Acer Chairman JT Wang briefly mentioned Acer’s 8.9″ Acer Aspire One netbook in a discussion about Acer’s finances, shipments, and goals for this year and next. Notebooks as a whole accounted for almost 63 million of the 139 million total PCs that Acer shipped in … Read more
Some additional specifications for the Intel Atom-powered 8.9″ Toshiba NB100 netbook have been released, in the press release for today’s Toshiba Dynabook NX announcement. Nothing too major (that we didn’t already know), outside of the memory appearing to be limited to 1GB, which is strange. … Read more
Akihabara News has word of a new 12.1″ LED-backlit ultraportable laptop from Toshiba, the Toshiba Dynabook NX. Poking around the web, we found the official press release, and some of the stats are very impressive. The Dynabook NX follows on the heels of the 12.1″ … Read more
Sometime soon, the Intel Atom-powered 10.2″ Lenovo IdeaPad S10 will be available at Circuit City, both online and in-store (online page). Other netbooks such as the 8.9″ Acer Aspire One are already available at the US electronics retailer in-store (or were – the Aspire One … Read more
There’s no doubt that netbooks have been wildly successful. Ultraportable laptops in the 11″ and below range have always done fairly well in Asia, even before the netbooks came along, but the netbooks have been more successful in other parts of the world than many … Read more