Fortune Magazine: Netbooks and Mobile Broadband

Back in December, AT&T and Radio Shack ran a promotion, offering the Acer Aspire One for $99 with a 3G AT&T DataConnect plan. We’ve seen other netbooks being priced incredibly low (or free) with mobile broadband contracts – it was mentioned in a recent review … Read more

Netbooks (Dell Inspiron Mini 9) and Photography

How does a netbook hold up when when compared to more conventional laptops used by professional photographers? Pretty well actually. Rob Galbraith wrote an article comparing three conventional laptops along with a netbook (Dell Inspiron Mini 9), looking at color accuracy, how useful are they … Read more

Dell XPS M1330 – $799

Dell Home and Home Office is running an 8-hour deal for what they are calling their cheapest XPS M1330 and 1420 offerings ever. It just started, and the offer is valid Jan 27, 2009, from 7 AM CT – 3 PM CT. Offer details: – … Read more

Netbooks and Screen Resolutions

Doug over at CrunchGear has written a commentary about the state of netbooks and display resolutions. It’s more of a plea to netbook makers, and I agree completely. We’ve reached a point where outside of a new platform (NVIDIA Ion) or new CPUs (dual-cores), there’s … Read more

Dell Inspiron Mini 10, Better Make That the Mini 9

Over at the MyDellMini forums, there is a thread with a couple of people who mentioned ordering what they thought were Dell Inspiron Mini 10s, only they received a Inspiron Mini 9 instead. Earlier this week, they had ordered them from Tesco in the UK, … Read more