Consumers may have been misled into believing that ASUS would leave its entire ION 2 flank to the recently announced Eee PC 1201PN, but this doesn't seem to be the case at all. In fact, if anything, the PC maker seems all the more eager to push the same project forward, especially if it means it can supply the m... |
29 June 2010
09:22 GMT |
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MSI definitely seems to have gotten a taste for slim and light laptops, not just ultrathins but also netbooks. Even though some of the last items it showed off were the Twin Frozr II GeForce GTX 470 and GTX 466, the company got a significant amount of attention even prior to that for unveiling things like the U250 ul... |
29 June 2010
04:59 GMT |
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Like most any other PC maker, Samsung did not waste its time and unveiled its own collection of PCs over the past month, but it seems that it has no plans to take a break any time soon. In fact, the company appears more than eager to start working on its new products, one of which should actually make its official ap... |
28 June 2010
08:32 GMT |
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Gateway released a significant number of laptops over the past few weeks and it became quite obvious that Acer, of whom it is a subsidiary, had special plans for the company. Sure enough, time passed and rumors arose, with one of them even suggesting that the latter aims to modify its branding scheme. Basically, Acer... |
26 June 2010
05:45 GMT |
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So many new laptops and desktop PCs have been unveiled over the past few weeks that it almost feels as though the market itself will soon burst open because it can no longer contain them all. And yet, even with the industry swarming with so many new netbooks, notebooks, ultrathins and other types of systems, some com... |
23 June 2010
09:34 GMT |
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Even though they aren't growing, as a market, quite as fast as some companies hoped, netbooks are still growing in popularity, especially now that high-speed DDR3 memory is no longer out of their reach. Consumers are already finding reason to replace their previous-generation models. Better multitasking and mul... |
23 June 2010
08:28 GMT |
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When making a new product, companies always do their best to have it stand out as much as it can. Other times, a company may decide to release a less impressive device so as to make those that come afterwards seem more formidable than they otherwise would have. Unfortunately, there are certain market segments where ... |
23 June 2010
03:12 GMT |
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Anyone even remotely interested in netbooks will likely have, at the very least, heard of Chrome OS. This cloud-based operating system is one of Google's most looked forward to projects and promises to change the netbook experience sometime during the second half of the ongoing year. Acer will most likely be a ... |
21 June 2010
10:46 GMT |
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No doubt, netbook fans and those especially loyal to Acer will be distraught after finding out that the Aspire one 532G will never see the light of day. Said device was once touted as the first ION 2 netbook to ever be officially unveiled, but driver problems related to the NVIDIA Optimus technology appear to have fa... |
21 June 2010
04:29 GMT |
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It is definitely not new for the IT market to learn that a certain product supposedly in development has met its end even before actually making its official debut. Depending on what turn the industry takes, certain devices may no longer fit in with current trends or end up replaced by other prototypes. Sometimes, p... |
21 June 2010
03:56 GMT |
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When they saw that, while still on the rise, the netbook market was not growing as quickly as they had hoped, PC suppliers decided it was time to make some more noticeable changes to the base configurations. Fortunately, Intel came forth with CPUs that support faster memory (DDR3) and also have better clocks. These c... |
18 June 2010
04:54 GMT |
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