At first glance, the 11.6-inch Acer Aspire TimelineX 1830 looks like an ordinary netbook; it’s about an inch thick and weighs around three pounds.
Under the hood, however, there’s a powerful Intel Core i7 processor, 4GB of RAM, and a 500GB hard drive. While the computer looks and feels like a netbook, it definitely performs like a …
As flavors of Linux go, Ubuntu has been pretty popular over the years. The open source operating system can be installed on a wide range of computer hardware, and there’s even a version called Ubuntu Netbook that’s specially made to optimize the relatively tight 1024×600 screen resolution found on many of today’s netbooks.
The most …
This thing is crazy, and maybe in a good way. At Intel’s developers conference today, Dell showed off what appeared to be a netbook at first glance. Then the guy holding it apparently swiveled the 10-inch touchscreen around 180 degrees inside its own frame, closed the computer as one would do with a standard notebook, and …
Hewlett-Packard has announced newly updated 17-, 14-, and 13.3-inch consumer notebooks and revamped its 10.1-inch Mini 210 netbook.
The HP Envy 17 3D is a 17.3 inch, 3D-capable laptop with an Intel Core i7 processor, Beats Audio, ATI graphics, Blu-ray support, and up to 2 TB of storage. Pricing hasn’t been set yet, but the
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Intel’s dual-core Atom N550 processor has made its way into netbooks and some of those netbooks are available for purchase now.
Acer has a 10.1-inch Aspire One netbook selling through HSN.com already for just under $400. The netbook sports the 1.5GHz dual-core processor and 1GB of new-ish DDR3 memory, which ought to add a little more …
We’re going to have to connect some dots on this one, but let’s explore how Apple might go about selling an 11.6-inch version of its ultraportbale MacBook Air notebook.
For starters, an analyst named Keith Bachman reportedly said in a recent research report that Apple will be announcing two new MacBook Air models at its press …
Back in October of last year, Acer went down a seldom travelled path by serving up a 10-inch netbook (shown above) running both Windows XP and Android. It received lukewarm reviews early on, with most of the criticism stemming from the lack of access to the Android Market and a dedicated Gmail app. It ran Flash, though, and seemed to …
Upgrading the RAM in your laptop is one of the easiest, quickest, and cheapest ways to improve your computer’s performance. The actual process is super simple, though some computer shops charge upwards of $50 for what amounts to less than five minutes worth of work.
Check out the above video to see how it’s done.
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Asus has pulled some noteworthy tricks in the interest of pushing out netbooks that pack a little more power than competing machines—namely, stuffing desktop-specific Atom CPUs into netbook form factors. It did so with the 1201N, which used a dual-core Atom 330 CPU and is poised to do it again with the 1215N, which will feature a …
– AMD Athlon II Neo CPU at 1.7GHz
– Windows 7 Home Premium
– 2GB of DDR3 RAM
– 250GB hard drive
– Up to 5.5 hours of battery life
– ATI Radeon HD 4225 GPU with up to 384MB of shared system memory
– 11.6-inch 1366×768 LED-backlit display
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Expected to be available in July with a starting price of $399, Samsung’s 10-inch N230 netbook weighs in at just 2.2 pounds and is capable of 7 hours of battery life with the standard battery. Opt for the bigger, long-life battery and the company is claiming that the N230 “can be extended up to an amazing 13.8 hours” before needing to be …
Acer’s got four new netbook models, two of which are now using AMD processors instead of Intel’s Atom chips. The 11.6-inch Aspire One 721 and the 10.1-inch Aspire One 521 both leverage AMD’s Athlon II Neo K125 CPU and ATI Radeon HD 4225 graphics with 384MB of dedicated memory.
The AO721 features 2GB of RAM, an 11.6-inch …
