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Freescale Targets $200 Netbooks With New Chips

You probably haven't heard of Freescale--the company doesn't grab many headlines in the CPU world dominated by Intel. But the U.S. company recently announced big plans for netbooks: It wants to put its CPUs inside more of them, and ...READ»

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AMD   |  Comment

AMD's Atom-Rival Neo CPU Isn't Really For Netbooks

So AMD's nose-to-nose battle with Intel in every corner of the CPU marketspace really isn't going to happen for netbook CPUs. News about AMD's low-power Neo CPU has arrived and it's not a direct rival to Intel's suite of Atom ...READ»

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Lenovo's S12 Netbook Gets Big-Screen, Big Graphics Power from Nvidia

Lenovo's pulled the wraps off its S12, which is far more than a ho-hum addition to its long list of netbook PCs. It's got a 12-inch screen, and is the first netbook to use Nvidia's powerful Ion platform. The S12 is further ...READ»

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Why the Apple Tablet Rumors Still Won't Go Away

Apple's mythical tablet computer is the stuff of gadget blogger wet dreams. We've covered the rumored device many times, and Chris Dannen has even explored why they keep resurfacing. But many more rumors keep popping up. Why, why, ...READ»

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Can Intel's New Atom Chips Liven Up Netbooks?

We may have proclaimed the netbook a phenomenon that was over and done, but Intel has just revealed its next-gen Pine Trail chips, and it looks like they might inject some new interest into the mini portable computers. With ...READ»

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Rumor: Archos Android-Powered Tablet Smartphone Due June

It's been widely rumored that Archos, maker of a line of high-end personal media players, will reveal an Android-powered smartphone at a June 11 press event. And unlike the numerous Android phones already out there and due soon, ...READ»

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Lenovo, The Company To Look Out For

Taken from Technology Should Be Simple You may have never heard of Lenovo, but you have seen their laptops. They are the company behind the IBM laptop line. If you didn't know, IBM licenses their name to Lenovo to produce ...READ»

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Netbook Boom Causes Microsoft's Revenues to Stutter

Microsoft posted a quarterly drop in sales and profits yesterday, which is interesting news all by itself, considering the mammoth scale of Microsoft's PC dominance. But hidden in the data is the suggestion that one of the causes of ...READ»

ARM-Powered Apple Netbook is On the Way
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Speculation Increases That ARM-Powered Apple Netbook is On the Way

While he said Apple [AAPL] had some "interesting ideas" about netbooks, Steve Jobs squashed thinking that his company would be entering the netbook market when he spoke at Apple's last quarterly earnings call, saying there are "not a ...READ»

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Does Android on an HP Netbook Signal Trouble For Microsoft?

Google's Android may soon move beyond the limiting confines of the G1 smartphone and onto a much roomier machine: the netbook. Hewlett Packard is experimenting with the OS in an attempt to gauge how useful it might be on those tiny ...READ»

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Apple MacBook Release Official for October 14th

Not much to add to the already-reported rumors of new Apple [AAPL] MacBooks on their way in 5 days, but Apple has finally acknowledged the event by sending out an invitation to special media folks. The event will start at 10AM PST ...READ»

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Oracle Considering a Sun Netbook, No Joke

Oracle surprised many people by buying Sun Microsystems a few months ago. But that's nothing compared to the statement made by its CEO yesterday: Is Oracle-Sun going to sell a netbook? Larry Ellison was speaking at the JavaOne ...READ»

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Apple MacBook Rumors Intensify

As we reported last week on this blog, a number of industry rumors point to October 14th as a drop date for the new MacBooks and MacBook Pros from Apple [AAPL]. Rumors out of Nvidia [NVDA] seemed to confirm that date, as a graphics ...READ»

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NETBOOKS   |  1 comment

What's Next for Netbooks? Acer and Asus Reveal Plans

It's always refreshing when a lateral-thinking-inspired product revolutionizes a market. And that's partly what makes the netbook computer so interesting. Netbooks are growing up fast, and both market-leader Acer and its original ...READ»

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Has NVIDIA Leaked New MacBook Details?

Rumors have been afire that Apple [AAPL] is coming shortly with new MacBooks and MacBook Pros, the latter of which feel as if they haven't been updated in centuries. Now there's word that a MacBook event is planned for October 14, ...READ»

Nokia Booklet 3G Hands On: Nice Netbook, But How Much?
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Nokia Booklet 3G Hands On: Nice Netbook, but How Much?

The Nokia Booklet 3G has touched down on US soil. The cell phone manufacturer's first laptop is made of sturdy stuff and is mobile broadband/SIM-card friendly. I'd buy one if the price is right. But chances are it's not. I've got to ...READ»

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Sony Reverses Course, Releases Vaio Netbook

Sony said it wouldn't enter the true netbook market as it was just "a race to the bottom" in terms of PC specs. Well, someone in the company's decided it's also a market worth lots of money, as there's now a Vaio netbook.It's called ...READ»

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Radio Shack's $99 Netbook Beats OLPC To The Bottom

Nick Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child XO PC scheme never made it below the magic $100 barrier that it was originally touted at and now it looks like the march of technology, and the netbook phenomenon has caught up to it in the US. ...READ»

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Consumers Confused About Netbooks, But Disney Isn't

A recent survey says that consumers have no idea about the weaknesses of netbooks versus notebooks, and have no idea how best to exploit the mini PCs. Disney meanwhile does understand, and has come up with a great netbook audience: ...READ»

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Sony's Netbook Vaio Pocket Surfaces Online

News and leaks online have been revealed in small spurts about a new netbook from Sony, but now an "official" leak on a Sony website has confirmed that the machine is reality. It's dubbed the Vaio Pocket, since it's supposedly sized ...READ»

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IBM Introduces Linux-based Netbook Software Aimed at Developing World

The netbook sector is one of the hottest spaces in tech, so it’s no surprise that IBM has thrown its hat into the ring with its new Smart Work package. What is surprising is that the computer giant is angling for market share in ...READ»

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Apple Tablet Delayed, but With OLED Screen and Condé Nast Mags

Whee, the Apple Tablet merry-go-round spins and spins: Today adds a clutch of rumors that, if you grapple them all together, are another quietly confident tick in the "it's definitely real" box. But one suggestion is that the beast is ...READ»

freescale smartbook

Meet the Smartbook: For Everything Your Smartphone and Netbook Can't Do

This, ladies and gentlemen, is the future of mobile computing: The Smartbook. In the same way that a netbook filled a previously unknown need by being something between a laptop and a smartphone, a Smartbook device is halfway ...READ»

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Intel Buys Wind River, Wants More Intel Inside Your Mobile Devices

Intel, obviously not hurting too much from a recent $1.5 billion anti-trust fine, has just spent $884 million purchasing Wind River, which makes embedded systems software. Why would it do that? Because Intel wants it's "Intel ...READ»

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Turn-By Turn GPS on Netbooks: Dumbest Idea Ever

Dell recently announced it'll make a GPS add-on for its Mini 10 netbook. While your mileage may vary on the value of this idea, I'm making my mark here: This is one of the dumbest gadget ideas ever. I can see the inherent value ...READ»