Wired Magazine on Netbooks

Wired Magazine has written a comprehensive and fairly balanced article on netbooks. Whether it ends up in the November edition of the print magazine (I didn’t see it in October’s), I don’t know. I do know it was pretty well written and researched and it … Read more

Gigabyte M912M vs M912X

UMPC Portal has done a comparison between two models of the 8.9″ convertible Gigabyte M912 netbook – one of the very few netbooks that converts back and forth between a Tablet-style device and a regular laptop-style device. They are comparing the M912M with the M912X … 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

Sony VAIO TT Review (TT198UBX)

After their hands-on preview, LAPTOP Magazine has published their review of the pricey Sony VAIO TT series (TT198UBX). When I say pricey, it’s over $4,000 USD (the model reviewed) but it does have a large capacity 256GB Solid State Drive setup (SSD) along with a … Read more