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Black Friday, Part 2?

10. December 2009 | by Jonas

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Black Friday, Part 2?

With the bargains to be had, there was quite the fury for Black Friday.  However, with limited stock, not everyone got the item they wanted, although it would appear that netbooks were big sellers.  As the holiday shopping season is hardly over, it is easy to see why the retailers would want to do this [...]

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Acer Becomes Number 2 PC Vendor

14. October 2009 | by Jonas

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Acer Becomes Number 2 PC Vendor

I have an Acer machine, and chances are good that you might have one too.  While HP retains the number one slot, Acer has motored past Dell for the first time to become the number two PC vendor. Apparently, Dell has been more concerned with the profits, than with PC sales.  Yeah, like they think that [...]

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Toshiba Tablet Prototype

6. September 2009 | by Jonas

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Toshiba Tablet Prototype

With netbooks all looking like they were made with a cookie cutter, and Apple dragging their heels on a tablet, it makes sense for a company like Toshiba to work on their own tablet device.  Despite the obvious shortcoming of no keyboard, the advantage of portability could finally win out now powerful enough hardware could [...]

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Toshiba NB205-310 Gets Thumbs Up

7. August 2009 | by Jonas

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Toshiba NB205-310 Gets Thumbs Up

Toshiba is well respected for their laptops, and their freshman effort in the netbook market definitely got attention.  They released two models, and the NB205-310 is the more expensive of the two.  While the specs are fairly netbook standard, ie: Win XP, Atom N280 processor, 1 GB RAM, 160 GB hard drive, the overall package [...]

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Toshiba Minis Available Today

24. June 2009 | by Jonas

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Toshiba Minis Available Today

The Toshiba NB205-310 was spotted for sale today on both Amazon and Newegg. It features the slightly faster Intel Atom N280 chip, 1 GB of RAM, 10.1″ LCD (1024 x 600) and the 160 GB 5400 RPM hard drive.  It is running Windows XP.  It claims over a 9 hour battery life with the 6 [...]

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Toshiba NB205

2. June 2009 | by Jonas

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Toshiba NB205

Toshiba is bringing their newest netbook, the NB205 to the US market.  While it doesn’t break any new ground, it does handle the basics quite well. For starters, it uses the Intel Atom N280 processor which is slightly faster than the N270 on some applications.  Add in 160 GB hard drive, and the usual 1 gig [...]

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Toshiba NB200 Review

11. May 2009 | by Jonas

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Toshiba NB200 Review

The Toshiba NB200 (known as the Dynabook UX in Japan) is another example of the current crop of netbooks.  While the 160 GB hard drive, 1 gig fo RAM, WiFi and Win XP are all fairly standard, the Atom N280 is the less common faster processor. While the battery is a 3 cell unit, it doesn’t [...]

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