Netbooks, Pricing, and the Used Market

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

Netbook and Subnotebook Differences

Differences between Netbook, Subnotebook, UMPCs Netbooks (SL Netbook Listing) A “netbook” is kind of a new trend in the mobile computing industry. This segment consists of low-budget, small laptops (displays of 10-inches or smaller), that mirror larger laptops in many ways (physical keyboards, expandable storage, … Read more

Apple Looking at an 11.6-inch MacBook Air?

Did Quanta land an order for an overhaul of the 13.3-inch MacBook Air? Digitimes is reporting that they did, and that it would have an 11.6-inch LED-backlit display. They believe they will ship up to half a million by the end of this year, which … Read more

Asus UL20FT-A1 Reviewed (LAPTOP Magazine)

Mark Spoonauer has put together a review for LAPTOP Magazine of the fairly recent Asus UL20FT-A1 from ASUSTek. It’s a 12.1-inch ultraportable laptop with a 720p display – 1366×768 LED backlit display, and it does come with an HDMI port. While it lacks an internal … Read more