Welcome to this weeks edition of the Weekly Netbook Roundup. Lets see the interesting things that have gone on in the netbook space since we last spoke.
- Special edition Samsung NC10 with larger battery available for preorder — Looks like Amazon is selling a special version of the NC10 with a larger trackpad and battery (5900mAh 6-cell) which Samsung says will last for 9.4 hours. The screen on this version will be glossy unlike the original matte version. You can pick one up for $499.
- Sony Vaio P (VGN-P588E) performance and benchmarks — Jenn from Pocketables.net takes the VAIO P for a spin and shows us lots of good stats on how the computer performs. Some people don’t think the VAIO P is a netbook, but for some reason we included it here in the WNR. Controversy!
- Hands on with the Acer Aspire One D150 – Video — Sascha from netbooknews.de has a good hands on video of the Acer Aspire One D150. He doesn’t seem to be thrilled with the keyboard and says he is disappointed at the quality of the Aspire One D150 considering how successful the original Aspire One was, and that this is a second-gen netbook.
- Dell’s Mini 9 selling for just $249 — who needs a subsidy? — Looks like Dell has cut the price on its Inspiron Mini 9 [Portal page] netbook. You can pick up the lowest-speced Mini 9 which has 512MB of RAM, Ubuntu, and a 4GB SSD. Add $50 and you’ll get another 4GB of storage and Windows XP.
- Netbook growth leads to surge in Windows XP sales — Despite many netbook makers offering Linux flavors of their netbooks, XP is hugely popular, effecting OS sales charts on all PC sales, not just netbooks. “In December, 13.7% of all laptops sold, and 11.2% of all computers were running Windows XP.”.
- More rumored Dell Mini 10 details, colors surface — More information on Dells upcoming Mini 10 netbook. Apparently some leaked information (which isn’t confirmed to be true yet) has indicated that the Mini 10 will be available with two different display options, 1024 x 576 and 1366 x 768. Also contained in the leak is the option of 1.3GHz or 1.6GHz CPU, 3 or 6-cell battery, and something referred to as a “DVD slice” which sounds… interesting.
That’s all for this week. Tune in next time to the Weekly Netbook Roundup next monday!
I think there is another netbook shown up this week which is Samsung NC20?
Hanzo, we’ve been hearing about the NC20 for a while now. However, we generally tent to not cover stuff with a screen size beyond 10″. The NC20’s screen is 12.1″.
i like that the NC10 SE will come in black, might help hide the “cheap look” the current 1 (tacky silver stripe, assembled with too many parts, etc). is the new battery just an extended battery or does it sit flush? does it add any weight?
this looks to be directly taking on the new 1000HE with the larger battery – if its flush, if it doesnt add any weight. but it still doesnt have the N280, chiclet keyboard, and is about $100 too expensive.
it’s really exciting to watch these huge companies beat the crap out of eachother in the netbook world. too bad it looks like Acer has made a huge slip with their latest offering.
BlockPern, I’m not 100% sure, but I think the the standard NC10 batteries are 6-cells and they fit flush. The new version with the higher capacity battery is also 6-cell but with more capacity, which I believe means that it should be the same form-factor as the regular battery.