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Acer Unveils Aspire One Happy Netbook

admin — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 15:22:29 +0000

Adding to its Aspire range of netbooks, Acer has announced the launch of its new Aspire One Happy Netbook.

The Aspire One Happy Netbook is ultra-thin at only 24mm and weighs 1.25kg. It sports a 10.1-inch WSVGA high-brightness display with a 16:9 aspect ratio. Users can make the best of its 8-hour battery power back up on those long trips where access to electricity is a problem.

The netbook’s exclusivity lies in the dual OS that runs on both Windows 7 and Google’s Android operating system. It is powered by Intel Atom N455 processor with 1 GB RAM, and Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3150 along with an internal HDD up to 320 GB of capacity and a built-in multi-in-one card reader ensuring convenient storage and file sharing options for the user.

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A Dual-Core Atom Netbook From ASUS

admin — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 15:11:30 +0000

ASUS has been a big name in the world of netbooks for some time. One area where the excelled over the competition was in running times with some of their netbooks able to achieve over 10 hours of running time with standard web use. Now ASUS has updated their Eee PC lineup to include the new dual-core Intel Atom processor for additional performance. Is this extra performance worth the additional cost? Does it impact the battery life?

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Asus rolls out a new line of netbook accessories

admin — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 17:38:00 +0000

Asus has introduced a number of new accessories for the company’s netbooks and notebooks. On paper, the accessories don’t look all that different from items the company has been offering for the past few years. Ther eare new USB disc drives, hard drives, and mice, and some new carrying cases and power adapters. But some of the new models feature designs tailored to go with Asus computers such as the Lamborghini series notebooks or Karim Rashid edition netbooks.

Among other new products are a new Lamborghini wireless mouse which features the same sort of angular design as the company’s automotive-themed laptops, several new external hard drives with Karim Rashid designs on the cover, and accessory kits which will get you a mouse, carrying case, and DVD drive.

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Netbooks keep it light for the simple tasks

admin — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:32:43 +0000

THEY might have taken a back seat during the rise of the mighty tablet, but netbooks still have a place in mobile computing.

Originally cut-down notebook PCs designed for maximum portability and battery life, netbooks have evolved into serious computing devices in their own right. Some of the specs make it difficult to decide where the netbook category ends and notebooks begin. Still, some things remain relatively constant. Most have a 10.1in screen, a small keyboard and a lightweight low-power processor. They struggle with heavy computing tasks, but are good for web and email access, word processing and simple spreadsheets.

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Is it a phone? Is it a netbook? No, it’s the Motorola Atrix

admin — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 15:57:38 +0000

Motorola had a pretty busy CES this year as it rolled out a couple of pretty substantial products. The first of these was the new Atrix handset, which the developers believe could take convergence to a whole new level.

On the outside, the phone looks like a fairly standard Android device – albeit quite a handsome one. However, it’ll be powered by a currently unnamed dual-core 1GHz ARM processor, which gave it more than enough horsepower to slice through version 2.2 of the OS – although a move to Gingerbread could be on the cards by the time it launches.

The Atrix in the HDMI dock

However, there’s a lot more to the Atrix than its capabilities as a phone. Motorola has also developed the snappily named ‘Laptop Dock’ which will essentially turn the phone into an Android powered netbook. After plugging the phone in and waiting a few seconds, a full desktop will spring up on the vibrant 1,384×768px display, with the phone’s homescreen appearing in a small, movable window.

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Chinese netbook looks a lot like the Dell Inspiron duo

admin — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 17:28:35 +0000

The most obvious design feature of the Dell Inspiron Duo netbook is the cool swiveling screen that the convertible netbook uses to go into tablet or netbook mode. When you have a device that has an interesting feature like that, you can bet that other companies will tray and make something similar. The little machine isn’t pure duo knockoff though; it has some other elements to its design too.

The machine has a smallish 8.9-inch capacitive touchscreen with a resolution of 1024 x 600. It also has a webcam for recording video, runs Windows 7, and has a 7.4V battery with 3000mAh of power. The little netbook also uses 1GB of RAM and has a 20GB HDD.

The brain of the machine is an Intel Atom N450 CPU. The hardware should add up to an average netbook computing experience with a screen that swivels for tablet use. The name of the netbook is the Netvertible. Other features include dual USB 2.0 ports, audio jacks for private listening, VGA out, and a SD card reader. Pricing and availability are unknown at this time.

