Archive for August, 2009

Third party 8 cell battery for the Dell Inspiron Mini 9

Although Dell has an on-again, off-again love affair with the Inspiron Mini 9. The company has announced the discontinuation of the product at least once or twice, although the 9-inch netbook has a way of constantly appear in the Dell store.
But if you are able to buy a new Mini 9 next month [...]

The Lenovo Idea Pad S12 launch delayed

The handsome with NVIDIA ION Lenovo S12 looks like when it comes to the launch of Windows 7 from Microsoft to be postponed in October, this is just the latest in a long series of delays that have led us to here, where someone is waiting for one of these machines.
To make [...]

Ultra-Thin MSI X-Slim X600 Now Available

MSI has the X-Slim X600 ultra-thin 15.6-inch laptop PC based on published CULVER Intel platform.
Weighing 4.6 pounds with a 6-cell battery and measuring 0.98 cm thin, the X600 packs an ultra-low voltage Core 2 Solo or Celeron processor, the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4330 graphics card with 512 MB dedicated, up to [...]

MSI launches the Wind U210

The Wind U200 is still to make it in Europe, but strangely, MSI have decided to launch two variants of the U200 to the MSI Wind U210-002 and the MSI Wind U210-010 are essentially adjacent to the store.
Features:

Processor: AMD Athlon Neo MV-40, 1.6 GHz, 512 KB L2 cache, 800 MHz HT
Memory: 1GB DDR2
Display: [...]

Sharp intros 5-inch UMPC with Ubuntu

Sharp Japan has today a new entry into ultra-mobile PCs with the PC-Z1, unlike the Netwalker known. Unlike most UMPCs, which are based on either Windows or Linux versions of the custom, the PC-Z1 Ubuntu Linux 9:04 used as a platform.
The process is carried i.MX515 800MHz Freescale CPU, there exist only 512 MB [...]

Duo sensor turns any display into a touchscreen

This little doohickey you can in principle with a special pen to treat a laptop screen, as if it were a touch screen. You can write, you use a keyboard on the screen, or tap on the display.
Now it looks like Tablo has a little competition. The duo does pretty much the [...]

Nokia to launch ARM smartbook next year

Now that the 3G Nokia Booklet (announced), its first netbook, it is clear that the Finnish company will not stop here when it comes to this type of device.
DigiTimes cites for Taiwan-based handset makers, who say that Nokia prepares to work with ODMs for the development of ARM-based SmartBook to discuss.
Said SmartBook will [...]

Hannspree Handsnote Netbook Available in the U.S.

Last month, a Netbook with the name Hannspree Hanns grade shown on the British market. Well, who would have thought that, despite no special features and functions that this Netbook would come to the U.S. market?
Well, believe it or not people, you can your hands on the Hanns Netbook note if you [...]

Suzuki Neutron 701 MNI tablet netbook and Neutron 1021 available at Philippines

It looks like the 7-inch Touchscreen Tablet Netbook by Suzuki, which we told you about the other day is already on the hook in the Philippines (and possibly other parts of Asia). The Suzuki MNI 701 neutron Tablet Netbook, packing-7.1-inch WSVGA touch screen TFT LCD, 1.3 GHz Intel Atom Z520 processor, [...]

Dell partners with Nickelodeon

The computer manufacturer Dell, in collaboration with Children’s TV channel Nickelodeon, a special edition Netbook is aimed at the younger computer users, or maybe not!
The Netbook can be personalized with characters from the channel shows how SpongeBob SquarePants and iCarly. And Nickelodeon, with links to online games and video content.
Features:

10.1-inch display [...]