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As expected, aigo held a press launch for their P8860 MID today in Hong Kong, at the Mongkok MK1 Super Digital Mall. Sadly SlashGear wouldn’t pay for me to fly there, but UMPC Fever stopped by to watch aigo execs take the wraps off of the 4.8-inch touchscreen Silverthorne device. They also managed to score [...]
Microsoft has released to the OLPC project the specially tweaked version of Windows XP that will be offered on the XO notebook. The new version of the machine should be available in September, according to James Utzschneider, General Manager of Marketing and Communications for the Unlimited Potential Group.
It only really took Vista to make thousands of geeks look more fondly at Windows XP, and so Microsoft’s announcement that it would be maintaining the last-gen OS for use on low-power netbooks was well received. The devil, of course, is in the details, and that’s an area Microsoft excels in: one of their more [...]
This past week we’ve been able to take a closer look and get a hands-on with the Toshiba Satellite Pro U400. Having already shown you the unboxing, it was time to see just how usable the U400 was in practice. We had high hopes for portability, and we weren’t disappointed; this small laptop hasn’t been hard to carry [...]
Achieving the balance between flexibility and ease of use isn’t straightforward, as Microsoft have found with their Windows Mobile OS. Yes, there’s bags of functionality and a whole army of developers creating add-ons, but the result can be intimidating and actually make completing simple tasks harder. The company appears to be going more context-specific with [...]
We already know how much it’ll cost (read: plenty) and that its smaller 901 sibling holds up well performance-wise, but so far in-the-wild footage of ASUS’ Eee PC 1000H have been pretty rare. Having gone on sale in Taiwan last Wednesday, TweakTown managed to find someone with stock and have shot an unboxing video together with [...]
Only a day after announcing the latest update to the TouchSmart PC range, HP management has told reporters that the company expects MultiTouch - where a display responds to simultaneous contact from more than one finger - to make it into consumer products “long before” the launch of Windows 7. Microsoft has recently confirmed that [...]






