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Today, at the Intel Developer Forum, Dell announced the new Dell Mini 10v as the first netbook to use Intel’s Moblin operating system.  Moblin is Intel’s idea of what a netbook OS should be and with the coming version 2.1, Moblin is designed for smartphones and Mobile Internet Devices as… Continue Reading »

Today began the Intel Developer Forum, a chance for Intel and a number of other companies to debut their newest computer technology.  It’s the perfect opportunity to see what’s coming up next in terms of computer hardware and will likely see a lot of new Windows 7 machines throughout the… Continue Reading »

The MSI Wind, a favorite for Hackintosh enthusiasts, has a new model out called the Wind U110 ECO.  MSI touts the battery life at over 15 hours on a 9-cell battery.  The specs are pretty much what you expect out of a netbook these days: Intel Atom processor (1.60GHz), 10-inch… Continue Reading »

Solid state drives are an attractive option to people who want a laptop that have no moving parts and/or want better battery life.  Picking a SSD option is usually quite expensive, but Active Media announced its new line of SaberTooth S3 Mini PICe SSDs for Asus Eee PCs with pretty… Continue Reading »

Netbooks are so 2008.  Get ready for the new wave of must-have devices dubbed “smartbooks.”  These smartbooks are small netbook sized devices running on ARM microprocessors used in smartphones.  Why would you build such a beast?  They’re cheap. According to PC World, Foxconn is developing less than five different models… Continue Reading »

HP looks to be the first manufacturer to use the new Intel Mobile Core i7 CPU.  In a pair of leaks from the company, we now know that not only is HP looking at the core i7, but is also working on a Consumer Ultra Low Voltage (CULV) laptop, a… Continue Reading »

For the past few months, I have been running the Windows 7 Release Candidate 1 on my netbook, an Asus Eee PC 1000HE.  While Windows 7 was great at first, as time progressed, it became sluggish.  So, thanks to our friends at Jolicloud, I got a chance to check out… Continue Reading »

It seems that anybody with even a vague reason to get into the netbook market has been doing so.  Toy stores started carrying them last year billing them as good computers for kids.  Cell phone carriers are subsidizing them with two-year data contracts, which makes a lot of sense.  Verizon… Continue Reading »

If there’s one thing Asus is good at, it is pushing out model after model of its netbooks and other Atom based machines.  Most of the machines tend to be rather cheap and very similar in everything aside from screen size, design, and price.  Previously the designs were all standard… Continue Reading »

Netbooks, while nice little computers, have become very boring.  The main difference between most of them is screen size, shell design, and the company logo on the lid.  Some may offer a choice between SSD and HDD or a 270 or 280 Intel Atom processor, but that’s about it.  There’s… Continue Reading »