Fujitsu Limited and Toshiba Corporation have announced today that Fujitsu will be transferring its hard drive (Hard Disk Drive – HDD) business over to Toshiba, through the creation of a new company. Fujitsu will move its HDD-related assets and business into this new company, in … Read more
Ari Allyn-Feuer over at Ars Technica has put together a comprehensive series that looks at the history and future of netbooks, as well as where they stand these days. They go all the way back 15 years ago to the mid 1990s when HP rolled … Read more
I think many of us saw this coming. Even though netbooks started out with a heavy Linux influence, once Microsoft began relaxing their rules on Windows XP Home and netbooks, it was pretty clear that Windows XP would end up winning the netbook market. This … Read more
Netbooks (or Mini-Note as they call it) are hot, (pun intended) and their market is growing. DisplaySearch, a market research company, has released a new report that takes a look at the netbook market (and the notebook market in general). They claim that the netbook … Read more
APC Magazine has reviewed the 8.9″ Toshiba NB100 netbook, and it wasn’t pretty. They felt, among other things, that it was hurried and was a “me too” product, calling it “perhaps the most pedestrian of all the netbooks we’ve seen to date“. Toshiba gets credit … Read more