According to word coming a recent a conference Intel attended (IT Supply Chain — sounds boring, doesn’t it?), it would appear that the silicon giant had a few interesting, and surprising, things to say about netbooks, namely that they seem unconvinced that this is going to be a large market. This seems to be the exact opposite of what we, as consumers, have been seeing for the past year, but maybe Intel’s sages have wisdom we do not. (more…)
The original MSI Wind netbook, otherwise known as the MSI Wind U100 netbook, was a huge success, and likely still is. The Wind has developed a reputation as one of the better overall netbooks out there for a variety of reasons: value, construction quality, flexibility, and a nice keyboard. So what’s the solution to a mostly non-existent problem? Make it better. (more…)
I was poking around doing a little follow-up on some of the more active stories we’ve had in the past and found that out one of the first machines to be sporting the AMD Athlon 2650e is actually out in the wild, and man what a price! (more…)
It looks like Dell has been busy and they’re starting to get their new 12″ netbook. the Dell Inspiron Mini 12 netbook out to reviewers. Of course, I don’t rate high enough on the list to get one, but I’m happy to tell you what others have been saying about the Mini 12. (more…)
I’m not sure how to read this, exactly, because it may be easier to overstate what is actually happening. Remember VIA and how I keep mentioning their Nano? The Nano is their CPU that actually puts up a fight against the Atom, and in many cases, eclipses it. Well, it’s been taking a long time for it to come out, and in light of HP dumping them for Intel, VIA’s netbook possibilities may be under fire. (more…)