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Asus Plans For Downright Cheap Chrome Netbook
With tablets all the rage (translation: lots of sales), it is high time that netbooks reinvent themselves. There are still inherent advantages to the netbook platform, and one is cost. Asus, by offering the Chrome OS from Google, and saving the cost of Windows licensing fees it targeting a $200 cost for a new netbook [...]
Continue reading...Google and the Last Cr-48 Netbook
13. March 2011 | by Jonas
Well, the bad news is that apparently Google sent out their last Cr-48 netbook. That is the one with the OS that is essentially the Chrome browser turned into the OS. Essentially everything is run and accessed through the browser, and stored in the cloud. On a personal note, I had signed up for the [...]
Continue reading...Splashtop OS
25. February 2011 | by Jonas
Google came up with their Chroimium OS, and a beta got released of netbooks preloaded with it. Unfortunately, the hardware got sent out to a handful of testers, and the rest of us cannot buy in at any price. If you want to have your netbook on the cloud with a Chromium environment, then the [...]
Continue reading...Fujitsu MeeGo
14. February 2011 | by Jonas
MeeGo has been an on again and off again affair. The MeeGo OS is an open source Linux project, that combines Moblin from Intel with Maemo from Nokia into one OS (this is one of the few examples of Linux distros combining rather than fragmenting). With Windows 7, there has generally been less interest in Linux [...]
Continue reading...Toshiba Preps Three Tablets
6. December 2010 | by Jonas
It is not a stretch to think that 2011 will be the year of the tablet. However, the market is young, and it remains to be seen what the dominant platform will be, as so far Windows 7 has not been a smooth transition to tablethood. In addition, it is unclear what size works best [...]
Continue reading...Google Netbook
24. November 2010 | by Jonas
Google tested the waters with their Chrome browser, and quickly started to gain market share as only the search engine giant can do when they enter a market. However, the Chrome browser is really a preview of something bigger, and there has been the promise of the Chrome OS. With the success of the Android OS [...]
Continue reading...Google Chrome Smartbook
2. November 2010 | by Jonas
While there has been much talk about smartbooks, they kind of never materialized. While the exact definition can vary, what sets them apart from netbooks is that they use a Linux based OS, and have an ARM chip, rather than the x86 one. Oh, and they are supposed to be even cheaper. Google had promised that [...]
Continue reading...Jolicloud Netbook
25. October 2010 | by Jonas
Jolicloud has been around for a while as a Linux distribution designed from the ground up for netbooks. It supports the common hardware for the portable computers. However, there is only a minority of the population that will want to load their own Linux distro, and even at free that is the barrier of admission. Well, [...]
Continue reading...Chrome OS
3. June 2010 | by Jonas
When folks here that a netbook is running Linux, and they run in the other direction, unless they are some ubergeek. Not surprisingly, users are simply more comfortable with the familiar world of Windows on their netbook. However, that may slowly change. After all, we have accepted that the iPad runs on an Apple smarthpone OS. [...]
Continue reading...Ubuntu Lite
10. May 2010 | by Jonas
Most netbooks use the Windows OS. Many have transitioned to Windows 7 Starter Edition with the latest crop of netbooks that is pushing out Windows XP. However, netbooks originally ran Linux, and now there might be a reason to go back to it. Netbooks have not gained much power. Make that any power in the last [...]
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HP TouchPad 4G
16. March 2011 | by Jonas
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