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Friday, Nov 13
Manufacturer claims attractive brushed steel netbook is lighter when it is closed
The cheap and shoddy designs of early netbooks are mostly a thing of the past. The the thick and bulbous chassises, the tiny trackpads, the bizarrely bifurcated trackpad button placement, all have been swept away. Today’s netbooks are sexy, colorful and sleek, and make the earliest netbo...
Wednesday, Nov 11
Asus’ latest netbook is 11.6 inches, runs Windows 7
Ever since the Asus Eee PC 701 first came on the scene, introducing the computer world to the netbook form factor for the first time, Asus has experimented with their netbooks sizes. The first Eee PCs were 7 inch affairs, but they — like the ultra mobile notebooks that were their evolutionar...
Thursday, Oct 22
Netbook users get Windows 7 USB drive install option
Netbook owners wanting to upgrade to Windows 7 face a problem – they don’t have a DVD drive in their machine. The way around that is to borrow or buy an external drive, but that just adds to the cost of buying the new OS if you have no other use for the drive afterwards. Microsoft [...]
Wednesday, Oct 14
Michael Dell is not a netbook fan
Netbook discussion begins 34 minutes into video Michael Dell has shown his disdain for the netbook during a talk on Tuesday in Silicon Valley. Even though Dell now has a range of netbooks for sale he made it clear netbooks are not what users want after that initial “shiny thing!” effect has w...
Wednesday, Oct 7
Sony’s Vaio X is the thinnest netbook yet
Sony’s Vaio P was the sexiest netbook at CES this year, despite the fact that Sony wandered around adamantly commanding bloggers not to call it one. Unfortunately, outside of sex appeal, it was a terrible device, barely capable of running the Windows Vista operating system misguidingly...
Thursday, Sep 24
Review: Lenovo IdeaPad S12 netbook
The 12-inch netbook is a strange beast. It’s a netbook (at least in terms of its Atom processor and a sub-$600 price tag), but sized like an ultraportable notebook. We haven’t seen many of them and we’ve seen a lot of indecision from the companies that have released them. Case in point, the [...]
Wednesday, Aug 26
Analysis: Nokia as a top netbook maker
So, Nokia goes PC with a 3G-enabled netbook. While pundits think that the company is acting out of desperation, because RIM and Apple are outpacing its growth in the smartphone sector by a large margin, analysts view it as a smart move and a much more significant milestone than netbook vend...
Wednesday, Aug 19
Lite-On release netbook-friendly external DVD writer
Although we are slowly moving away from physical media and towards digital downloads; when it comes to content and software sometimes you still have to deal with a physical disc. In the case of a netbook you don’t get a drive with which to read such disks and have to find an alternative or an [...]
Wednesday, Jul 1
Geek.com’s history of the netbook
This article is about the history of the term “netbook” as seen through the lens of Geek.com. We all know about the Asus Eee PC, but that product line only has to do with the reintroduction of the term. This article covers the history of the “netBook” and, as best we can, some of the [...]
Wednesday, May 27
Autobot Blaster transforms into Qosmio laptop / USB hub
Unfortunately, it's not a working netbook… but it's worth remembering that Blaster never transformed into a working boom box back in the 80s either. In fact, the new Blaster has one up on the old Blaster: while his laptop look might be just for show, ...
