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Ubuntu Netbook Remix gets an interface overhaul
The folks at Canonical are in the process of redesigning the user interface for Ubuntu Netbook Remix. UNR is basically a custom version of Ubuntu that includes optimizations for netbooks with Intel Atom processors as well as a desktop environment and program launcher designed for computers with small, low resolution displays. The first version of [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Gigabyte T1028X touchscreen netbook quietly debuts
By Chris Davies, Slashgear Gigabyte have quietly updated their convertible touchscreen netbook range with the T1028X, a slightly re-fettled version of the T1028M they announced back at CeBIT 2009. Among the key changes are a switch in processor, moving up to the Atom N280 1.66GHz CPU paired with a faster FSB, and a higher-resolution display, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )What Is The Real Reason Dell Is Discontinuing 12-inch Netbooks?
By Michael Arrington, Tech crunch Dell has retired their 12-inch Intel Atom-powered netbooks, they said today. The official reason – “It really boils down to this: for a lot of customers, 10-inch displays are the sweet spot for netbooks…Larger notebooks require a little more horsepower to be really useful.” That makes absolutely no sense, since [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Dell Adamo to arrive tomorrow: $1,999
By Nilay Patel, Engadget Not a ton of details to work with here, but Dell’s confirmed to the hometown Austin American Statesman that the 13-inch Adamo we saw at CES will indeed launch tomorrow and be priced at $1,999. As expected, the machine will be just the first in an entire line of high-end Adamo-branded [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Dell Adamo announced: 1.2GHz Core 2 Duo, $1,999
By Nilay Patel, Engadget After months of drawn-out buildup, the Adamo endgame has played out pretty damn fast: we had pricing and box pictures leak just about an hour ago, and now Dell’s officially announced the first machine in the Adamo line, the 13.4-inch model we saw at CES. Sadly, it sounds like beauty is [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Dell lets Adamo 9 and Studio One 22 slip
By Thomas Ricker, Engadget In another of those extra-special slip-ups peculiar to Dell, we get the unofficial announcement of a pair of new computers courtesy of Dell’s own support documents. This time, it’s the Dell Adamo 9 and Studio One 22. From that bit of info we can deduce a 9-inch, ultra-glam, ultra-portable laptop carrying [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )MSI Wind U110 Eco doesn’t have ATI graphics
By Nilay Patel, Engadget Well, so much for that: our friends at Laptop have discovered that the ATI Mobility Radeon HD3200 listed on the Wind U110′s spec sheet was a typo, and that the machine’s 1.6GHz Atom Z530 is actually paired with the dramatically more boring Intel GMA 500 graphic chipset. That makes the claimed [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Lenovo leaks Pocket Yoga mystery netbook pics
By Joseph L. Flatley, Engadget The mysterious netbook that Engadget Chinese hepped us to from the floor of Lenovo’s Beijing office now has a name — if little else. Images have surfaced on the company’s photostream with this bad boy in a number of compromising positions, showing off its convertible design and touchscreen stylus capabilities. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Mouse Computer unveils its Dual-Core Atom Nettop
By Kamal DS, Gadgetmix The Mouse Computers have added a new product to their netbook/nettop range, a Dual Core Atom Nettop named EGPA33DR32XP. It uses the mighty Atom 330 processor with 2GB of RAM, 320GB HDD and uses XP Home as its OS. Mouse Computers have also thrown in a super DVD drive to make [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )MSI Wind U110 Eco rocks ATI graphics, 9-hour battery life
By Nilay Patel, Engadget Looks like MSI’s trying some new things with its next generation of netbooks — instead of the expected Atom N280 or the NVIDIA Ion platform, the new Wind U110 ECO pairs a 1.6GHz Atom Z530 and Intel’s traditionally MID-oriented Menlow chipset with an ATI Mobility Radeon HD3200 to achieve nine hours [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )AMD proposes new laptop battery life metrics, Intel is like “whatevs”
By Darren Murph, Engadget AMD has struggled of late to produce anything akin to a “good idea,” but we’ve got to give a serious high five to senior VP and CMO Nigel Dessau on this one. While pumping gas one day and thinking about the low / high MPG ratings on vehicles, he began to [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )HP Pavilion dv6t laptop gets a quiet upgrade
By Donald Melanson, Engadget HP just dished out a quiet upgrade to its dv7t gaming laptop last month, and it now looks like it’s done the same with its slightly more modest Pavilion dv6t, which gets some sprucing up inside and out. That includes your choice of 512MB ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4530 or 1GB [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )Packard Bell drops “dot” netbook in favor of new
