The good people at Engadget are reporting that you can now snag a 32GB SSD drive for your Dell Mini 9 netbook as an option. The current pricing is $100 in addition to any of the other options you choose. This is pretty steep when you consider the netbook only costs $349 to begin with. If you’re worried about additional battery life, you’d be better off with getting an external battery or put the money to getting the 6-cell battery which is $129.
Source: Engadget

If you own an Acer Aspire One netbook, Congratulations!
You may want to know how to get help, how to install OS X on it or find out where to pickup the latest accessories for your new netbook.
The forum is over at aceraspireoneuser.com.

While it may be counterproductive to add weight to a product whose defining feature is it’s diminuitive size and slender look, but working on a heavier netbook is better than working on a netbook with no battery power.
If you own an Acer Aspire One, you can snag a 9 cell battery which will last you more than 8 hours. This will allow you to work all day or on a long flight without needing to recharge.

There’s a community of people who pursue the idea of putting OS X on non-Mac computers. The MSI Wind is the subject of choice for modders nowadays with pretty decent results.
Below is a video of the finished product:

If you’re so inclined and bold, there are step by step instructions on how to perform a similar feat on your own. You can find it here.
Before you get started you’re going to need a few things:
- An external DVD drive
- A DVD containing Kalyway 10.5.2 install (you can find this on the …

UK retailer, Carphone Warehouse decided to stop selling their own brand of netbooks. The netbooks were running Linux and customers ended up returning them because they didn’t know how to use them. Due to the lack of popularity in the portable computers they decided to take them all off of the shelves and replace them with another kind of netbook with Windows instead.
This goes right in line with an earlier post here about Best Buy no longer selling Linux netbooks.
Source: EeePC.net

MyDellMini.com has a forum point where someone added touch screen capabilities to their Dell Mini 9 netbook. They did it under the Ubuntu Linux operating system with parts purchased from eBay.
If your interested in doing something similar, you can find the forum thread here.
There’s actually a video of the finished product. You can find it below.

The Samsung NC10 netbook has been making waves all over the world and especially in Europe. The 10.2″ netbook is available in both black and white (pictured below).

In either color, you’re going to get phenomenal battery life with some claims of up to 8 hours with the six cell battery it comes with.

By using Google Insight for Search, you’ll see that searches for the Samsung netbook surged in September 2008.  Not only have searches surged, but they’re up in some pretty interesting places.  Number 1 is Hong Kong but after that …

Two weeks ago, the 904HA was a great deal for just under $400. Things appear to be getting better as the same 904HA is now available for $339 with free shipping.
For $339, you’re getting a lot of the standard netbook requirements and also some great extras.

Netbooks are a pretty recent phenomenon.  Before netbooks became mainstream you had regular notebooks and UMPCs which were more like mini-tablet PCs than anything else.
Over the course of 2008, people searching for netbooks has grown dramatically.  It’s pretty surprising to see where the people are located that are searching for these ultraportable notebook computers.
Hawaii leads the way in searches with Washington in second place.  It’s more of a West Coast phenomenon for now with people in almost every state looking to get their hands on a Acer Aspire One or …