OLPC will be coming back to Amazon this November 17th. After the changes that OLPC went, I am not sure it’s a good idea anymore as I am not for money-hungry corporate people who sell-out themselves to Microsoft and its beloved CEO left…
Well, I will leave the choice up to you here but I
Here’s a cool list of hacks for the Acer Aspire One netbooks:
Software Hacks Linpus Advanced Mode Minimise Color Banding in X11 Quieter Fan Speed up SSD Access
Sony has announced their new 11-inch Sony VAIO TT with Blue-ray discs and weight only 2.87 pounds. I do like it but pricing seems to be a little on the high side for this one. I’d like to spend less money on such laptops. But yes, this Sony VAIO TT would qualify as a netbook, barely with 11.1″.
Here’s the press release from Sony:
SONY UNVEILS WORLD’S LIGHTEST BLU-RAY DISC NOTEBOOK
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Here’s another netbook from Mouse Computer. I haven’t heard of Mouse Computer before, I think it’s a Japanese company that sells laptops only in Japan. Anyways, it looks like a carbon-copy of the ASUS Eee PC.
Mouse Computer just informed us of the October release of their new Netbook. The G1000 will feature 10.2-Inch LCD screen with WSVGA resolution (1024×600), an Intel Atom N270 (1.6GHz), 1GB of RAM, 160GB of SATA HDD, multi card reader (SD / Memorystick / MemoryStick Pro / Multimedia Card), Wi-Fi b/g, three USB ports,
For those of you who have bought the Lenovo IdeaPad S10, I am sorry that you bought such a bad laptop but here’s some dissected pics if you want to hack it.
When some people get a new computer, the first thing they do is install their favorite applications, tweak the operating system, or even replace Windows with Linux or OS X. Others? They rip it apart to see what’s on the insides. And that’s what Liliputing reader (and co-designer of our logo) Tommy Yoo di
Toshiba intros 1.8-inch 250GB SATA harddrives which will allow even slimmer laptops. Of course, there’s SSDs in the works but this will be great for people who want netbooks with big storage.
IRVINE, Calif., Sept 24, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Toshiba Storage Device Division (SDD), the industry pioneer in small form factor hard disk drives (HDDs), today announced expansion of its market-leading 1.8-inch lineup with the MKxx29GSG series, which introduces three high-capacity, high-performance Serial ATA HDDs for mobile PC applicatio
The Panasonic Toughbook T8 seems to be an exact identical copy of the ToughBook W8 with a smaller battery.
Regardless, I do love these Toughbooks as they can handle drops and spills like a charm.
Here’s the specs for the T8:
software • Genuine Windows Vista® Business (with XP downgrade option) • Setup, Diagnostics, DMI Viewer, Online Reference Manual, Adobe® Reader, Hard Disk Data Erase Utility, Recovery DVD, Display Image Rotation CPU • Intel® CoreTM 2 Duo Processor SU9300 – 3MB L2 cache – Processor speed 1.20GHz â
Here’s Panasonic Toughbook W8. To us it seems like a slightly watered down version of its bigger 14″ brother Panasonic Toughbook F8.
The 12-inch W8 does still pack a lot of goodies and here’s the specs:
software • Genuine Windows Vista® Business (with XP downgrade option) • Setup, Diagnostics, DMI Viewer, Online Reference Manual, Adobe® Reader, Hard Disk Data Erase Utility, Recovery DVD, WinDVD 8,
I have been very delighted with the Panasonic’s line of Toughbooks in the past but here’s the latest Panasonic Toughbook F8 specs:
software • Genuine Windows Vista® Business (with XP downgrade option) • Setup, Diagnostic, DMI Viewer, Online Reference Manual, Adobe® Reader, Hard Disk Data Erase Utility, Recovery DVD, WinDVD 8, Roxio Creator® LJB CPU • Intel® CoreTM 2 Duo Processor SP9300 – 6MB L2 cache – Processor speed 2.26GHz – 1066MHz FSB STORAGE & MEMORY • 1024MB SDRAM (DDR2 667) standard, expandable to 4096MB1
