After remaining tight lipped recently, Apple will need get their skates on to tell us more about their rumoured iSlate/Tablet device as Lenovo have just released their IdeaPad S10-3t at
As we approach the end of 2009 let us whisk back quickly in history to the end of 2007. Just two years ago Asus launched the Eee PC 700 and 701 and started the netbook revolution. Previously the PC industry had been moving ahead with only one aim, bigger and bigger, faster and faster. Then Asus realised that you don’t need a dual core processor with 4GB of memory to read your email. And so they launched the small 7 inch screen Eee PC range and started a revolution. But now the same “bigger and faster” disease has hit the netbook and new devices like the fabled Apple Tablet could take their place.
If you would like to use a netbook while on the go then Orange has a new netbook deal which might entice your. Orange are now offering the Asus 1005HGO with 3G mobile broadband which allows you to get online straight out of the box. The 1005HGO is a Windows 7 laptop which has a 3G modem and sim card built-in and so allows you to use Orange’s 3G network to surf the net, read your email, video chat and keep up to date with your social networks all while you are out and about.
In the days of the netbook, manufacturers have at last got a balance between portability, and functionality about right. Netbooks like the Asus Eee pc, and the Samsung NC 10 have been tempting us with their promise of long battery life, and a fully featured OS and application suite. The balance however is usually offset with the hardware, and to get that portability, you need less of it. Out go the dedicated graphics, and power hungry CPU’s, and of course the topic of today’s review, the CD drive. Of course the quick minded lot at Sandberg have the USB CD Mini Reader that should fill the gap left by the non-existent CD drive on your computer.
Over the last few days the Internet has been full of rumours that, this week, Google will release a Beta version of their Chrome OS. Google’s Chrome OS was announced back in the summer as a re-think of what operating systems should be. Google’s thinking is as follows: today’s operating systems, that run our web browsers, were designed in an era where there was no web. So today we need a new operating system which is designed with the web in mind.
Sometimes it is easy to forget that the netbook revolution started just two short years ago when Asus introduced the Eee PC 701. Their popularity was almost instant with Asus selling over 300,000 units in the first three months. Now in 2009 there are more netbooks than ever in the market and giants like Dell, HP and Sony all have offerings. So with Christmas coming up, here is a run down of the good, the mad and the stylish in the netbook marketplace.
One of the obvious advantages of netbooks are their size. They are very portable and can be used just as much on the move as well as at a desk. But to be used on the move you need a battery and a battery that only lasts an hour or so kinda of kills the idea of a netbook. Many netbooks have great battery life, but MSI have just launched the new MSI Wind U110 ECO with a reported battery life of 15+ hours!
We were at IFA in Berlin for too short a time to even think about taking everything in. Sticking mainly to the Sony end of things, and now the IFA
