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When Sony released the Vaio P, it was sure to point out that the Vaio P was not a standard netbook.  Sony, like Apple, hated the “race to the bottom” that is the netbook market.  It stubbornly pushed the Vaio P as a small laptop; while it was nice looking… Continue Reading »

It seems that Samsung is going all wild and daring with their upcoming netbook offering.  It’s going to be Nvidia Ion platform based, with an Intel Atom N-series CPU and an 11.6-inch display.  By having the screen be that size, Samsung breaks Intel’s restrictions on netbook panel size, which maintains… Continue Reading »

Several days ago, we learned that Nokia and Intel announced a partnership in which they hope to create new, innovative products.  According to Daniel Amir of Lazard Capital Markets, he foresees Nokia adopting the Android technology to incorporate in a netbook by 2010.  In addition, the Android netbook will be… Continue Reading »

Remember everyone laughing at Palm’s Foleo?  Well it seems many would be open to such a device now.  Foleo was essentially a dummy terminal that relied on connectivity and data from your mobile phone to run.  The immediate advantages being all your information on a bigger screen and keyboard than… Continue Reading »

With new netbook announcements slowing down a bit, it’s a lot easier now to stand out as a new netbook than it was a few months ago.  With these slower releases we’re starting to see more specialized netbooks targeted at particular markets.  The new HP Mini 5101 is a great… Continue Reading »

Check out the gallery: HP 5101 in real life

Unfortunately the details are still pretty light on this one, however according to Bloomberg, Anand Chandrasekher of Intel will be announcing that Nokia is going to begin using Intel chips. This news is expected to come later today during a conference call.  But in addition to announcing that Nokia will… Continue Reading »

If you’ve decided to take the netbook plunge, you’re probably going to want to streamline the programs you use and get rid of any “crapware.”  The real question is what applications do you really need for a netbook?  Netbooks are meant to browse the web and take advantage of web… Continue Reading »

Just recently the Dell Mini 9 product listing has been going on and off of the Dell website.  This led many to wonder whether the site was being updated or if Dell had other plans.  Initially, I had thought it a little strange, in part because the Mini 9 seems… Continue Reading »

I recently decided to install the Windows 7 Release Candidate 1 on my netbook, an Asus Eee PC 1000HE, which had been running Windows XP on 2GB RAM.  Getting Windows 7 installed in the first place was a bit tricky since the netbook has no optical drive, but this was… Continue Reading »

Lat week we saw Asus’s Italy-only ATI GPU-equipped netbook.  It looked to be promising, making it possible to do more graphically intense tasks than standard netbooks.  Now it might seem a bit outdated, however, as Lenovo is finally bringing a new chip base to netbooks. The Lenovo IdeaPad S12 is… Continue Reading »