Tag: notebook

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.

The Toshiba NB550D comes with a 10.1-inch glossy display, but instead of running an Intel Atom CPU, like a typical netbook, the NB550D is based on the AMD C-50 CPU (1GHz) with ATI Radeon HD 6250 graphics. It also comes with a 250GB HDD & 1GB of RAM (it supports up to 4GB, but you’ll have up upgrade to a 64-bit OS).

Following on from the announced partnership between Nokia and Microsoft we thought this would mean the end of the MeeGo OS, this seems to not be the case as Fujitsu have just started shipping its MeeGo netbooks to selected markets.

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?

This range of connectors is able to provide high electrical performance in both low-voltage differential signalling (LVDS) and embedded Display Port (eDP) applications.

The Netbook Market in India 2011 report begins with an introduction to the different types of personal computers available in the Indian market. It then provides a brief introduction to personal computers including desktops, notebooks and netbooks. This is followed by the market size and growth figures for the desktop and laptops market in India as well as the market segmentation. It further explains the strategy being followed by different players to boost sales in India.

Opera Software, the maker of desktop Opera browser for Windows, Mac OS X and other devices, announced on Monday plans to create an entirely new browser from scratch optimized for web surfing on tablets.

The new browser will be based on and promises “the smoothest tablet and netbook experience on the market.”

Their chief of development Christen Krogh, explained in a written statement why Opera for tablets will be a fully featured release:

In 2011, tablets are a new must-have. Opera is creating waves with the first public preview of Opera for tablets. Opera for tablets brings the same trusted Internet experience to tablets and netbook PCs as users have come to love on their mobile phones and desktops.

Looks like Dell will be launching a new Latitude 2120 netbook at CES next week. The 2120 is said to have specs identical to the previous 2110, but it packs double the power thanks to a dual core N550 processor. It features 3 and 6 cell battery
options, a 10.1 inch display (with an optional touchscreen), 1 to 2GB of RAM, USB, Ethernet, and VGA ports.

The other interesting news about this latest Latitude is that it gets an optional Broadcom Crystal HD video accelerator. There’s no info about price or availability just yet though.

For the students in Hannah Estey and Rebecca Zavadil’s fifth-grade classes, Christmas came a bit early this year.

On Thursday, the Bristol Elementary School fifth-graders all received new Dell netbooks to use at school and at home through the end of the school year as part of the education portion of the “e-Vermont” grant awarded to the town earlier this year.

In May, Bristol was one of 12 towns to receive a portion of a $3.8 million grant meant to boost community access to Internet resources. e-Vermont goals for Bristol include improving the town’s web site, creating public wireless hotspots and developing programming related to the new resources.

The grant also provided the 40-plus netbooks to the elementary school, along with training for both students and teachers by representatives of e-Vermont’s partner, Digital Wish. Digital Wish is a Manchester-based nonprofit whose goal is to get technology into schools and enable students to enter “tomorrow’s workforce.”

New technology promised by both AMD and Intel next year means two things – at least. There will be bargains on notebooks and netbooks to be had when AMD introduces Fusion products and when Intel goes full on with Sandy Bridge. These technologies also promise far better performance if you’re one of those who simply must have better technology.

Intel and AMD are likely to make announcements on their roadmaps at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas in early January. Although we’ve no hard and fast details yet of exactly what the two companies are going to announce, it’s public knowledge that AMD is ahead on its production of Fusion chips, which essentially have both graphics processors and CPUs on one die. That’s very likely to give quite a performance jump, and AMD has publicly said that it has several vendors lined up to produce netbooks, notebooks and even tablets using the Fusion chips.