Archive for February, 2010
Today Only: Acer Aspire One Netbook and Accessory Kit for $239
If you are looking for a low cost netbook, today may be the day for you. Woot.com, the famous deal-a-day website, happens to be quite fond of bringing you netbook deals. Today only you can get a refurbished Acer Aspire One AOD250 10.1†netbook with an accessory kit for $239. Remember, this deal is only [...]
Microsoft Office Alternative: OpenOffice.org (free and handles/creates MS Office files)
Be sure check out our previous Microsoft Office Alternative post (Google Docs). Microsoft Office is a compelling software suite which offers a lot of industry-standard tools for document, spreadsheet, and presentation creation (as well as a few others.) And while MS Office is very useful, it is also priced significantly (starting at $150). Wouldn’t it [...]
Vpad Tablet from iiView is a netbook as a slate
Now that the iPad has been announced many other companies are introducing slate style devices. One example is the iiView vPad tablet. This small device wieghs under 2 pounds and features a 10.2″ touchscreen running Windows 7 Starter. The iiView Vpad starts at $499 for 1GB RAM and a 160 GB hard drive and goes [...]
Dual-Screen Notebook Will Have You Seeing Double at 17.3”
Rocking what appears to be a design similar to the Kohjinsha DZ/Onkyo DX, the GScreen Spacebook 17 will feature two 17.3†screens for when you need a lot of screen real estate on the go. This might seem like a novel idea, but let me just say that I wish I had one of these [...]
Acer Aspire One 532g – First with NVIDIA ION 2 and Optimus
We’ve been hearing about NVIDIA ION 2 powered netbooks and NVIDIA Optimus graphic technology, which can save battery life by intelligently switching between mobile graphics solutions, since CES and now we get our first look at a netbook that puts it all to work. The Acer Aspire One 532G was just announced by Acer and [...]
Samsung planning a Chrome OS Netbook
Like many other major netbook makers Samsung has confirmed that it is working on a Google Chrome OS powered netbook. The confirmation came at an event in Australia at which several new Intel powered netbooks were unveiled. Phil Newton, head of Samsung IT, told attendees that Samsung Australia would launch a Chrome OS netbook before [...]
HP Bringing Its First Smartbook to Spain, the Airlife 100
HP Spain has just recently announced the HP Airlife 100, the company’s first foray into the smartbook space. As a quick refresher, smartbooks are essentially netbooks with phone hardware and often a non-desktop OS, like Google’s Android. Their advantages are good battery life, great standby time, and (hopefully) cheap pricing. The Airlife 100 is likely [...]
Unboxing the Lenovo IdeaPad s10-3t with 8 cell battery
NetBookNews got their hands on the Lenovo IdeaPad s10-3t multitouch netvertible (netbook/tablet) device for a proper unboxing and to make it even more special, they have the version that comes with the 8 cell battery. This version of the IdeaPad s10-3t should last close to 10 hours and comes with the Intel Atom N450 processor [...]
Top 5 Operating Systems for Netbooks
In addition to upping the number of individuals who enjoy computing on the go netbooks have done one thing that notebooks have largely failed to do; bring attention to what operating system you are using. While the majority of netbook owners still want that familiar Windows experience, netbooks have shown many individuals alternative operating systems [...]
Today Only: Lenovo IdeaPad Y550 (15.6”) for $519
One of our favorite deal-a-day sites, Woot.com, has a nice laptop deal for you today. For $519 you’ll score a brand new Lenovo laptop sporting an Intel Core 2 Duo CPU running at 2.1GHz, 4GB of RAM, a 320GB HDD, and a 15.6†screen with a 1366×768 resolution. Probably the only real downside to this [...]
