Windows XP smartphone – ViewSonic VCP08

The ViewSonic VCP08 is another smart phone that runs Windows XP. It’s a clamshell that comes with two screens, which the outside screen measures 2 inches and the inner screen measures 4.3 inches that is where the XP runs.

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Kohjinsha Dual Screen DZ Series laptop

Kohjinsha has rolled out their Dual Screen DZ Series laptop in Japan. This dual-screen laptop was once just a concept and Kohjinsha has managed to make it to come as a real product.

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Google Chrome OS on a USB flash drive

The Google Chrome OS is a web-centric operating system, which every application will be web-based and launch in a browser. And the OS itself is just a launchpad of the browser. If you wanna try out the Chrome OS on your netbook, now you can get the Chrome OS on a USB stick, allows you to boot it and run on your netbook.

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Samsung GO 3G netbook

Samsung GO 3G netbook is coming its way to the AT&T, with integrated 3G, riding on the AT&T 3G network, allows the users to be connected to the Internet anywhere they go. The Samsung GO 3G can be considered an improved version of the Samsung GO N310 that was shown in July and gets relaunched now with the Windows 7 OS.

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Windows 7 starter edition with limitations, upsets netbook users

Netbook users are totally upset by the Windows 7 starter edition as the new OS comes with limitations, which you didn’t get with Windows XP on netbooks. Most netbook users were unaware of the limitations although Microsoft have openly said that the starter edition can’t do everything.

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ZiiLABS’ ZMS-08 – media accelerator chip brings Full HD Blu-ray quality to netbooks

Low-power mobile devices such as netbooks will be able to let you enjoy full HD contents on them in near future. ZiiLABS, a subsidiary of of Creative Technology Ltd has announced the 3rd gen of their media-rich app processor, ZMS-08, which promises better processing power for full HD contents on low-power mobile devices.

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Apple’s next Mac OS X updates will kill Hackintosh netbooks

If you love the Apple Mac OS X but you love more the portability of a netbook, what you can do is to make your own Hackintosh netbook by making use of software hack to install the Mac OS X on a netbook.

But rumors seem to tell that Apple would plan to have updates for their OS X Snow Leopard operating system, which the next release would not come with the support of Intel Atom processors. So if you’d proceed for an update of the Mac OS X on your netbook, the consequence could be your Hackintosh’d stop running.

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Litl Webbook – a TV convertible netbook

All the netbooks that we’ve seen before almost all come in similar styles and form factors. But the Litl Webbook is exceptional which it has no hard drive, stores its data on the Internet and it can be flipped around into a TV device.

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USB Windows 7 installer best for netbooks

Microsoft has officially released a tool, called Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool (WUDT), which allows the creation of a bootable USB installer for its Windows 7 OS. USB installer provides the convenience for installation of the Windows 7 on netbooks, which eliminates the need to hook up an external DVD drive.

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Michael Dell doesn’t recommend Netbooks!

I’ve got a Dell Inspiron Mini 10 netbook, which I use as one of my computers, even to do some of the PHP applications development and occasionally some GIMP when needing to resize the pictures such as for posting on TechChee.com

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