Netbooks to Drop in Price Even Further

There are starting to be large price reductions for netbooks across all display sizes and manufacturers (and storage options). Among those seeing price cuts: – 8.9″ Acer Aspire One, both the SSD/Linux and HDD/Windows XP versions. – Asustek Eee PC 7″ Eee PC 4G Surf, … Read more

Photos, Some Details of Samsung Netbook

A few more photos and details of the 10.2″ Samsung Netbook (that’s the only name we have for it at this point) have emerged. We already know it’ll be powered by a 1.6GHz Intel Atom CPU and have a standard 2.5″ HDD (80GB – 160GB). … Read more

Netbooks to Get Larger Hard Drives

DigiTimes is reporting that Microsoft is officially revising the restrictions it had placed on netbooks in regards to manufacturers selling Windows XP Home, and this is in line with what we saw back in July. The restrictions had been bumped up to allow for 160GB … Read more

Intel Announces New Mobile CPUs

At the Intel Developer Forum last week, Intel announced the general availability of the same types of Merom-based CPUs that are currently powering the Ultra-lightweight 13.3″ Apple MacBook Air. This was speculated back in

20 Million Intel Atoms in 2008, Sony and Fujitsu Netbooks

DigiTimes is reporting that Intel is going to ship 20 million Atom CPUs this year. Yes, that’s right, 2008. With the majority going into netbooks, that’s pretty impressive. The news comes from a report published by the Chinese-language Commercial Times, and it says that Intel … Read more