Powered by AMD Athlon MV-40 processor, it packs in a nice chiclet style keyboard and two ways to control the mouse pointer – one via touchpad and another through touchpointer. It has a 11.6-inch display that sports a resolution of 1366×768. You will be able to squeeze out around 5-6 hours of battery life. Read full Lenovo X100e review

Gadgetmix.com has done an informative review of the Acer Aspire One D150. Here is what they have to say:

The new Aspire One D150 offers a elegant and stylish design along with enough power to satisfy for your daily as-well-as mobile computing needs.  And with the 6 hours-plus battery life and extremely affordable price ($350-$400 for 6-cell battery), it is a great bang for a buck. We recommend it.

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Pros:

• Great battery life
• Cheap for what you get
• Looks nice
• Brushed metallic palm rest
• Zippy performance
• eRecovery software is handy
• Full sized shift key and dedicated page-up/down buttons
• RAM and HDD upgradable
• Better bundled case (compared to older Aspire One)

Cons:

• Keyboard could have been bigger.

Read the full review here

Folks at gadgetmix.com have done a massive review of the EEE 1002HA. Here is what they have to say,

The EEE 1002HA is a great machine which takes the all the positives of the EEE S101 and EEE 1000H. The ASUS took the challenge to produce a regular HDD-based EEE with the slim looks of S101. Are we happy with the final outcome? Yes! The 1002HA is great in performance and brings seriously professional looks. On the battery life front, it may not break and records, but with careful usage, you should easily get 3.5 hours+ of battery life.

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Pros:

• Shares the same sexy looks of the EEE S101
• HDD is way roomy as compared to small SSD of S101
• RAM and HDD easily upgradable
• Feels expensive
• Smaller than the 1000H
• Zippy performance with the XP
• 10GB EEE storage

Cons:

• Battery life is not great
• No extended battery options
• Small right shift key

READ the full review here

With Corel InstantON technology, VAIO P series Lifestyle PC users can surf the web, check email, chat online and play back photos, videos and music in seconds after turning on their notebook, saving the time of booting up their Windows operating system.

“We are pleased to work with Sony to provide a superior instant-on solution for their VAIO P series Lifestyle PC,” said Jeff Hastings, President and General Manager, Digital Media at Corel. “Users will find an all-new, custom-designed interface that provides a complete, efficient and secure way to quickly access online content at home or on the go.”

“As the world’s lightest 8 inch notebook at 1.4 pounds, the VAIO P series Lifestyle PC deserves a superior instant-on solution to meet the needs of today’s mobile computer user,” said Bob Ishida, Senior Vice President, Corporate Executive, President of VAIO Business Group, Sony Corporation. “By adopting Corel InstantON technology, users will enjoy a stress-free and exciting user experience through an easy-to-use interface that accesses the internet faster than ever before.”

Availability

The Sony VAIO P series Lifestyle PC with Corel InstantON technology is now available in Japan, and will ship worldwide in February 2009.

Lenovo’s IdeaPad S10 netbook – an affordable secondary PC for the home or for the first-time PC user – is ideal for connecting to the Internet, messaging with friends, completing homework or even making Skype calls. Lenovo is updating the popular IdeaPad S10 netbook with new multimedia and networking tools for social networking enthusiasts ranging from newbie’s to the most social of socialites.

While many early adopters are familiar with the world of social networking, some mainstream consumers are only taking the first steps. Through a new Lenovo tool called LenovoSocial, that comes preloaded on the netbook, users can easily connect to a resource portal that will help them navigate the vast options for participating in social networking.

Other new features on the IdeaPad S10 netbook include Lenovo Quick Start. With this functionality, users will have the ability to access a number of frequently used applications including a web browser, music player, photo viewer, instant messaging tools and Skype. New to the netbook is Lenovo’s VeriFace™ facial recognition technology, a convenient tool for easy log-in. Similar to the IdeaPad Y Series laptops, the netbook features multi-touch functionality on the trackpad and Lenovo’s OneKey™ Rescue System.

The new IdeaPad S10 netbook’s 10.2-inch LED backlight display, 0.9 inch thick frame and 2.4 pound weight make it an ideal companion to tote in a backpack or shoulder bag. Color choices include black, white, red, blue, or pink.