By Donald Melanson, Engadget Well, it looks like Packard Bell’s “dot” netbook just didn’t capture that trademark Packard Bell flavor the company was looking for, as it has now officially ditched the netbook in favor of a new, as yet unannounced model. As you may recall, the dot was essentially just an original Acer Aspire [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )MSI VX600
By Brian, Mobilewhack MSI unveils another great laptop for mobile computing enthusiasts with the MSI V600. Boasting of an ECO engine, this latest laptop offering from MSI promises to be a powerful notebook that any mobile computing individual would love to have. Specs: • Intel Core 2 Duo Processor • SIS 672DX+SIS 968 Chipset • [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Linpus demos uber klein mystery netbook
By Tim Stevens, Engadget Like a little intrigue with your morning Joe? Check out the video below of this sleek little unidentified netbook on display at CeBIT last week at the Linpus booth, found by the same excitable bloke who brought us a glimpse of the company’s Linux Lite OS. The hardware sounds to fit [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )UMID M1 mbook now less close to US release
By Darren Murph, Engadget Less close, further away — take your pick. The bottom line is that the UMID M1 mbook that we’ve been secretly swooning over for weeks now may be further away from a US release than any of us Yanks would like. According to new intel gathered by Pocketables, a Stateside release [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Apple Netbook Gets Confirmed?
By Chris, Mobilewhack It was only yesterday that we brought to your attention the fact that there’s a new rumor in town saying that a netbook is going to arrive later this year, despite Apple’s previous assurances that such a thing won’t happen. And today the Dow Jones Newswire kind of confirmed the rumor. According [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Lenovo’s VAIO P Reserve Edition?
By Thomas Ricker, Engadget What you’re looking at is a genuine Lenovo device taken by a trusted source from inside of the Beijing IBM headquarters. The details sent to Engadget Chinese are brief so we can’t tell you if it’s a working model or not. Nevertheless, it bears all the hallmarks of a ThinkPad Reserve [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Lenovo’s 16-inch IdeaPad Y650 reviewed
By Darren Murph Lenovo’s curiously cute IdeaPad Y650 has been shipping out to multimedia lovers everywhere for just under a month now, but if you’ve been holding tight until a legitimate review hit the tubes, here’s your sign. Computer Shopper managed to get ahold of one of these 16-inch beauties, and while it was disappointed [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Dell Inspiron Mini 10 gets reviewed
By Donald Melanson, Engadget Dell’s Mini 10 netbook certainly seems to occupy the sweet spot between the company’s Mini 9 and Mini 12 offerings but, according to Laptop’s review of the netbook, there may be just a few too many trade-offs for some folks. On the upside, the Mini 10 does compare favorably to most [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )ASUS showcases HD-minded Eee Top ET2203 and ET2003
By Darren Murph, Engadget.com Amongst many, many other things at CeBIT, ASUS also found time to showcase two new Eee Top all-in-one PCs, though it completely failed to make any deal of it at all. In fact, it didn’t even bother hosting up specifications placards, leaving us curious as to what these offer over the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )5 things Apple could be doing with their new touch screens
By John Biggs, Crunchgear.com Now that the Internet is blowing out a kidney over news coming out of Asia that Apple bought up a bunch of touchscreens, I thought it might be nice to posit what Cupertino has in store for those babies. The report then names Quanta Computer as the manufacturer “of Apple’s new [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Google to Make Its Own Netbook?
By Chris, Mobilewhack.com What better way to start the week than with rumors about netbooks? Besides an Apple netbook which is said to be in the works, a Google netbook is also rumored. And it’s all in the words of Google’s CEO Erick Schmidt: What’s particularly interesting about netbooks is the price point. Eventually, it [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Apple Netbook to Arrive in Q3?
By ChrisMobilewhack.com The Apple netbook has been denied by Steve Jobs and Co. more than once already as such a device didn’t fit with Apple’s view. We’ve had various rumors and leaked images too but Apple has never shown any interest in the netbook market. That’s why this might be just another rumor. According to [...]
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