Speaking of non-mainstream AMD-based netbooks, here’s another one, although it’s not nearly as powerful as the Everun Note (which is using a regular AMD dual-core CPU versus this AMD Geode). Specifications: – LX 800 AMD Geode CPU (500MHz) – 8″ Widescreen display – 1024×600 – … Read more
I’m not the only one talking about the prices of netbooks over the past few days – Matt Richtel over at the New York Times “Bits” section is talking about it as well. Yesterday saw Acer dropping the price on the Aspire One by a … Read more
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
I’ve written about this in the past – the pricing of some netbooks / sub-notebooks and how some of them seemed a bit high. Now we are reaching a point where there is some real competition (from Acer and Lenovo). Last month, we saw a … Read more
Akihabara News got a hands-on look at the Intel Atom-powered 5.6-inch Fujitsu LifeBook U2010, akak the LOOX U/B50N (aka U820). They worked with the 60GB HDD version, rather than the 64GB Solid State Drive (SSD) version. They mentioned that the 4-cell battery provides for 11.1 … Read more