Quick Note - Small-Laptops.com - June 10 - June 13

Just a quick note, both of us are traveling which has limited our access. There will be a large update this coming weekend (June 13/14), with a big wrap-up of news out of Computex, as well as some more information about the Lenovo ThinkPad X200 (our source backed off for a few days due to NDA issues).

We’ll be covering the ThinkPad SL300 as well as the new 13.3-inch Voodoo Envy 133 which will be competing with the ThinkPad X300 and MacBook Air (the SL300 will definitely not be competing with either of those - having seen a photo we can’t publish, it’s definitely more for consumers/business and is not the type of laptop that would appeal to MacBook Air/X300/Envy 133 buyers).

Thanks,
D.C.

Computex Coverage at Small-Laptops.com

Over the next few days, we will be bringing you what amounts to a few dozen stories covering a lot of announcements that are coming out of Computex 2008, currently being held through June 7, 2008, in Taipei, Taiwan, so Small-Laptops.com will basically be Computex-only stories through the weekend - the stories will still revolve around ultraportable laptops and notebooks, it’s just that some stories and projects are getting pushed back to next week.

You can follow our coverage and read up on Computex here:

Computex at Small-Laptops.com

The above page will be updated as we post new stories / announcements, with the dates next to each. We are going to try and cover everything in the most comprehensive way that we can - as such, we are not going to be the fastest.

Next week, we’ll also put together a comprehensive summary of everything that was announced.

Some recommended websites to keep up on the Computex news.
- GottaBeMobile
- jkOnTheRun
- AVING.net

Thanks

Site Contact Info Fixed

We have fixed the Small-Laptops.com contact form and do apologize for any problems. As always, you can email us at ultraportable@gmail.com or news@small-laptops.com

Thanks,
D.C.

Site Update: April 13, 2008

As you can tell, I’ve upgraded the site template.

It should load faster (especially on dial-up connections), it should be easier to read and navigate, and it should work and look much better in a variety of browsers and languages (through Google’s translation tools).

It’s going to make it easier for us to add a lot more content as well.

If you notice anything weird, please refresh your browser (clear the cache). If you still notice anything weird, please contact us or post them in the upgrade thread in the forums.

Issues I’m aware of:
- There are a few broken links that we are tracking down. This could take a week or two (we have around 1000 posts and around 350 pages - not a lot of content, but enough).
- Some laptop pages may look a little weird for a few days until we update them
- Search may return full pages - I apologize, with the upgrade to the back-end of Small-Laptops that I did about a week ago, the code for the search was updated, and it returns search results slightly different. I’m going through the pages and updating them so that only a few lines from each page are returned.

Quick Update for March 2008

There’s been a lot of news in the past week (go go CeBIT 2008), and we’ve not posted some of it. We are currently working on an upgrade to the website design and forums, but will be getting back to posting news tomorrow. We are working on a better organization of the site and information, based on feedback from people (in regards to how they find the site, what they are looking for, etc.).

If you notice anything weird in the next week, just refresh your browser a few times and it should clear the cache of the old design.

Thanks,

Small Laptop / UMPC Driver Listings

You may have noticed we slowed down in the past few days. Since we are a huge staff of two people doing this in our spare time, sometimes we have to decide to focus on certain projects at the expense of other things (say posting a lot of news).

One of those has been tracking down drivers for everything we list on our site. While we still have to go back and update all of the individual laptop pages, below is a master list of drivers for small laptops, tablets, UMPCs, etc. We started working on this because we get quite a bit of email asking for help in locating drivers.

Unfortunately, some manufacturers have went under or merged with others or been bought out. Where we can’t find a driver page, we try to point you in the right direction (either contacts or similar models from other manufacturers). Obviously the list, like our list of small form factor laptops, is not complete - we have literally dozens of laptops to add. However, the list does, as we said, match what we do list, so people who show up here looking for drivers for a laptop we list will hopefully find what they are looking for.

Please Note: It’s primarily North American, English versions. We will, when possible, add non-English language pages as we find them or they are emailed to us.

If you would like to contribute more information or pages, you can either contact us directly or through the Small-Laptops.com Forums.

- List of Laptop Drivers aka
- http://www.small-laptops.com/laptop-drivers

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