Back in September, the Packard Bell Dot was announced. It was a re-badged 8.9-inch Acer Aspire One. Now, according to Pocket-lint, the dot is going to be discontinued, even though it never actually made it into the retail channels. It had been scheduled to be … Read more
Given all of the interest in the NVIDIA Ion platform and its abilities to handle HD content, as well as some of things being said as well as the rebuttals, Intel has discussed the performance of it’s upcoming GN40 chipset when paired with its Atom … Read more
A few days ago, I mentioned that the “Special Edition” Samsung NC10 (NC10-11PBK) that’s available exclusively through Amazon.com had a price drop (down to $469) and had started shipping to those who pre-ordered it. The NC10-11PBK has a 6-cell high capacity battery that boosts the … Read more
Dow Jones Newswires is reporting that “two people close to the situation” have told them that Apple will be launching a touchscreen netbook as early as the second half of 2009 (from July on). This follows yesterday’s report from DigiTimes/Commercial Times concerning a touch screen … Read more
Netbooks, Sub-notebooks, ultraportables, whatever you want to call them, Microsoft is trying to figure out how to maximize their revenue from potential Windows 7 sales, without causing the manufacturers to go with an alternative. This is an issue that Microsoft has been looking at for … Read more