Windows 8 Spec Kept Low

Microsoft has made it known that Windows 8 system requirements will be as low if not lower than those for Windows 7. The Vice President of Microsoft’s Windows division added that intelligence has been built into Windows 8 so that the OS ‘can adapt to the user experience based on the user’s hardware.’ So the [...]

Dell Mini 10v netbook review

Dell Mini 10v has been around from quite a while and is a great budget netbook sporting decent netbook specifications. This Dell Mini 10v is fine for typical business web-surfing and office work on-the-go. Read more to find out about it.

The Dell Mini 10v comes with an Intel Atom N280/N280 processor that runs at 1.6GHz/1.66GHz. It comes with Windows 7 Starter, XP Home Editon or Ubuntu Linux 8.04. Equipped with a 10.1-inch display with 1024×600 resolution, you get 160GB/250GB HDD or 32GB SSD for storage. It is available in variety of colors: black, white, pink, green, red, blue, and purple

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Linux strikes back; gets 1/3 Netbook OS market share

This year, nearly 35 million netbooks pre-loaded with Linux shipped this year. This is surprising considering the fact that the ASUS left the Xandros (Linux OS) in the dark few months back and solely concentrated on Windows netbooks. Acer, too stopped selling their Linux Lite-based netbooks and started selling only Windows XP netbooks. Dell seems to be the only one that is still selling netbooks that come with Ubuntu pre-installed.

Another possibility can be that people bought netbooks with some flavor of Linux OS pre-installed, not from Acer or Asus, and then installed Windows OS on it. Almost all the netbooks have their XP/7 drivers online, so getting the drivers for a particular netbook is not a very difficult job.

Acer NAV50 and NAV60 netbooks spotted at FCC

Acer’s yet to come netbook was seen at FCC. NAV50 and NAV60 are the two models which were noticed. The only things which can be made out about this netbook from the available diagram is the size of the notebook (netbook), a 3-cell battery with 2200mAh capacity and a Windows XP sticker. It will have WiFi b/g and also a 3G module.

It has been quite a while since Acer released a new netbook. Acer Aspire One 751H, that we reviewed in June was disappointing in terms of performance, thanks to the awesome (note: sarcasm) Atom Z520 processor, which is ironically is slower than its predecessors (N280 and N270). This makes the Aspire D250 Acer’s flagship netbook.

K.R.T. X9 runs Windows 7 – has multi-touch support

Many tablets which we have came across from Shenzhen either have Windows XP or run Windows CE. But as exceptions are always there, the K.R.T. X9 runs Windows 7 with full support for multi-touch. This convertible tablet has 10.2 inch display and measures 226.3mmx166.9mmx24.7mm. It weighs 2kg, which is a bit bulky if you ask us. Inside, it is a pure vanilla netbook: Atom N270 processor running at 1.6GHz clock speed, 1024×600 resolution, 1GB RAM, Intel 950 integrated Graphic chipset, 160GB Hard disk, Wi-Fi (b/g) and support for WCDMA, TD-SCDMA, CDMA2000 3G connectivity.

You can choose between 2800mAh or 3500mAh capacity battery which runs for upto 4 hours. And for this have to pay a hefty amount of $588 USD.

Adesun AD-708 VIA-based tablet from Shenzhen runs Windows XP

New 7-inch tablet AD-708 by Adesun manufacturer from Shenzhen is based on VIA’s x86 architecture and can run Windows XP, It is also being offered with Windows Vista and Linux as OS. It measures 200×121.5×35mm and is available in two versions: basic and delux version. The basic versions has 512MB memory, 8GB SSD and a 3200mAh battery, while the delux version has 16GB SSD,1GB memory, 6400mAh battery, 2GB SD card, and built-in GPS receiver.

The rest of the specs are common like both are powered by a same VIA C7M processor (that runs @ 1.2GHz), G-sensor, an 7-inch 800×480 WVGA touchscreen display, Wi-Fi b/g connectivity, 2 USB 2.0 ports, Bluetooth, VGA port and SD card reader. The basic version is for about $293, whereas the delux version for about $441 USD.

ASUS EEE T91MT review

myt91.info have got hold of the EEE T91MT netbook and here are their initial impressions: 1) It small in size and shares same chassis as before. 2) Black bezel is a fingerprint magnet 3) Screen has soft touch and is glossy 4) Hinge is very strong 5) Windows 7 feels snappy thanks to the fast [...]

ASUS Eee PC 1001HA makes its apperance at the Global site

ASUS has now officially launched the EEE 1001HA. It carries the Seashell tag just like ASUS EEE 1008HA and ASUS EEE 1005HA. It carries an obsolete CPU: Atom N270 which was used by the netbooks of yesteryear.

Specifications:

• 10.1-inch 1024×600 display
• 1.6GHz Intel Atom CPU
• 1GB of RAM
• 160GB HDD
• Wi-Fi 802.1 b/g/n
• 0.3MP webcam
• 3 USB ports
• Windows XP or Linux OS

(why no Windows 7?)

• 3-cell battery

Ouch! A 3-cell battery in the era of netbooks where each netbooks sports 6-7 hours of battery life? Stupid move, ASUS

There is no information regarding its availability or its exact price, but we expect it to low due to its shabby specs ($320-$350)

[EEE 1001HA official webpage]

Forget ARM Cortex A8! Meet AMD Super Mobile CPU

Looks like XP is immortal! We thought that the XP would finally meet its fate on Oct 22. After netbooks, it is now turn for the phones to get equipped with XP.

Meet the phone powered by AMD Super Mobile CPU. It has GSM, GPRS, EDGE and 3G too. For storage, you can get upto 64GB of SSD storage which would certainly make the current iPhone 3GS owners a bit angry. You can get 1GB RAM (512MB version is available)

Compared to the fruit-phone, it has bigger display (4.8-inch) which means that it can easily be used as a MID. You get built-in WiFi and WiMax too. GPS is there too so that you don’t get lost.

Commentary: ARM Cortex, the CPU that is being used in iPhone and iPod Touch is, as its name implies, ARM based. Naturally, it is not x86 and thus cannot run Windows OS. However, AMD Super Mobile CPU is fully x86 compatible and runs Windows XP OS without a hitch!

ASUS Eee PC T91MT available for pre-order at Amazon

Multi-touch tablet netbook, the 8.9-inch ASUS Eee PC T91MT is now up at Amazon.com for pre-order. It’s being offered at a hefty price tag of $549. With Windows 7 Home Premium as OS, only white model is currently available. The only difference compared to EEE T91 that we see that the RAM and SSD capacity has been doubled (32GB SSD, 2GB RAM versus 16GB SSD, 1GB RAM as in Windows XP version)