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Samsung NC10 Coming to US

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It looks like the 10.2″ Samsung NC10 netbook will be available in the US for under $500. liliputing has posted a couple of sites listed as selling the NC10 in the US for around $480 USD. Both are listing the NC10 as back-ordered. Bottom Line … Read more

Samsung NC10 Benchmarked

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The upcoming 10.2″ Samsung NC10 netbook has been unboxed and benchmarked by a Ukrainian site, Tech IT Easy. The design looks solid (which we’ve already seen), the sleeve for the NC10 looks nice. The comparison photos against 8.9″ Asus Eee PC 901 show that the … Read more

There Will be New MacBooks

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It’s now almost certain that there will be new MacBooks introduced in a few days at Apple’s October 14 notebook event. A PDF-format repair guide was accidentally posted on Apple’s website. It detailed how the Airport Extreme Card would be replaced, and it specifically said … Read more

MSI Wind U100 – $50 MSI Rebates

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Update: October 20, 2008 Some of the prices have already dropped again: US – MSI Wind U100-016US (Black) – Amazon.com – $399.99 (After $50 Rebate) – MWave.com – $399.99 (After $50 Rebate) US – MSI Wind U100-030US (White w/Love/Heart Design) – Amazon.com – $429.99 (After … Read more

Acer Aspire One – WiMAX

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Netbook Almost a month ago, at an Acer global press conference held in Budapest, Acer made some announcements in regards to where it was going to be expanding the 8.9″ Aspire One lineup. Among those announcements and discussions, were that 3G options would be added in some areas as early as this month, while Acer planned on adding WiMAX capabilities by 2009.

Well guess what? Mark Spoonauer at LAPTOP Magazine managed to temporarily get his hands on what maybe the first netbook (or at least one of the first) to officially have Mobile WiMAX capabilities. Officially in the sense that some netbook owners have already been modding their netbooks to add in this or similar capabilities.

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