Samsung N120 Netbook On the Way (OS X Install Imminent!)

Samsung N120 netbook - can't you see it's just dying to have OS X installed on it?

Update: Guide to install OS X on Samsung N120 netbook

Okay, so I’m a sucker for a big keyboard on a small computer, and within about 20 minutes of realizing that within the grossly obese pantheon of netbooks that the Samsung N120 netbook was actually available (and had been for about a week — oops). I know I haven’t mentioned this one here, but in case you’re wondering what makes this one special, well, two things: 10.5 hour (yeah, right, we’ll see about that) battery, and more importantly, full size keyboard. Read that again: full size keyboard.

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Asus Eee PC 1000HE Netbook Review

I take a different approach to doing reviews and prefer to look at real-world use, so let’s look at the Asus Eee PC 1000HE netbook with that idea in mind. Aside from actual user impressions, I’m going to include what it’s like to use this netbook with Windows 7, OS X, and possibly linux (but I don’t promise). I’m not going to bother with running all of the benchmarks and getting the numbers, however, so if that’s what you’re looking for, please read any of the other excellent reviews that are out there. (Here’s a spoiler: it performs as well as 95% the netbooks out there.) However, if you’re looking to find out what it’s like to actually use and work on, keep reading.

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Asus EeeBox PC B208 Dual-Core HD Nettop – Ultimate HTPC?

I missed this a week and a half ago, but for a little while there was a page or two on Asus’s site detailing the Asus EeeBox PC B208 nettop, though it seems to have magically disappeared now. I was actually looking for some more info on the Intel Atom 330 when I stumbled onto this discovery, but I think I may have finally found what I’m looking for in a TV computer: small, decent processor, non-crappy graphics, capable of playing HD video.

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Intel Atom N280, Intel GN40, Intel PineTrail Roadmap

So there’s been some confusion since it’s come out that the Asus Eee PC 1000HE netbook uses the Intel Atom N280, but doesn’t use the new graphics solution, the Intel GN40. Instead, this brand new netbook which isn’t even out yet is still using the crappy old graphics solution. Ok, we already know that, but here’s why Intel has decided to go this way with their netbook solutions. (more…)

NVIDIA Ion Benchmarks and Review

It looks like you can expect the NVIDIA Ion information to start rolling in any time now. I was doing some poking around and saw some benchmarks have been posted based on reference parts and figured with the recent talk about NVIDIA Ion and the Intel Atom N280/Intel GN40 that I wouldn’t be the only one intereted to hear how NVIDIA’s new platform performs. (more…)

Asus Eee PC 1000HE Netbook Impressions

It seems like only yesterday that we talked about the Asus Eee PC 1000HE netbook being available for pre-order, and it seems like Asus has wasted little time in getting review units out to the better known sites of the world, which this one is obviously not part of. (more…)

Eee PC 1000HE With Intel Atom N280 Available Soon

Asus is more or less the company responsible for the whole netbook thing taking off, what with the Asus Eee Pc (and its seventy-three varieties), so what would another week (give or take) be without a new Asus Eee PC netbook to talk about? Well, it’d be a shame, that’s what. Anyhow, the Asus Eee PC 1000HE netbook is now available for pre-order. Sure, I don’t usually go into this sort of thing (though you can expect it when the Samsung NC20 netbook becomes available for pre-order in the States), but I figured it was worthwhile for a few reasons.
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