August 20th, 2009 by ketyung
Most users hate to wait for their netbooks or laptops booting up. Like me, I’ll always leave my netbook in standby or hibernate mode as I do not wanna wait for the couple of minutes that a laptop usually takes to boot up.
But, the upcoming Asus netbooks or laptops will be exceptional as they’ll be pre-installed with the Diskeeper Hyperboot Instant-on technology which offers almost instant boot-up time on the Asus netbooks or laptops.
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August 18th, 2009 by ketyung
Suzuki is the name always associated with bikes and cars. But Suzuki now wants to share a bite of the “netbook” cake, having created their first netbook called Neutron 701 MNI, which features a 7.1 inch touchscreen display.
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August 1st, 2009 by ketyung
iiView – the Singapore-based company has produced a mini laptop, called the A2, which looks pretty much alike the super thin and light MacBook Air. On the inside, the iiView A2 is just an average netbook, with extra RAM and hard drive storage space. And little worth to mention, it’s dropped the Windows XP, it’s either to run the Windows 7 RC1 or Windows Vista.
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July 29th, 2009 by ketyung
The Archos 9PCtablet is a powerful tablet PC, which should be useful for those who want a secondary yet tiny and portable computer to bring along. It can be an alternative to netbook, if you do not mind that it has omitted the physical QWERTY. Being a tablet PC, it features a touchscreen display and presents you a virtual QWERTY on its touchscreen display.
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July 27th, 2009 by ketyung
Netbooks normally lack the graphical processing and HD video playback capabilities found on desktops or powerful laptops. Terracode, in their project, has made it possible on the Acer Aspire One netbook to handle up to 1080p HD content.
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July 21st, 2009 by ketyung
LG has announced a special Levi’s edition of its LG Xnote mini X120 netbook in Korea. As shown in the picture, the Xnote mini netbook will come with a laptop sleeve that is made from the Levi’s jeans.
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July 7th, 2009 by ketyung
Take note, the next generation of netbooks will run a different operating system i.e. the Google Chrome OS. Google plans to launch the Google Chrome OS for netbooks in 2010 and of course in their plan, they will also wanna sweep away Microsoft such as the outdated Windows XP (about 8-year old) and the bad one like Vista etc.
The Google Chrome OS will be super lightweight that runs as fast as what the Google Chrome browser does. In fact the Chrome OS is basically the web as an OS, developers can develop applications for it just as what they would develop on the web, pretty similar to the approach that WebOS for Palm Pre takes. Google says the architecture of this Chrome OS will basically be the current Chrome browser running inside “a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel.” And some more it’ll be open-sourced like the web browser.
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July 1st, 2009 by ketyung
Inkia – the Chinese company that makes OEM MIDs, has added two new models, a 5-inch and 7-inch into its line. The two new Inkia MIDs are powered by the Intel Atom processor and they offer both 3G and WiFi as the Internet connectivity.
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June 29th, 2009 by ketyung
Netbooks do not come with built-in DVD player, in order to maintain their compact size. Thanks to Logitech, having announced a portable DVD player which should be a great companion for netbooks, and allows the users to playback movies on DVDs while on the run.
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June 25th, 2009 by ketyung
Netbook users who wanna have dual displays, can choose to have the Mimo mini USB monitor. It’s slightly bigger than your palm, which should be pretty easy to carry around. It gives you an extra 7-inch display with 800×480 pixels to your netbook, so you can perform multi-tasks by having dual displays with your netbook.
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