Articles Archive for November 2008
Netbook News »
Netbooks are unique because they have a screen size of 1024×600. This means finding wallpaper that will fit the screen can be difficult sometimes even though you can use Windows to resize the image for you.
If you don’t want to worry about doing that work, or want a library of images specially designed for netbooks, you can go to http://uktechnics.co.uk/. With 36 galleries, you’re almost guaranteed to find something you’ll like.
Acer Aspire Netbooks »
If a deal looks to good to be true, it usually is. After searching Google Product Search, a listing was found for an Acer One netbook is available for $250. This is a great discount for the $349 it usually goes for at most stores online.
The name of the company selling the discounted netbook is LLC Corporation and has over 100 satisfactory reviews but the website isn’t very reassuring.
Buyer beware.
Acer Aspire Netbooks »
Back in the days, MSN or AOL would give you a couple hundred bucks if you signed up for 3 years in a retail store. It looks like Vonage is picking up where they left off.
You can now walk into a Microcenter store and get a $250 credit towards the purchase an Acer One netbook, which brings the price of it down to $99.
Source: Fatwallet
Netbook News »
Today AMD announced it will indeed fight with Intel in the netbook space. They aren’t going after the regular Atom processor but are instead going after the proposed Dual Core Atom processors Intel is rumored to be working on.
The new Yukon platform will be introduced in the first half of 2009. It will be manufactured using a 65nm process and feature 2 cores, and 1MB of cache. There is currently no word on the FSB speed. Expect them to work at the 1.2Ghz to 1.5Ghz range with AMD stating that …
Asus Eee Netbooks, Netbook News, Netbook Reviews »
CNet got their hands on the Asus Eee PC S101, the upscale version in the line and had some great things to say about it. All in all the review was positive, but at $650+ is a steep price to pay for a netbook. The one area where the S101 shines is with battery life.
This can be chalked up to two things. One it uses an SSD hard drive. Since as much as energy isn’t spend retrieving data from the drive it’s able to help keep the battery from draining as …
Dell Mini Netbooks, Netbook News »
Electronista reports that you can now snag a 12″ Dell Mini netbook from their US site. To get all of the weight savings you’ll have to pay at least $550 for it which is pretty disappoints when you can get a 10″ netbook for around $400. The biggest difference aside from the screen real estate is the operating system.
Instead of getting Windows XP Home which runs well on a slower processor and less memory you get Windows Vista. If you add an SD card and enable Ready Boost performance shouldn’t …
Netbook News, Netbook Reviews, Samsung Netbooks »
The Samsung NC10 is available in the states and it’ll only be a matter of time before people get their hands on them. If you are on the fence about getting one, the best thing to do is to get information from people that have already used one.
Netbook-forums has just a thread going on. Lurk at your leisure.
Dell Mini Netbooks, Netbook News »
The UK is experience a big decline in their financial markets and their housing market haven’t been performing much better than what’s going on in the USA.
It makes perfect sense that to get the buzz out about Vodaphone subsidized netbooks by giving some away.
You blokes won’t be able to snatch one up from just any pub. It starts on the 17th, and one will be giving away each day by 11 people scattered all around the country.
You can stay up to date here by following on twitter: http://twitter.com/vodafoneliveguy
Netbook News, Netbook Reviews »
The form factor and weight of a netbook lends itself to all sorts of applications. Digital photography is among them. If you want to take several hundred photos and be able to upload them, email them, or edit them on the go using a netbook may be the perfect answer with some netbook being equipped with 80+ GB of hard drive storage space.
The decision and tradeoffs are clearly covered by Steve Ingraham. With a detailed post that would give most bloggers a nervous fit hoping Steve doesn’t decide to blog …
Netbook News, Netbook Parts »
This continues to be a good situation and getting better as pressure to make sales and generate profits has prompted everyone from Dell to HP to Acer and Lenovo to cut margins to the bone in order to sell netbooks. The question is how they’ll make money. Expect accessories to keep their coiffers full as people will look for extended batteries and replacement AC adapters.
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