Category | netbook

Attempt to keep your head straight with the Asus Eee PC comparison chart

Posted on 03 July 2009

We occasionally joke that Asus seems to release a new netbook every week, however, one glance at their Eee PC product comparison chart, and you’ll find that our little joke isn’t exactly that far from reality. The comparison chart lists…

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Asus Eee PC T91 official US product page up, US release date officially missing

Posted on 03 July 2009

How long will Asus continue to tantalize us with the Asus Eee T91 [Portal page]? It seems like ages ago that we first saw the tablet-netbook that promises to bring the tablet PC experience to the masses. While it seems…

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Early Always Innovating Touchbook demo

Posted on 03 July 2009

As we await news of the supposed imminent release of the Always Innovating Touchbook [Portal page], I wanted to bring attention to a demo of the forthcoming Touchbook from a product launch conference called Demo. The demonstration itself is actually a…

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Always Innovating Touchbook coming next month, full specs

Posted on 25 June 2009

The Always Innovating Touchbook, which made a decent amount of buzz several months ago, should be seeing its first batch of devices released next month, in July. The device is quite unique as the screen can be removed from the…

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Netbooknews.com Live and Handing out Awards

Posted on 16 June 2009

Sascha Pallenberg, long term co-podcaster over at MeetMobility launched a new website, netbooknews.com, while we were over in Taiwan a few weeks ago. The site aims to provide video overviews of netbooks and netbook-related technology and software and they’ve already posted…

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UMPC or netbook? Can’t it be both? [video]

Posted on 05 June 2009

An interesting hybrid device has cropped up at Computex. Combining a netbook with a slate UMPC and running both XP and Android at the same time might sound complicated, but it looks like there is a semi-functional unit on display…

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Asus Eee T91 tablet-netbook finally official

Posted on 04 June 2009

After seeing the unit get ripped apart by the FCC and go hands on with plenty of people, Asus has just officially announced it via a press release on their site. While the usual marketing mumbo jumbo is present (they are…

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Acer confirms netbook running Android in Q3, shows it off at Computex (kind of)

Posted on 04 June 2009

There has been a lot of discussion lately about the prospect of Android being employed full time as a netbook OS. It looks like Acer is taking one of the first big steps and officially stating that they will bring…

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Slick VAIO P shaped device runs Android, powered by OMAP3 [video]

Posted on 03 June 2009

Sascha from Netbooknews.de (and more recently the English version, Netbooknews.com) is down on the ground in Taipei checking out the latest and greatest from Computex. A quick video from Sascha shows us an upcoming laptop form-factor device running an interesting combination of…

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Pixel Qi shows off new power saving screens [video]

Posted on 02 June 2009

We’ve been hearing rumblings of this for a while now, but it seems that Pixel Qi is now showing its new dual mode power saving screens. Based on the screen featured in the OLPC project’s XO computer. Essentially Pixel Qi has…

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Gigabyte Touchnote Screen Gestures in Action. Useful and Fun!

Posted on 29 May 2009

One element of the Gigabyte Touchnote that I’m starting to get used to now is the gesture support. It’s built into a special set of eGalax drivers that have been included on the device. Originally I wanted to turn them off…

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Asus Eee T91 hands-on gallery from Electricpig

Posted on 20 May 2009

The still upcoming Asus Eee T91 tablet netbook [Portal page] is looking better every day. I’m pretty excited for this device and what it could do to spice up the otherwise (dare I say) boring netbook space. Electricpig has a…

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68% of netbooks over 10”

Posted on 19 May 2009

I did some analysis of a German price comparison engine today and I was able to knock-up the following graph which shows how screen sizes have moved up way beyond the original 7” netbook idea. Compared to the original netbook…

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Weekly Netbook Roundup 5/18/09

Posted on 18 May 2009

We had a brief lapse in WNRs over the last few weeks but hopefully everything will get back on track. Let’s see what’s been going on in the netbook space.

How To Install Windows 7 On Almost Any Netbook — Gizmodo’s John…

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Asus Eee T91 tablet netbook gets taken apart, manual revealed

Posted on 18 May 2009

The much anticipated Eee T91 tablet netbook [Portal page] has just taken one step closer to seeing an official US release. The FCC has gotten their hands all over the computer and given us plenty of nice internal photos as well…

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Asus Eee PC 1008HA review roundup

Posted on 14 May 2009

One of Asus’ upcoming Eee PCs, the 1008HA, which Chippy and jkk got to check out at this year’s CeBIT, has seen a handful of reviews from across the web recently. Engadget rounded up several of them and they seem to…

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Netbooks for Laggards?

Posted on 14 May 2009

This strikes me as tail-end marketing.

Simply buy an MSI WInd netbook in the next 3 weeks (in Germany) and you can send a form in to receive one of 7 possible ‘presents’ including a grill and a grill-set. Are they…

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