LAPTOP Magazine’s 2008 Dubious Mobile Achievement Awards

LAPTOP Magazine has published the “LAPTOP’s Dubious Mobile Achievement Awards 2008” list, and netbooks were prominent (but not for the reason you maybe thinking). Asustek and their Eee PC family got the “Brand Dilution Award” for the numerous netbook models and naming variations they released … Read more

LAPTOP Magazine’s Best Notebooks of 2008

LAPTOP Magazine is publishing their annual lists of various categories (dubious, best, etc.). A few weeks ago, they put together their best notebooks list for 2008 after looking through 111 reviews. Netbooks definitely made LAPTOP Magazine take notice – they called 2008 “the year of … Read more

MSI EX300 Quietly Released

MSI has quietly released a new 13.3″ laptop, the MSI EX300. It’s based on Intel’s Penryn platform, and comes standard with 4GB of RAM, a 250GB SATA HDD, and an internal SuperMulti DVD Writer. It also features an HDMI port and a eSATA Port. The … Read more

Asus Eee PC 1002HA (LAPTOP Mag)

LAPTOP Magazine published a review by Joanna Stern today, of the new Intel Atom-powered 10.2″ Asus Eee PC 1002HA. They gave it 3.5 out of 5 stars, with a major hit on the battery life. That said, they consider it to basically be an Asus … Read more

Dell Mini 9 and Netbooks as a Development Platform

Scott Hanselman has posted a good writeup on the Dell Mini 9 from a developer’s point of view, and why netbooks are getting a bum rap by some. I’m actually surprised at the development environment he’s running on his netbook (including server software). He mentions … Read more