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When It Grows Up, The IiView A2 Wants To Be A MacBook Air
1:30PM Rosa Golijan | If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery than Apple is a-blushing and a-giggling right now. iView’s iiView A2 is hitting Singapore next week and, aside from running Windows 7 RC 1 of all things, it seems a bit familiar. More »
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4:00AM John Herrman | BoingBoing Gadgets’ netbook compatibility chart is a great resource for putting Mac OS on netbooks. But before taking the Hackintosh plunge, here are the major contenders’ strengths, pitfalls and quirks to consider, plus guides for when you (carefully) jump in. More »
The State Of Hackintosh: Which Netbooks To Hack
4:00AM John Herrman | BoingBoing Gadgets’ netbook compatibility chart is a great resource for putting Mac OS on netbooks. But before taking the Hackintosh plunge, here are the major contenders’ strengths, pitfalls and quirks to consider, plus guides for when you (carefully) jump in. More »
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Mac OS X Netbook Compatibility Chart Updated
12:00AM Dan Nosowitz | Boing Boing Gadgets’ fantastic ease-of-netbook-Hackintoshing chart just got updated with three new models (all pretty promising) and a smattering of changes throughout. If you’re thinking about a Hackintoshed netbook, check it, and our guide, out. [Boing Boing Gadgets] More »
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Nvidia’s Tegra-Based Netbook Christened “Firefly”
2:00PM Dan Nosowitz | Nvidia seems to be shopping around a teeny netbook running the company’s Tegra ARM chipset and, of all things, Windows CE. It looks very barebones, since Tegra is really meant for smartphones, and nobody seems too thrilled with it. More »
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Sony Vaio W: It’s A Very Pretty $500 Netbook, Of Course
4:14PM Matt Buchanan | I love the idea of a Vaio netbook, but the only thing that actually gets me going about the first of inevitably many Sony Vaio W netbooks is the 1366×768 10.1-inch screen (which ain’t even unique). It’s beautiful, though. More »
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Sony’s Got An Honest-to-Goodness Vaio Netbook
2:35PM Matt Buchanan | Well, you wouldn’t take a real notebook into a kitchen would you? This Vaio W must obviously be a netbook. [Sony via Engadget Japan] More »
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Intel And Nokia Partner To Make Future Something-Or-Other
1:55AM Jason Chen | As reported, Intel and Nokia had a big fancy announcement to tell everyone that they’re going to be doing something together in the future—the specifics of which wasn’t important (or defined) enough to mention today. More »
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8:51AM Nick Broughall | I was fortunate enough to have a briefing with the folks from Acer yesterday, who were showing off their new Aspire One Netbook.
It’s a nice little Eee PC competitor, with an 8.9-inch screen and powered by Intel’s Atom processor. There are a raft of ports, including three USBs, VGA output, ethernet, a dedicated SD card slot and 6-in-one card reader, plus microphone and headphone jacks. There’s both 802.11b/g and Bluetooth, with a webcam built in as well.
The Aspire one will come in two configurations – 8GB flash memory running Linpus linux (which Acer have customised for the Aspire One), or 80GB hard drive running Windows XP. At launch, it will be available in white and blue colours, with brown, pink and black models to follow from August.
UPDATE: Acer have just informed us that the Aspire One will come with a 120GB hard drive instead of the previously announced 80GB. There’s no changes to the price – which makes this an even more appealing device.
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Acer Aspire One Priced, Sorta Dated For Oz
8:51AM Nick Broughall | I was fortunate enough to have a briefing with the folks from Acer yesterday, who were showing off their new Aspire One Netbook.
It’s a nice little Eee PC competitor, with an 8.9-inch screen and powered by Intel’s Atom processor. There are a raft of ports, including three USBs, VGA output, ethernet, a dedicated SD card slot and 6-in-one card reader, plus microphone and headphone jacks. There’s both 802.11b/g and Bluetooth, with a webcam built in as well.
The Aspire one will come in two configurations – 8GB flash memory running Linpus linux (which Acer have customised for the Aspire One), or 80GB hard drive running Windows XP. At launch, it will be available in white and blue colours, with brown, pink and black models to follow from August.
UPDATE: Acer have just informed us that the Aspire One will come with a 120GB hard drive instead of the previously announced 80GB. There’s no changes to the price – which makes this an even more appealing device.
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Subnotebook vs. UMPC vs. Netbook: WTF Is the Difference?
7:00AM Matt Buchanan | When Blam broke the news on Dell’s mini Inspiron, there was one thing he was stuck on: How to categorise it. Is it a subnotebook? A UMPC? A netbook? (Knowing the specs might have helped, but probably not much.) Part of the problem is that the category names themselves are very new and pretty vague. Here’s a mini-compendium of the most popular terms for dwarfish laptops being tossed around, where they come from and what they’re trying to say. Help us decide which ones to keep, and which to ditch.
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