The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Hewlett-Packard is working on touch-oriented devices, and will even roll out a touchscreen consumer-oriented notebook later this year. Keep in mind that while Tablet PCs might have touchscreens, not all touchscreens are used in a Tablet PC form … Read more
Acer and Asus both benefitted from netbooks, with netbooks helping Acer ship 47.3% more computers globally than this time last year, according to the Austin-American Statesman. That helps Acer get within distance of Dell as far as market share / shipments (Dell is #2 at … Read more
Almost everybody gives credit to Intel for popularizing the term netbook – when the Asus Eee PCs first started showing up, they were being called sub-notebooks, sub-laptops, mini-notebooks, UMPCs (which really confused things, as UMPCs generally had a specific form factor that they followed), ultraportables, … Read more
According to sources that DigiTimes has talked to, as well as Asustek’s president, Asustek has some very ambitious plans for the new 10.2″ Asus Eee PC S101 as well as their netbooks in general. Asustek Computer believes they can ship 50,000 S101s this month (a … Read more
I mentioned seeing an 8.9″ Asus Eee PC 900A netbook on display at a local Best Buy. I also happened to see some cases from Case Logic that appear to be designed for netbooks – they prominently mention 7″ – 10″ devices (the larger one … Read more