Archive for netbook

You are browsing the archives of netbook.

Samsung India to start selling notebooks again

Samsung India to start selling notebooks again

 
Samsung is a formidable player in the consumer electronics industry here in India but they have never been able to capitalize in the notebooks arena and thus had to pull out a few years back from the laptop business.
However, today our source associated with Samsung’s Indian division dropped a word confirming that they [...]

HIS dives into the netbook game

HIS dives into the netbook game

 
Graphics card manufacturer, HIS is the latest entrant in the netbook market. Their only netbook (looked like a production unit) was on display at the COM IT Expo in Mumbai, India. The specs are more or less similar to most of the netbooks currently floating in the market.
It has a 10.2-inch (1024×600 pixels) LED [...]

Asus announces Eee PC 904HA for India

Asus announces Eee PC 904HA for India

 
Asus today announced the 904HA Eee PC for the Indian market. This new netbook is an improvement over its predecessor in many aspects. It has an 8.9-inch LED backlit screen running Windows XP and features 1.6GHz Intel N270 Atom processor. The RAM is limited to 1GB only but the hard drive storage is bumped to [...]

HP expands Mini family with Mini 1000 netbook

HP expands Mini family with Mini 1000 netbook

 
HP’s Mini family got a new member in the form of Mini 1000 netbook. Though HP seems to be excited by the addition of three new netbooks, these are actually different variants of the Mini 1000. The variants are – HP Mini 1000, Mini 1000 Vivienne Tam Edition and Mini 1000 with MIE.
The common [...]

Lenovo IdeaPad S10e netbook for students

Lenovo IdeaPad S10e netbook for students

 
The marketing whizzes at Lenovo thought of something new to sell their netbook. They rebranded the IdeaPad S10 to IdeaPad S10e albeit with some minor changes to garner interest from students.
The S10e has a 10.1-inch display with a choice of running Windows XP or SUSE Linux. It also has a Splash Top powered Quick [...]

Dell intros Inspiron Mini 12

Dell intros Inspiron Mini 12

 
Dell makes a second addition to the Inspiron Mini line with the introduction of Inspiron Mini 12. The device sits nicely between the classification of netbook and notebook which makes us want to say it as a netnotebook. Anyways, moving aside its category, Dell has tried to spec this netnote pretty decently.
It houses [...]

MSI Wind U120 to come in next month

MSI Wind U120 to come in next month

 
According to the sources of DigiTimes, MSI is planning to launch a 3.5G equipped Wind U120 in November in Asia which further fuels the war of ‘the best netbook in 2008’. The unconfirmed specification that the netbook will carry are an Intel Atom N270 processor, 1GB RAM, 3.5G cellular connectivity, 120GB hard drive and Windows [...]

Samsung knocks on US doors with a slew of notebooks and netbook

Samsung knocks on US doors with a slew of notebooks and netbook

 
Samsung’s US subsidiary will soon be selling a decent range of laptops to fight for the market share this upcoming holiday season. They’ll also be letting loose its first netbook, NC10 soon for a modest price of $499.
Notebooks to be launched are – X360, X460, Q310, R610, P460 and P560. The first two notebooks, X360 [...]

Eee PCs may not die soon, touch screen Eees coming next year

 
From next year, we won’t need a mod to make this real as Asus will be announcing their touch screen enabled Eee PCs at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Samson Hu, GM, Eee PC business unit talking to Digitimes revealed their future plans regarding their best selling netbook. He also pointed out a cheaper (sub-$300) [...]

Asus S101 is officially official

Asus S101 is officially official

 
S101 has already shown its presence a couple of times before but now it’s rightfully official as Asus acknowledged it with a press release. Asus has managed this fashionista netbook to be really anorexic at 18mm and lightweight at around 1kg. It comes with an encrypted Eee Cloud Storage of 20GB and SSD up to [...]