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First Nvidia Ion netbook now available: HP Mini 311

Bad design and late to marketThe Ion chipset is essentially wasted on this. You have the Ion LE, which is a DirectX 9-only variant of the DX10-packin' Ion, on a netbook running Windows XP. There's no DX Compute shader option on Windows XP and there won't be in...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Chipsets, NVidia Corp., ASUS Eee PC, WTH, netbook, NVIDIA ION, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Discussion threads 2009-09-25

Gadget Gal's daily deals: Asus Eee PC netbook, TomTom GPS, Philips DVD home theater

Gadget Gal's daily deals: Asus Eee PC netbook, TomTom GPS, Philips DVD home theaterBetter Deal on Asus EEE PCFirst off, it's worth noting that the Asus EEE PC being offered by Woot is the 900A, not the 900. Yeah, I know, the headline of the deal there says it's...

Tags: Home entertainment, Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Consumer electronics, TV & Home Theater, Mwave, DVD, ASUS Eee PC, Asus EEE, ASUS, Gadget Gal, home theater, netbook, TomTom, GPS, Philips Electronics N.V.

Discussion threads 2009-06-08

Asus Eee PC Seashell 1101HA to have 11-hour battery life?

Asus Eee PC Seashell 1101HA to have 11-hour battery life?NiceSlap Windows 7 Ultimate on there and you have one heck of a computing platform!

Tags: Engineering, Asus Eee PC Seashell 1101HA, ASUS Eee PC, Asus EEE, ASUS, battery

Discussion threads 2009-06-01

Asus Eee PC spotted running Android, Qualcomm CPU

Asus Eee PC spotted running Android, Qualcomm CPUNiceEncode and decode 720p video, embedded GPS and cell modem. Can't wait to see what will be coming in the next few years. Time for the big pushIf ever there was a time for chipmakers to break the market away from the x86...

Tags: cloud computing, Utility computing, Storage management, Processors, PC, Qualcomm CPU, virtualization, Qualcomm Inc., ASUS, CPU

Discussion threads 2009-06-01

Quickfire Deal: $160 Asus Eee PC 900A

Quickfire Deal: $160 Asus Eee PC 900AAccording to Murphy's LawThat should be under $100.Those netbooks aren't even worth it now adays. You can get the 10.1" screen. 160GIG HD, and the ATOM 270 (1.8GHZ) processor. And 2gigs of ram for $299.RE: Quickfire Deal: $160 Asus Eee PC...

Tags: Asus Eee PC 900A, Quickfire Deal, ASUS Eee PC, Asus EEE, ASUS

Discussion threads 2009-05-08

New Asus Eee PC netbook with optical drive

New Asus Eee PC netbook with optical driveI don't think data backups are the reason for an optical driveYou have the SD card for that, or any USB stick would do as well. An optical drive gives you DVD and CD playback. That's the reason for it.RE: New Asus Eee...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, netbook, optical drive, notebook, Asus Eee PC Netbook, ASUS

Discussion threads 2009-03-30

Asus Eee PC 1000 (black)

We've been fans of the Asus Eee PC line ever since the very first 7-inch model kicked off the Netbook craze in the fall of 2007. A year later, Dell, Lenovo, and Acer all have small, inexpensive systems powered by Intel's Atom processor, but Asus still has the biggest selection...

Tags: Keyboards, Notebooks, ASUS, ASUS Eee PC, Asus Eee, Intel Corp.

Product reviews 2008-09-11

First reviews of the Asus Eee PC 900

First reviews of the Asus Eee PC 900want.nt.

Tags: Asus Eee PC 900, Asus Eee PC, Asus Eee, ASUS

Discussion threads 2008-04-17

Asus officially announces launch of Asus Eee PC 900

Asus officially announces launch of Asus Eee PC 900eeePC is awsomeI have had my eeePC for a couple of months now. I have the 7" 4gb model which originally came with Linux. I loaded a light version of XP in place of Linux which I could never master. I also...

Tags: Linux, Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Eee PC, ASUS, Asus Eee PC 900, eeePC

Discussion threads 2008-04-16

More competition for low-cost laptops

The Asus Eee PC is about to get a lot more competition in the emerging category of low-cost laptops. This morning HP made its Mini-Note official. Acer is reportedly working on its own 8.9-inch subnotebook. And Intel has big plans for its Classmate PC. The 2.6-pound HP...

Tags: Memory, Laptop Computer, Intel Corp., Asus Eee PC, CNET Labs, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Microsoft Windows XP, Processors, Operating Systems, Software, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-04-08

Asus Eee PC 900: The wow starts. . .later?

