Coming from the ‘Down under” of Australia, Acer is coming out with their Aspire One Happy 2 netbook. Yet another example of a netbook name that hardly rolls off the tongue. It is the revamped version of Acer’s bestselling netbook. The Happy 2 is a 10.1″ display netbook, in a 1.3 kg package. There is a [...]
Continue reading...10. July 2011 | by Jonas
Samsungs’s NC215S offers some serious solar technology, with photovoltaic cells across the lid. It promises to bump the runtime up an hour for every two hours of suntime. For unplugged computing in the desert, this might be the ticket. It was first announced last month, and now Amazon has it up for preorder. Aside from the [...]
Continue reading...29. June 2011 | by Jonas
For all of Acer’s shortcomings, they do one thing quite well, and that is to undercut the competition. On a personal note, I do own two of their products, and while not the absolute highest quality, they do both get the job done. The AOD257 makes one wonder why should anyone trade Windows for a Chromebook [...]
Continue reading...8. June 2011 | by Jonas
The HP Pavilion dm1z is an example of an AMD Fusion based netbook. It actually has the slightly larger than a netbook 11.6″ display, that many of us think makes it incredibly more useful than the more mainstream 10″ display. Be that as it may, it has some reasonable specs: AMD E350 dual core processor, 1.6 GHz 3 [...]
Continue reading...9. May 2011 | by Jonas
HP introduced a bunch of new products today, and their HP Mini 210 is their latest netbook. However, while it just got introduced, it seems like last year’s model on Woot. It has the standard 10.1″ display, with 1 GB of RAM and a 250 GB hard drive which all make it clearly a prototypical netbook. [...]
Continue reading...8. May 2011 | by Jonas
The HP Elitebook 2760p has been spotted over at the FCC, and it is generating some buzz. Here is what is known… It will be a 12.1″ convertible tablet, and it is no stripped down anything, but more fuller featured which is should be given the $1500 starting price. For the money, it has a Core [...]
Continue reading...3. May 2011 | by Jonas
There have not been too many deals worth sharing lately, but this one I did want to bring to your attention. I am especially a fan of the 11.6″ display size, as the 10″ one that is the mainstream netbook size can definitely be a little limiting when doing anything other than email. Today’s deal is [...]
Continue reading...2. May 2011 | by Jonas
Samsung had come out with their 9 series of notebooks, and they are one of a few notebooks that can rival the MacBook Air in terms of sleekness. While it may please the Windows camp, unfortunately the price tag is up in Apple territory. It was promised that their would be a lower grade 7 [...]
Continue reading...25. April 2011 | by Jonas
Acer is looking to revise their Aspire One Happy to one of four colors. The chipset is being updated from the AOD 255 to the AOD 257 platform. What that translates to is that the Intel N570 chip will be powering the Happy, which is the latest Atom. Rounding out the specs are 2 GB [...]
Continue reading...31. March 2011 | by Jonas
Gigabyte is shipping their dual core netbook, the M1005. The specs are fairly decent: 1.5 GHz, Intel Atom N550 processor, dual core 10.1″ display, LED backlit, 1024 x 600 1 GB RAM GMA 3150 graphics 250 GB hard drive Bluetooth 3.0 1.3 MP webcam 4-in-1 card reader Two 1.5 W speakers 4 cell battery Bundled docking station Windows 7 Starter Edition It can be ordered for $379 from [...]
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11. July 2011 | by Jonas
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