Google android is running all fine thanks to the geeks at venturebeats. They have been able to get the graphics and the Wireless running on the big ASUS EEE 1000H netbook.

They are also pretty optimistic about such industry:

“Imagine the billion dollar market at stake here if Google can make good on this vision. Netbooks are basically small-scale PCs. For Silicon Valley myriad of software companies, it means a well-backed, open operating system that is open and ripe for exploitation for building upon. Now think of Chrome, Google’s web browser, and the richness it allows developers to build into the browser’s relationship with the desktop — all of this could usher in a new wave of more sophisticated web applications, cheaper and more dynamic to use. Ramifications abound: What does it mean for the stock price of Microsoft? Microsoft currently owns the vast majority of the desktop operating system market share? In recent weeks, Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer repeatedly dismissed Android as competition to Windows Mobile.”

via gadgetmix via venturebeat

MSI today announces U115 Hybrid. The very first notebook computer in the world that is capable of operating both SSD and HDD hard drives simultaneously, combining all the features of SSD and HDD in the U115 Hybrid for your enjoyment.

With MSI Exclusive Hybrid Storage Technology, in the “ECO on” mode, the battery life of U115 Hybrid is super long *. This amazing battery life can escalate the mobility and the productiveness of the U115 Hybrid, which can also make your daily lives much more convenient.

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The chart of boing-boing is extremely helpful in knowing what is working and what is not. The MSI wind U100 stood upon the top. No doubt, many people are buying it for that reason only. The Apple is still not out with an OS X netbook and this gives the netbook owners another reason to install the OS X on their netbooks making the netbooks the smallest Mac OS X running computers

If you’ve been looking to play with OS X on a netbook, then this may be a good starting point.

This news is for those who wants to do investment in the Dell Inspiron Mini 9, because this time some of these netbooks are coming with 24WHR battery pack. I think we should hold ourself till the DELL makes some announcement regarding this as the users were promised a 4-cell 32WHR battery life.

According to the various press releases, it still points out that it should have come with 4 cell 32WHR battery. Lets hope to hear something from DELL

MSI has released a BIOS update that addresses a few minor issues including a fix affecting the S4 sleep mode.

Download here (via liliputing)

It is the era of netbooks right now. Everybody wants to have a computer that is portable and can be carry anywhere, which is now possible with your netbook. Being able to connect online with wireless or 3G is a must-have featuer. Unfortunately many netbooks do not come with the 3G option. So,  that’s means that by current standards, your netbook is not complete.

I know all netbooks are not coming up with this option, but some netbooks are being released with the 3G option. The HP Mini 1000 with 3G will cost you $199 more over the current price tag of the netbook, which is $399.

HP mini 1000 homepage

Sammynetbook.com has published a review of the newly released SAMSUNG NC10. Here is the summary of his review:

• Connectivity is fantastic operating at full wireless speeds
• Camera is good quality
• Good weight,
• Powerful yet cool and quiet
• The LEDs look cool, and that’s what really counts
• Keyboard is great, there are a couple of keys that feel out of place but you’ll get used to it quick enough
• Scrolling up and down isnt ideal with the trackpad, get learning all the keyboard shortcuts! Or plug in a mouse!
• Boots relatively quick

In general I find the Samsung NC10 very snappy and responsive, strangely even more so than my Quad Core desktop machine when it comes to light tasks. For general browsing I do recommend installing Chrome and ditching IE. Chrome proves to be much quicker in every respect, from simply loading up standard pages and as expected in online applications too.

It takes 27 seconds to boot to the windows front user selection screen and from there another 30 seconds to get Chrome started. I’ll be interested to see how that changes as I begin to load more software onto the machine. But for now I’m impressed by that start up time, it’s quicker than my desktop!

The Samsung NC10 to date has handled everything that I’ve thrown at it with very reasonable performance. I am fast getting the impression that this little netbook will be able to run everything that I need on the move and do it a solid fashion. However I am only part way through installing applications at this stage and there is plenty more to load on and only time will tell if my initial comments hold out! And all this without performing a 2gb NC10 Ram upgrade yet!

Read the full review here

Jkk at jkkmobile has just a unboxing video of the amazming HP Mini 1000. He says that he appreciates the slim design of the notebook

If you are in Poland, you can get the Samsung NC10 3G from iPlus

They will be selling it with a 6-cell battery, Windows XP (home) and a 160GB HDD.