Samsung NC20 Battery Benchmarks

NetbookNews.de has published some battery benchmarks of the new VIA Nano-powered 12.1″ Samsung NC20. Sascha has now had the chance to work with both prototypes and production models from Samsung. This is netbook/ultraportable that’s being followed closely by quite a few people, as it’s the … Read more

Apple Releases MacBook SMC Update 1.3

Today, Apple released an updated firmware/SMC update, 1.3. The purpose is to improve startup performance on certain MacBook models when booting off of battery power. It affects 13.3-inch polycarbonate (“white”) MacBooks released earlier last month. Some of those had the following issue: …may display slower … Read more

Toshiba Picks Up Fujitsu’s HDD Business

Fujitsu Limited and Toshiba Corporation have announced today that Fujitsu will be transferring its hard drive (Hard Disk Drive – HDD) business over to Toshiba, through the creation of a new company. Fujitsu will move its HDD-related assets and business into this new company, in … Read more

LG X120 – More Information, Press Release

LG X110 Back in January at CES, the new 10.1″ LG X120 had been demonstrated by LG. Last week, an LG Xenia (Xenia = X, X110 or X120) had been recently mentioned as a candidate for one of the netbooks/ultraportables that AT&T was considering offering through their stores (along with data plans/contracts). This week at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) LGE has began talking about specific details of the sequel to their LG X110.

The major differences over the X110 – it’s got a “Smart-On” system, which is another type of “Instant-On” functionality. The X120 is also going to be geared towards mobile broadband carriers.
It also has “Smart-Link” which is similar to some of the software that Apple uses when people migrate their data from one Mac to another or allowing the MacBook Air to use another computer’s CD or DVD drive. Smart-Link allows you to use a USB cable to copy data from another machine to the X120. The press release mentions that you can use Smart-Link to transfer files from another computer’s CD or DVD drive.

Previously we had mentioned that it had a 10.2″ widescreen display – in fact it has a 16:9 10.1″ display, with a resolution of 1024×576

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Asus Eee PC 1000HE Shipping In a Few Places

If you cannot wait on the new Asus Eee PC 1000HE and you’re located in the US, you are in luck if you are willing to pay around $390. There’s quite a bit of interest in it – it’s got a fairly cheap price – … Read more