Toshiba Dynabook NX Announced

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

Lenovo S10 at Circuit City

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

The Success of Netbooks vs UMPCs and Tablet PCs

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

Lenovo IdeaPad S10 – Taken Apart

Speaking of the 10″ Lenovo IdeaPad S10 netbook, over at liliputing, a liliputing reader, Tommy Yoo, took his S10 completely apart. This past week has seen the first S10s starting to be shipped out to customers, and Yoo wasted no time in disassembling his. Yoo … Read more

Lenovo IdeaPad S10 with Solid State Drive

So what happens if you take the 10″ Lenovo IdeaPad S10 netbook and add a Solid State Drive (SSD)?? That’s exactly what Avram Piltch over at LAPTOP Magazine’s blog did, and they found it improved performance and battery life quite a bit. Keep in mind … Read more