We’ve been hearing about a 10.2″ version of the 8.9″ Intel Atom-based Acer Aspire One for a while now. TG Daily is reporting that Acer has slightly different plans for taking the larger members of the Asus Eee PC family. This includes a 10.2-inch netbook … Read more
Looks like when Sony said “We have to participate—, they weren’t kidding, and already had a netbook in the works. There has been a recent FCC filing for Sony in the US, with a couple of models listed, as well a size and some specifications, … Read more
VIA has rolled out its roadmap for the future of its Nano CPUs last week, according to Eee PC News. There was a show in Japan (Embedded Technology 2008) that showcased low-powered devices. For netbooks, don’t hold your breath for dual-core Nanos anytime soon. VIA … Read more
There were several major CPU-related announcements for netbooks released over the past few days, along with some more information about dual-core Atoms and how they might potentially fare in netbooks. ARM is going to use the ARMv7 architecture to make ARM Cortex-A8 and A9-based netbooks … Read more
A couple of more ultraportables have had Microsoft Windows 7 pre-beta installed on them, with information / benchmarks listed. UMPC Fever has a forum member who installed Windows 7 on a Fujitsu U2010, which worked great, from the included screenshots. They were able to use … Read more