HP is announcing a CULV product, the dm3. It is being touted as a CULV 2010 product. Here are the relevant specs: 13.3″ display 1″ thick 3.99 pounds 6 cell battery, 7.5 hr runtime Three USB ports, one of which is shared with an eSATA port Pentium U5400 processor CoolSense Technology The dm3 will start at $549, and is available for order now. [HP] [HP [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 30, 2010
The Asus Eee PC 1215N jumps the gun, sporting a dual core Atom, but it is not the N550 which has been recently announced. Rather it uses the more desktop D525 Atom, which is a more current version of the 330 which found its way into a few portable products. Rounding out the package are [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, August 29, 2010
The Acer Aspire One 721 is an 11.6″ netbook. The heart of the machine, is notable as it is not another Atom, and is the AMD K125 processor, which runs at 1.7 GHz. While it is a single core product, a year of architecture enhancements may put it on par with some other parts out [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Just in case you thought that Asus needed one more netbook, these does appear to be another in the works. The Asus Eee PC 1015PEM will be the next to join the swollen Asus netbook stable of netbooks. The 1015PEM will feature an Atom N550, which is a dual core part running at a 1.5 GHz [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 23, 2010
The netbook has been stuck at a certain performance level for years now. The Atom N270 gave way to the N450, and then the N455, and along the way the performance did not significantly change. Now, Intel is finally releasing a new part that will give the netbook a boost. The N550 will bring dual [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, August 22, 2010
So far the OlivePad has been for India, but it may spread into other parts beyond too long. It is a GSM based device, that can do 3G, Bluetooth and WiFi. The screen is 7″ which makes it too large to be a phone based device, and too small for the tablet purists. However, if [...]
Continue reading...Friday, August 20, 2010
The Acer Aspire One 533 has been making the review rounds. Most of the parts are indeed standard netbook fare, including the 10.1″ LCD, the 1 GB of RAM, the 250 GB hard drive, and the integrated GMA 3150 graphics. So far, no standouts. The interesting part is the processor. While it is an Atom, it [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 19, 2010
Years ago, as computer prices dropped, there was often talk of the so called $100 computer. We never quite reached it, and a notebook for less than $500 was perhaps as close as an affordable computer that well, someone was actually gonna want to use as their main system. So now CVS is planning out a [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 18, 2010
One of the key components of a netbook is the hard drive. While typically today, this is a mechanical device, often 160 or 250 GB, this was not always the case. Early netbooks, in order to keep the weight down, and maximize the battery life, used flash cards as the main system memory. However, in [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 17, 2010
The Asus Eee 1015N is rumored to bring some serious hardware to the table. This latest netbook will bring the netbook into the dual core era, with an Atom no less. The processor will be the N550, the first dual core Atom designed for the mobile space, and road warriors will be pleased with the [...]
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