Somebody over in the UMPC Portal forums may have leaked pictures of what is being referred to as the “Acer Aspire One“, an 8.9-inch ultraportable sub-notebook / netbook powered by a 1.6GHz Intel Atom CPU. Going back to February of this year, it had been … Read more
A user over at the MSIWind.net forums states that they’ve acquired a sample Singapore MSI Wind. Whether it’s a manufacturing sample or a retail sample is not clear, this is the CPU identifier they have listed: …it’s reported as “Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270”, which further … Read more
Glenn Reynolds who is a Contributing Editor for Popular Mechanics, as well as law professor, author, and writer for Instapundit, wrote up a review last week for Popular Mechanics on the 8.9-inch VIA-powered HP 2133 Mini-Note PC. It’s written from the perspective of somebody who … Read more
PC Watch has obtained the desktop version of the MSI Wind PC. They ran some benchmarks against it, including against the Intel Celeron M-powered 900MHz Asus Eee PC 900 as well as the 7-inch 630MHz Asus Eee PC. Now while this may not seem like … Read more
Mini-notebooks / Sub-notebooks / netbooks – whatever you want to call them, they are hot right now. Turns out it’s not just sales and consumer interest that make them hot – they are also literally hot. Using a Dell Latitude D630 as a baseline comparison, … Read more