Ever since the introduction of iPad, it had been surmised that tablets would eventually annihilate the fledgling netbook segment and this has now happened. In the second quarter of 2010, tablets shipments outnumbered netbooks. According to ABI Research, a market research and intelligence firm, tablet shipments increased 112.5 percent, while netbook shipment decreased during the [...]

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While HP is currently battling with a number of problems, the company has managed to retain its position as the top dog in PC segment. However, Dell is not so lucky and lost its second spot to Lenovo, the giant from Asia. Lenovo is now eyeing to pip HP from its position and the company [...]

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The long awaited (and expected) announcement of the arrival of the cloud-based Google Chrome OS for netbooks has been officially announced by Google. The netbooks which will have the OS pre-installed will be coming to shelves sometime next year, meaning that the anticipated Christmas release will not be happening. A slightly unusual move by Google, [...]

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If you’re looking to get a laptop for under £300 this Christmas – we recommend that you consider a netbook – a netbook is Laptop which doesn’t have a CD drive and tends to be a lot smaller and more importanly a lot cheaper than your average laptop  - often up to a third cheaper [...]

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Microsoft has spoken out about netbooks, saying what analysts, and most people with a bit of tech sense have been saying for a long time since the release of tablets, that tablets are ‘cannibalizing’ netbooks. Microsoft’s General Manager for Windows product management, Gavriella Schuster, while speak to SeatllePI said that netbooks are “definitely getting cannibalized” [...]

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Ok, so this week you will have probably been a little busy with shopping and Christmas to catch up on the latest gadget news. Well, the Gaj-it team have put together a weekly roundup of the web’s best tech news and reviews from some of our favourite sites. From cool car gadget accessories to useless [...]

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When we decide to ignore the global recession by buying a brand new laptop, we can compare memory, screen size and battery life, but we can’t usually compare lifetime reliability. Until now. Thanks to a recent survey comparing three year malfunction rates by manufacturers, smaller laptop companies like Asus, Toshiba and Sony lead the way [...]

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