netbooks

announced not two weeks ago, and not to be released until around Black Friday, the Barnes & Noble Nook e-reader has already  found itself being attacked as a derivative work, which gives no credit for its feature set.
A story in PC Magazine indicates the challenge to Nook comes from a California based company, that stands [...]

Amazon speaks glowingly about the Kindle, Sony has decided to put its hat in the ring, and put another reader out for public consumption. It seemed that a few others were going to come out with their version of the paperless book, all with one fatal flaw – the reader was locked – DRM.
Now Google [...]

One of my longstanding problems with Microsoft has been that they seem to want to be all things to all people, instead of limiting themselves to possibly 3 things, and really excelling at them (dominate and excel are not synonymous, look it up).
When you have so many balls to juggle, each ball is not in [...]

Apparently not content to make great mobile phones, and wanting to cash in on the burgeoning netbook market, Nokia comes in with a netbook that has, among other traits, exceptional battery life!
from Slashdot
“Today Nokia unveiled its first netbook that runs Windows and packs an Intel Atom processor. The Nokia Booklet 3G is the first [...]

Have you been looking for a netbook that comes without the Windows tax? It seems that it is harder and harder, because, when they want to drive away competition, Microsoft can amazingly make copies of Windows XP so inexpensive that OEMs cannot help but give in. After all, you don’t think it was all your [...]

Beginning in the UK, Hewlett Packard will launch a service to help recover stolen notebook computers. For those computers tracked and presumed irretrievable, there is an erasure feature also available, to make certain that sensitive materials don’t become public knowledge.  Said to work like lo-jack for automobiles, it should lower the cost of insuring these [...]

Once the world problems, like the economy of (name your country here), and the threat of nuclear war from the glorious leader of North Korea are out of the way, it allows time to settle in on the same problems that were there before the disaster.
First, it was the problems of the government of New [...]

By extending the availability of Windows XP until October 2010, it admits that Windows 7 on a netbook doesn’t really cut the mustard, and at the same time that the company has nothing to replace XP for that platform yet. It means that the lowliest version of Windows 7 is not a winner, and still [...]

It is amazing how many people are closet fanboys, not even aware of their status, merely because of their excitement over something new. I refer to the case of Windows 7 versus Windows XP. So many people writing on the internet today would have you believe that Windows XP is like that octogenarian down the [...]

ComputerWorld has an article detailing the second quarter arrival of a new chip, dubbed Neo, to compete in the netbook space dominated by the Intel Atom series.
Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on Tuesday said it would ship new laptop and server processors later this quarter, which should up the ante in its competition with [...]

(There’s that interrobang again – it’s showing up more and more! I am again incredulous and amazed.) A story on Betanews, referring to another in The Wall Street Journal, speaks about the Microsoft assertion that Windows 7 will be possible as an operating system choice on all netbooks.
Well of course it will!
Anyone who knows about [...]

In the days of Windows 3.1, Windows for Workgroups 3.11, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98, Windows 2000, and also Windows XP, there was always a need, albeit a small one, to upgrade hardware to extract the maximum benefits from the operating system upgrade. This led to a natural (perceived) marriage between Microsoft and Intel.
There [...]

I am one of those people, who go against the popularly held idea, that making things smaller is making them better. It is rarely that something that is made smaller works as well, in every sense, as the original larger part replaced. I am reminded of cars, amongst other things. The old line Jay Leno [...]