Chad O.

Samsung NC10 Hands-On (LAPTOP Magazine)

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Over at LAPTOP Magazine, Joanna Stern has her hands on a new 10.2″ Samsung NC10 netbook, and she’s posted a video along with her impressions. This is not their final review unit, but they took plenty of pictures of keyboards – the NC10 is fast … Read more

Acer Aspire One Review (Tech Addicts)

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Tech Addicts has posted their review of the Acer Aspire One. Specifically, it’s a Aspire One A150X. The A150X differs from A110L models quite a bit – it’s got the 6-cell battery, an upgraded HDD (160GB of space), Windows XP Home, 1GB of RAM, and … Read more

Apple: Notebook Event on October 14, 2008

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Apple MacBook Air Next Tuesday, October 14, 2008, there will indeed be an Apple event after all, and it will definitely be notebook oriented (which matches with some of the rumors we’ve seen recently).

AppleInsider has the details – an invitation sent to the media yesterday shows what appears to be an aluminum Apple notebook with the words “The spotlight turns to notebooks.“.

The event will be at the Cupertino headquarters of Apple at the “Apple Town Hall” at 10:00am (Pacific) next Tuesday. As AI points out, this has been used to make Mac-related product announcements in the past. Earlier this year, the venue was used to launch the new aluminium iMacs.

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Lenovo Upgrading S10, Dropping Prices

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Lenovo IdeaPad S10 The Lenovo IdeaPad S10 netbook is barely even out (people just started receiving their S10s in the past few weeks) and already it appears that Lenovo is tweaking some things.

First off, they’ve dropped the price by $40 down to $399 at the US online store (except for the red model). $399 now gets you:
– 1.6Ghz Intel Atom CPU
– 512MB RAM
– Windows XP Home
– 80GB HDD
– 3-cell battery

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MacBook Changes in October?

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Earlier this month, there were reports that the 13.3″ Apple MacBooks would be updated sometime this year (aluminum body, styling more in line with other aluminum Macs, etc.). Now AppleInsider (and earlier this month Daring Fireball) are reporting that sometime next month, Apple maybe holding … Read more