Netbooks Boost Notebook Market

Netbooks (or Mini-Note as they call it) are hot, (pun intended) and their market is growing. DisplaySearch, a market research company, has released a new report that takes a look at the netbook market (and the notebook market in general). They claim that the netbook … Read more

Toshiba NB100 Review (APC Mag)

APC Magazine has reviewed the 8.9″ Toshiba NB100 netbook, and it wasn’t pretty. They felt, among other things, that it was hurried and was a “me too” product, calling it “perhaps the most pedestrian of all the netbooks we’ve seen to date“. Toshiba gets credit … Read more

Toshiba Portege A605 Launches

Earlier this week, Toshiba’s Digital Products Division announced the launch of the 12.1″ Toshiba Portege A605, a budget / consumer-oriented version of the R500 / R600 series and part of the Toshiba Portege A600 line. Among the new features: “USB Sleep and Charge ports” – … Read more

Toshiba NB100 Hands-On (TR)

TrustedReviews has gotten their hands on the upcoming Intel Atom-powered 8.9″ Toshiba Satellite NB100 netbook and have posted several of their impressions of it. Keep in mind these are engineering / pre-production sample units of the NB100 / NB105. The NB100 they had access to … Read more

Lenovo, Toshiba Add WiMAX Models

The 13.3″ Lenovo ThinkPad SL300, along with the Lenovo ThinkPad X301 have new models in their lineup (or will I should say) that are WiMax-enabled (4G). They are meant for use on Sprint’s high-speed XOHM network (launched earlier this week in Baltimore). The ThinkPad T400 … Read more