Sony VAIO Officially Revealed, Dissected

After teasing us back in December, Sony has finally taken the wraps off of the 8″ Intel Atom-powered Sony VAIO P Series. It’s not quite a notebook – the starting price is $899 and it has an interesting form factor and resolution. The 8″ display … Read more

Dell Inspiron Mini 9 – New SSD Option

In a sign of things to come (hopefully), Dell is now offering a 64GB Solid State Drive (SSD) option for Ubuntu Linux-equipped Inspiron Mini 9 netbooks. An example configuration of the 8.9″ Intel Atom-powered Inspiron Mini: – $499 (USD) – 512MB DDR2 at 533MHz – … Read more

MSI X320 Hands-On (LAPTOP Mag, SlashGear)

LAPTOP Magazine got a hands-on with the new 13.4″ 16:9 Intel Atom-powered X Slim X320. The X320 they tried out was running Microsoft Windows Vista Basic. This is interesting – they mentioned that the 8-cell battery that MSI claims will give the X320 up to … Read more

Easy Peasy for Netbooks 1.0 Released (aka Ubuntu Eee)

Easy Peasy 1.0, previously known as Ubuntu Eee, was released earlier this week. This distribution, obviously based on Ubuntu Linux, is/was originally optimized for the Asus Eee PC lineup, but it looks like they are branching out, since the new website officially calls it “easy … Read more

Windows 7 Beta 1 for Public Testers – This Week

Those of you without access to development builds of Windows 7, the official Windows 7 Beta 1 for public beta testers will most likely be released towards the end of this week. Mary Jo Foley at ZDNet.com has spoken with a source who believes that … Read more