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Thursday, 05 March 2009 12:04

UnderNetbook: A tale of two markets

Is there really a battle between Windows and Linux to dominate the netbook market, or is it a phoney war that will end in peaceful coexistence?
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Saturday, 21 February 2009 19:07

Dell: All Your Netbooks Are Not Belong To Psion

Dell desperately wants a bigger share of the netbook market, but it also wants to be able to call them netbooks and is taking the trademark fight to Psion.

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Saturday, 21 February 2009 08:17

Android Asus Eee PC due by year's end?

A news report suggests netbook pioneer Asus has assembled a team to put Google’s Android OS on its popular range of Eee netbook PCs, but as the project is still “in development”, an Android Eee is not guaranteed.

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Friday, 20 February 2009 09:54

Dell, HP go head to head with 10 in net/notebooks

Two of the world's leading PC vendors have announced 10 in mini notebooks with similar specifications in the same week.
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Wednesday, 28 January 2009 20:10

ASUS fighting at the top may spawn new brand

The Pegatron Eee anyone? This week Taiwan "Business Today" magazine broke the news of titanic power struggles between Asustek chairman Johnny Shih and OEM breakaway boss Tung Tsu Hsien, strongly suggesting Hsien will establish his own brand.
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Wednesday, 28 January 2009 13:14

Eee Top - top in touch but top in price, too?

The touch revolution arrived long ago but has been getting refined ever since, and while the iPhone has shown the way, the Eee Top aims to bring touch screens to the masses at a price that’s cheaper than HP’s touch screen computers but still expensive compared to netbooks. Given the Eee Top uses an Atom processor, can we expect similar pricing for touch capable netbooks, too?

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Monday, 26 January 2009 18:26

Jolly new cloud computing netbook OS seeks to bring market back to Linux

Out of nowhere, an independent software developer has produced his own fast and fancy netbook operating system. It promises lightning boot times, an iPhone-esque icon-studded interface, modern cloud apps. The secret ingredient is Linux.
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Thursday, 15 January 2009 08:59

ASUS CES showcase products on the way to Australia

It’s one thing to showcase some great new products at the Las Vegas CES, but the big question is when those products will hit local shores. ASUS has come forth with a pronouncement on when some of its products will go from showcase shelf space to the retail showroom floor.

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Wednesday, 14 January 2009 10:48

Vodafone makes $0 Dell 3.5G netbook deal even cheaper!

If you were tempted by Vodafone’s $0 upfront Dell Mini 9 netbook deal with 5GB of mobile broadband at $69.95 per month over 24 months, but haven’t yet taken up the offer, Vodafone has just sliced $10 off the monthly price – and is throwing in three months of free access to boot, making the deal cheaper still. Nice! (and story is UPDATED).

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Saturday, 10 January 2009 12:20

Loading Windows 7 beta 1 on the Dell Mini 9 netbook - take note!

Do you have a Dell Mini 9 netbook and you want to try out the latest Windows 7 beta 1? Here’s what you need to check first – no matter which computer you are using.
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Friday, 09 January 2009 11:05

Eee PC and Eee Box gain free Norton security software - but only just

Buyers of ASUS's Eee family of netbooks and nettops will come with a preinstalled copy of Norton Internet Security. Trouble is, they only get a very limited free look before being expected to sign up as paying customers.
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Wednesday, 07 January 2009 16:22

CES VEGAS: AMD to reveal Yukon Platform for Ultrathin Notebooks

The annual technology orgy that is the Consumer Electronics Show kicks off in Las Vegas this week, and foreplay has already begun with AMD announcing that the much hyped Yukon platform has found a hardware home.

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Tuesday, 06 January 2009 16:45

Dual-screen laptop madness from Lenovo

Think of the two most popular laptops trends, namely big screens and small screens. Now put them together and what do you get? Yep, the Lenovo ThinkPad W700ds with one big screen and one small screen. Is this genius or simply the maddest laptop ever?

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Wednesday, 31 December 2008 12:23

2008: A year of the Linux Distillery in review

As 2008 draws its final breath let's reflect on some of the highlights of the year. There were major new FOSS releases, battles with Microsoft, arguments to further the cause of Linux as a viable server and desktop platform and more.
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Monday, 29 December 2008 16:45

Cease and Desist: the netbook war of words

Have you got one of those small, cheap sub-notebooks that have proved so popular thanks to the likes of Acer and ASUS? Better not set up a website about them or the trademark police might track you down.

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Wednesday, 24 December 2008 19:57

Windows 7 beta 1 download mania wants to start

With a select group of beta testers around the world supposedly already using the Windows 7 7000.0.081212-1400 official beta 1 build, global impatience over the non-appearance of a torrent is reaching boiling point – at least for some - but no download is yet available, and people are getting impatient!

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Wednesday, 24 December 2008 06:12

New iPhone nano photo tips up, looks faaaake

Macrumors has published a “concept photo” of an iPhone nano next to a standard iPhone 3G, but it looks like a photoshopped shrinking of the beloved existing model, and thus looks totally faaaaaaaaaake. What do you think?

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Tuesday, 23 December 2008 13:46

Dell Mini 9 'œBattery Scandal' is explosively heated BS

Faulty third-party battery testing software is at the root of claims that Dell is shipping a 3-cell, 24Wh battery in its Dell Mini 9 netbooks, says Dell, which claims it has always shipped a 4-cell 32Wh battery – as advertised.
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Thursday, 18 December 2008 16:48

Dumbass consumers squander netbook experience by rejecting Linux

ASUS created the whole netbook market single-handedly with the ASUS Eee Linux PC. The diminutive portable sold in numbers far beyond expectations catching both ASUS and its competitors by surprise. Fast forward to today and Microsoft have gained the upper hand. In this instance the customer isn't right and by rejecting Linux end users are missing the best experience they could have.
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Thursday, 18 December 2008 14:27

2009: Year of the Linux Delusion

An article has come out claiming (yet again) that 2009 will be the year of Linux, and bases this prediction on the fact that low power ARM processors will be in netbooks which won’t have enough power to run Windows, but then says these new netbooks will be geared to “web only” applications which suits Linux perfectly. And, oh yeah, Palm might save Linux, too.

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