Tag Archive for 'notebook'
If you’re anything like me you’re having trouble keeping up with which budget ultraportable has been released and which hasn’t; MSI’s gleeful announcement of their Wind notebook is next up today, complete with the boast that it’s the first such 10-inch device to feature Intel’s Atom CPU. Of course, ASUS’ Eee PC 1000 also has [...]
Acer’s entrant to the budget ultraportable fray, the Aspire One which we first saw last week, has been made official. As expected, the notebook is based on Intel’s 1.6GHz Atom processor, has an 8.9-inch display (though 1024 x 600 rather than 1024 x 768 as was predicted) and comes as standard with a Linux OS [...]
Although most of the specs and other details have already leaked, ASUS has finally pushed out the official press release for the new Eee PC 901, 1000 and 1000H. The three machines will all be offered in Windows XP and Linux variants, with a choice of black or white casings. While the Eee PC 901 [...]
I’m sorry if it’s seemed somewhat budget ultraportable heavy today, but the pre-show news out of Computex keeps spilling through the wires and we can’t help but lap it up. Latest tidbit is the partial spec-list for the soon-to-be-announced ASUS Eee PC 1000, the notebook expected to be the largest in the Eee range. Up [...]
Rumors are flourishing that Sony are the first name connected with VIA’s OpenBook ultraportable reference design, which the chip company unveiled last week. The leak came from the WiMAX Expo currently being held at Taipei, with manufacturer Quanta Computer showing an OpenBook-based notebook which turned out to list Sony as its manufacturer.
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Having recently scaled back its plans to integrate WiMAX into every Eee PC 901, instead making the high-speed mobile broadband technology “an option”, ASUS are demonstrating a version of the budget ultraportable at WiMAX Expo Taipei. Engadget China stopped by the booth and took these photos; they’re saying the demo models use Intel’s Link 5150 WiMAX/WiFi-N chip. However, according [...]
The major news this week came out of Google’s IO Conference, with the Android team unveiling the latest build of the mobile platform and a slick touchscreen handset to demonstrate it on. We usually leave cellphone news to our sister sites PHONE Magazine and SlashPhone, but the Android handset - complete with compass-navigated Street View [...]
Feel free to groan and say “not another one”; photos purporting to be Acer’s challenge to the Eee/Wind/2133/etc range of budget ultraportables have shown up, together with some basic spec details. Believed to be called the Aspire One, the notebook has an 8.9-inch, 1024 X 768 display. It also, apparently, runs Windows XP SP3 and [...]
Crave UK has been spending some hands-on time with one of the key upcoming rivals to ASUS’ Eee PC, the MSI Wind, and come away singing its praises. They’ve also highlighted some neat hardware features, such as an overclock button that, when on mains power, automatically ratchets the CPU up by 20-percent. On battery, the [...]
Mere weeks after ASUS confirmed it would be loading the quick-launch Express Gate Linux OS onto all of its upcoming motherboards, the software developers behind the distro, DeviceVM, have announced that several ASUS notebooks will also include it. The M70T, M50V and M51Vr multimedia series and the F8Va/Vr series will be the first five models in [...]
