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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?

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.

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.

Brad Graff, director of gaming platforms for Intel (NASDAQ:INTC)’s Ultra Mobility Group said, “The Intel Atom processor, combined with Razer’s expertise in bringing gaming solutions to market, will help make it possible for consumers to have a powerful gaming experience in mobile devices.”

The NB505 comes with the typical netbook specs including an Atom chip, Windows 7 Starter, a 10.1 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display, 1GB of RAM and a 250GB hard drive. It’s available in blue, green, brown, orange, or turquoise. It doesn’t have the ability to charge USB gadgets while the computer is turned off, something that the pricier NB305 offers.

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.

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.

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 [...]

Chrome OS is definitely a little more confusing since Google already has its own Chrome. A Web browser along with an operating system, called Android. However, Google claims that all ambiguity will be over by the end of this year, when the company plans to launch their first lightweight ‘netbook’ computer that runs Chrome publically. Though Google has yet turned down any query to details about this up-coming device, it is much expected for it to be manufactured by some other company and worthily be branded by Google itself – just like the way it’s done with Nexus phone, which runs on Android.

Google is not facing its rivals Microsoft and Apple with Chrome OS, which are renowned for their operating systems and other day-to-day software’s like Microsoft Office, Apple iPhoto or iTunes. Such softwares are no use for these Chrome computers. Instead considering it to be a total online-operating-system, Chrome users would use other online-tools of Google like Docs instead of Microsoft Office, Picasa instead of iPhoto, Docs for word processing, Gmail for e-mail and much more. Google has full intentions to open a Chrome app store for software developers to dream up other Chrome tools.