Asus Eee PC 1000HG Announced

Another member of the The Asus Eee PC family has been announced – this time it’s the Asus Eee PC 1000HG, and it will be available in Taiwan, at least for now. No word on release dates for other areas. Features include a Huawei 3G … Read more

Acer Ferrari 1200 Announced

It looks like Acer will soon be launching a sequel to the 12.1″ high-end Acer Ferrari 1100. Like the 1100, the new Acer Ferrari 1200 is also AMD-powered, running on a dual-core AMD Turion X2 Ultra on AMD’s M780G platform. The Ferrari 1200 definitely falls … Read more

NVIDIA CEO Interview – Ion, Netbooks, etc. (LAPTOP Mag)

Yesterday we mentioned that NVIDIA is telling people to speak up if they want to see companies selling products with NVIDIA’s new Ion platform. LAPTOP Magazine has conducted an extensive review with Jen-Hsun Huang, the co-founder, president, and CEO of NVIDIA, and he talked about … Read more

Netbooks and Screen Resolutions

Doug over at CrunchGear has written a commentary about the state of netbooks and display resolutions. It’s more of a plea to netbook makers, and I agree completely. We’ve reached a point where outside of a new platform (NVIDIA Ion) or new CPUs (dual-cores), there’s … Read more

Jolicloud – Cloud-Based Linux for Netbooks

Yesterday I mentioned Kuki Linux, an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution (or just the kernel if you prefer) centered around the 8.9″ Acer Aspire One. Today, I’m mentioning a different Linux distribution, one that is focused on netbooks in general, and that’s designed around using the internet … Read more