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Chinese netbook takes interesting road to tablethood

admin — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 16:55:03 +0000

The Dell Inspiron Duo is getting a lot of attention these days — not because it’s the first laptop that turns into a tablet when you tilt the screen. It’s because of how you tilt the screen. There’s no swivel letting you tilt the screen left to right like you’ll find on most convertible tablets. Instead, the screen flips inside the the lid, so you can close the lid like normal, but with the screen facing outward.

The folks at NewPad have found a Chinese computer that also has a screen that flips back to let you convert from laptop to tablet mode, but it’s not exactly a Dell Duo clone, because the whole lid flips, not just the display.

This isn’t a completely new idea. In fact, the Chinese notebook looks more like a Vadem Clio than a Dell Inspiron Duo. But it’s been years since I’ve seen anyone use this distinctive design.

The new computer features an 8.9 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel capacitive touchscreen display, a 1.66GHz Intel Atom N450 CPU, 1GB of RAM and a 120GB hard drive. It has a 3000mAh battery and runs Windows 7. There’s an SD card slot, Ethernet, VGA, USB and mic jacks, as well as a webcam and a series of buttons along the hinge that let you adjust the volume, toggle the WiFi, and perform other tasks quickly in tablet mode.

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Hot Tablets, Netbooks, and Laptops for the Holidays

admin — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 17:29:12 +0000

hen it comes to computing on the go, the choice used to be relatively simple: Get a laptop. These days, however, the options have expanded. Now, tablets and netbooks are in the mix. The trick is to figure out which device is best suited to your needs.

Laptops, of course, have long been the definition of portable, integrating most of the components of a desktop PC with the added convenience of mobility. Netbooks are essentially a smaller, cheaper version of a laptop, with less power, but much more battery life. Tablets, specifically tablets, come equipped with a touchscreen (and no keyboard), and either a Mac or Android interface. They are primarily consumer-oriented devices meant for entertainment and social networking.

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Dell Inspiron Duo: Not Your Ordinary Netbook

admin — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 15:49:38 +0000

With so many netbooks available in the market today, impressing an average computer-obsess geek proves to be a difficult and challenging task. The obiquity of netbooks have turned these light-weighted and smaller versions of the traditional laptop computers into an ordinary thing of the past. They all look freakin the same. No wonder companies are pulling their own gimmick, albeit unsuccessful for some, to set them apart from the rest. The Dell Inspiron Duo is no exemption.

Displayed under the statement “Sometimes you want to touch. Sometimes you need to type. With the new touch-sensitive, Flash-capableInspiron™ duo convertible tablet, you can do both in style. You can tell it’s Dell”, the Dell Inspiron Duo is a hybrid laptop/ tablet. With its 180 degrees swivel screen the netbook can instantly morph into a tablet. It is probably the first netbook to boast such functionality.

Launched last September 14, 2010, the Dell Inspiron Duo immediately caught the media attention. According to a blog review, the Inspiron Duo’s product demo– vertically rotating screen– was so impressive that the writer almost hit the ceiling when she first saw it. “It was like nothing we’d ever seen before,” as she puts it.

But of course the back-flipping swiveling 10.1 inch screen is not what it is all about. Inspiron Duo’s 1366×768-resolution display is partnered with an accelerometer, though interestingly not in the display itself. The accelerometer controls the screen orientation which means that when the screen is rotated, the viewing orientation doesn’t actually change until it is locked over the keyboard.

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Google-powered netbooks to be based in the cloud

admin — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 16:24:26 +0000

When Google’s forthcoming Chrome OS is released later this year, it will offer a new model of operating system that fully integrates a cloud computing model.

Since its release in 2008, Google’s Chrome web browser has become a serious competitor to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Mozilla’s Firefox. The new netbook-oriented Chrome OS is expected to be more like a web browser than other operating systems.

The new operating system is built on a cloud computing model that reduces the importance of local hardware by storing data and applications on remote servers. Chrome OS will not run applications directly, but rather will mediate between a computer’s user interface and cloud-based applications such as Google Docs, Gmail and Picasa.

Google has indicated that Chrome OS is will be released in late 2010. Netbook devices carrying the new operating system are expected to ship some time in 2011.

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