Asus Eee PC 900: The wow starts. . .later?no Vista and you're surprised?No surprise to me there, it's such a bloated operating system... Very nice suggestion with the lightweight Vista idea! Interesting comment from Microsoft exec too. Is this suggesting they are actually going to slim down and get rid...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Asus Eee, ASUS, Asus Eee PC 900, Microsoft Windows Vista, Asus Eee PC

Discussion threads 2008-03-06

Additional Resources

ASUS Eee PC 701SD - Celeron M 353 - 7" TFT

Excellent Utility "Box"This little unit is very useful in applications like a small company web server, e-mail server and file sharing server. We use it as a media server with good control over user permissions. It runs SuSE 11.2 except for the wireless network very well. Equipped with normal size...

Tags: E-mail, server, Intel Celeron M, TFT, ASUS, Intel Celeron

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

ASUS Eee PC 1005HAB - Atom N270 1.6 GHz - 10.1" TFT

If you like Customer Service, DO NOT GET AN ASUSBought one of these from Best Buy September 17 and by the power supply starts working intermittently in less than two months. Asus REFUSES to send a new power supply without receiving the bad one back. So I have to have...

Tags: Product marketing, Customer relationship management (CRM), ASUS, TFT

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

Zittergie's Coin Catalog 0.83.5 (Mac)

Zittergie's Coin Catalog is a software catalog and Manager for coins that runs on Linux, Windows and MAC OS 10.5 It is meant to be used on portable devices, so it is optimized for really small notebooks like the ASUS EEE PC, but it runs just as good on bigger...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Coin, Zittergie, Linux, Apple Mac OS, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Desktops, Notebooks, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Software downloads 2009-11-01

Acer Aspire Revo AR1600-U910H

Typically our challenges with the emergent Nettop category have been that real budget PCs cost just a little bit more and provide a dramatic performance uptick, and similarly priced Netbooks offer equivalent performance with the added benefit of portability. The Aspire Revo 1600's price tag alone answers those issues. ...

Tags: Wi-Fi, Performance management, Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Wireless and Mobility, Semiconductors, Acer Inc., wireless networking

Product reviews 2009-10-30

Asus Eee Top ET2002

Nvidia wants us to tell you that its GeForce 9400M graphics chip, aka Nvidia's Ion technology, pulls Asus' Eee Top ET2002 up from the depths of Nettop misery by imparting it with better-than-terrible graphics and video processing. We agree that the 9400 chip improves the ET2002's visual chops, but a...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Games, Semiconductors, Keyboards, Video cards, Game players, nettop, chip, game, HDMI, ASUS, graphics

Product reviews 2009-10-20

Michael Dell - Loves Windows 7, slams netbooks

O.o[i]Looks like Michael Dell is pushing for people to upgrade to the newest Dell laptops/desktops and Windows 7.[/i]He has to. It's how they make money.RE: Michael Dell - Loves Windows 7, slams netbooksNetbooks are about travel and portability. Am I going to give up my quadcore desktop? ...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Dell Computer Corp., Michael Dell, netbook, Microsoft Windows 7

Discussion threads 2009-10-14

HP Mini 311

The Netbook wars have heated up, with PC makers adding upscale features such as larger HD displays and faster low-voltage CPUs to systems, in an effort for push prices up past the usual $299-$399 range. We've seen HD Netbooks from Sony and others, usually with prices closer to $599, so...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Hewlett-Packard Co., netbook, NVIDIA ION, NVidia Corp.

Product reviews 2009-10-08

Macedonia rolls out 53,000 Classmate PCs

The government of Macedonia announced today that it was the first Balkan country to deploy a major 1:1 computing effort, deploying 53,000 Classmate PCs to all of the country's first through third graders. Perhaps just as importantly, the program also provides all 22,000 teachers in grades 1-8 with an...

Tags: Intel Classmate PC, PC, Desktops, Government, Hardware, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-10-06

Lenovo C300-3012 (Atom 230 1.6GHz, 4GB RAM, 640GB HDD, Vista Home Premium)

If we to adopt a relativist approach and consider Nettops apart from the larger desktop market, we might actually recommend the $549 Lenovo C300. It includes an uncommonly large 20-inch wide-screen display and performs better than many of its peers because of a slightly faster Intel Atom CPU. Standing in...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Wi-Fi, Desktops, hard drive, Lenovo Group Ltd., Lenovo C300

Product reviews 2009-09-23