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Engadget has posted some videos of a pre-Beta version of Microsoft Windows 7. The videos come from WinHEC (Windows Hardware Engineering Conference). With Windows 7, Microsoft is promising faster startup and shutdown times, as well as less overall power consumption (leading to better battery life … Read more
Hugh Macleod over at gapingvoid (via GottaBeMobile) has written a review of the new 8.9″ Dell Inspiron Mini 9 netbook. He calls it his “coffee shop computer” and talks about carrying it around, including on an overseas trip, and compares it to a replacement for … Read more
It looks like NVIDIA and VIA Technologies won’t be working together on VIA Nano netbooks, as well as Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) according to a report by DigiTimes. Earlier this year, they had agreed to work on netbooks powered by C7-M and Nano CPUs produced … Read more
First reports of the third-party 9-cell batteries for the 10.2″ MSI Wind U100 are coming in. Wired Magazine mentioned a thread over at the MSIWind.net forums where somebody ordered one off of ebay. They mentioned that currently, you are looking at over 4 hours with … Read more
We’ve already seen a few instances of Windows 7 on netbooks. Now HP Mini Guide has loaded a Windows 7 Pre-Beta on a VIA-powered HP 2133 Mini-Note. Keep in mind the VIA CPU used (C7-M series) was underpowered compared to the Intel Atoms, etc., that … Read more