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Intel Officially Releases i845 Chipset
As expected, Intel Corp. has unveiled its Intel 845...
CES: Inside Palm’s and AMD’s Comeback Plans
LAS VEGAS -- If Donny and Marie can make...
Review: Acer Aspire One
Acer Aspire Onewww.acer.com$349 as testedPros: great value, good features,...
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Review: Acer Aspire 3935
Woo woo. Or if you prefer, hubba hubba. The Acer Aspire 3935 is a brushed-metal slimline just 1-inch thick and just 4.2 pounds, including the DVD±RW drive missing from ultralight notebooks, such as Apple's MacBook...
Review: Asus Eee PC 1000HE
Users' needs and vendors' hardware configurations are different enough so that you rarely hear someone try to pick a single "best" desktop or notebook PC. But the netbook category is so clearly defined--with so...
Review: HP Mini 2140
HP Mini 2140$449Pros: 802.11a/b/g/draft-n Wi-Fi; Bluetooth; perky performance; first-rate keyboard.Cons: Awkward touchpad; smallish screen; pricier than competitors in its class.
A year ago, HP jumped into the netbook market. Well, stepped in. Well,...
CES: Inside Palm’s and AMD’s Comeback Plans
LAS VEGAS -- If Donny and Marie can make a comeback in Las Vegas, why can't Palm and AMD? Both companies have been kicked around by formidable competitors over the last couple of...
It’s Official: Dell Enters the Netbook Fray
Source: Dell
Dell joins the craze of ultraportable, low-cost notebooks with an 8.9-inch netbook starting at $349 with the popular Linux distribution and $399 with Windows XP. Both solid-state and online storage are standard.
Asus' Eee...
Review: Acer Aspire One
Acer Aspire Onewww.acer.com$349 as testedPros: great value, good features, Wi-Fi, lightweightCons: performance is underwhelming, weak battery life
We have a winner, if not in the sales competition at least in the nomenclature contest: The low-priced,...
Review: Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse 6000 2.0
It's hardly a radical idea, but you wonder why no one thought of it before. Microsoft, like its rival Logitech, makes numerous mice designed for use with notebook PCs--scaled-down devices that don't take much...
Eee, Atom, Aspire, Wind: It’s a Small (Notebook) World at Computex
Whether it's sold by generic white-box resellers or famous names like Dell and Apple, a huge percentage of PC hardware comes from Taiwan. That's why the annual Computex trade show in Taipei always generates...
