NetBook
New Intel Cedar Trail N2600 processor
We recently reported on Asus’s plans for a new netbook featuring Intel’s new Atom N2600 Cedar Trail processor, built on a 32 nm technology. Netbooknews offers a quick comparison of the new Intel chip against the N570 and AMD C50 CPUs, the most obvious competitors to the low-voltage N2600. Official specs for the N2600 have [...]
Gigabyte Booktop T1132
Gigabyte Tablet-Notebook-Desktop Concept: Before the iPad came along, tablet computers were notebooks with a touchscreen that could be folded upwards for use in tablet-mode. Such notebooks are already in circulation, and Gigabyte has recently shaken up the format with their BookTop T1132N, a convertible laptop running a 1.6GHz Core-i5 processor, with a dedicated graphics card [...]
Samsung To Stop Making Netbooks
According to reports Samsung will stop making netbooks in 2012, discontinuing its 10.1-inch form factor to concentrate on more popular ranges. The news stems from cnet.fr, which directly quotes an alleged e-mail sent by Samsung to its trading partners which translated reads following the introduction of a new strategy in 2012 we will discontinue our [...]
Asus Transformer Prime Pre-order
Asus Transformer Prime has become available for pre-order on Amazon, should you want to grab this outstanding tablet/netbook. The price is $492. Also available is now the keyboard dock for this new Prime. Asus Eee Pad Transformer TF201 Prime offers many improvements over its predecessor TF101. It is lighter, slimmer, and faster. Prime has best yet Android [...]
Lenovo plans to bring new tablet with Ice Cream Sandwich and Kal-El
Asus Eee Pad Transformer has been the first tablet/netbook sporting the NVidia Tegra 3 processor codenamed Kal-El. Other tablets will soon follow. Engadget reports that Lenovo has a tablet planned for the end of this year. This 10.1-inch Lenovo tablet will have all new android Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) operating system. We expect more [...]
Vodafone Ubuntu Webbook
An Ubuntu Webbook was recently launched in South Africa by Vodafone, to be distributed by local telecoms carrier Vodacom. Netbooks have been squeezed out by budget tablets and ultrabooks in the northern hemisphere, but in a market where access to computers is poor, netbooks represent a great stepping stone between full-sized laptops and limited-capability mobile [...]
Samsung NS310 Netbook – Review
Samsung’s outlandish electric blue NS310 netbook offers a 10.1″ screen and a 1.5GHz Intel Atom N550 processor under the hood, along with a slightly meagre 1GB of RAM. It sells for $450. It’s a refreshing change from brushed metal gray or black surfaces. Sporty or kitsch? You could always settle for the purple Samsung NC110 [...]
NOOK Color price drop
As expected Barnes & Nobles lowered their price of NOOK Color to give way to new upcoming NOOK Color 2. Barnes & Noble NOOK Color eReader is now available in Best Buy for $199.99. NOOK Color was recently updated to have NOOK M agazines with some extra audio and video bonuses. Update also included tech [...]
NEC MGX 7-inch ultrabook
We have been paying some attention to ultra thin notebooks named ultrabooks lately. NEC has produced an interesting 7-inch super thin netbook called MGX. It’s a 7-inch ultrabook running android 2.3 operating system and a full QWERTY keyboard. It’s 8 1/2″ (21.6cm) x 4.3″ (10.99cm) big and it weighs mere 0.8lb (363g). This netbook is less [...]
Acer Aspire One Gets Double Upgrade
Acer is giving its low cost Aspire One notebooks a 1.33 GHz AMD C-60 dual core processor makeover. The Acer Aspire One 522 10 inch netbook and Aspire One 722 11.6 inch model were originally equipped with 1 GHz AMD C-50 processors and a Radeon HD 6250 graphics card. Notebook Italia has uncovered versions of [...]
