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30 million netbooks to ship in 2011 – pretty good ay?

30 million netbooks to ship in 2011 – pretty good ay?

You thought netbooks will give up and tablets will take over the ultra portable niche? Well, think again, as engadget says that about 30 million of them will be shipped this year, putting a stop to the ongoing ...
Fujitsu introduces Lifebook PH50

Fujitsu introduces Lifebook PH50

The Japanese company announced a new netbook, namely the PH50, which will be powered by a AMD Fusion APU (Accelerated Processing Unit). Netbookitalia.it says that the 11.6 netbook will run on a dual core AMD E ...
New Compaq netbook to boost Verizon 4G

New Compaq netbook to boost Verizon 4G

Service provider Verizon announced a few days ago at CES that they’ll offer their 4G LTE connectivity together with two netbook models. One of them is the tiresomely named Compaq Mini CQ10-688NR and about...
Razer teases Switchblade, a dual screen gaming mini laptop

Razer teases Switchblade, a dual screen gaming mini laptop

Razer has been quietly working on a great concept for a gaming mini laptop (or netbook?). The device is still in development, but it was teased for a few moments at CES and liliputing.com brought a little video...
Archos prepares Chrome OS netbook?

Archos prepares Chrome OS netbook?

French company Archos is currently trying to gain trademark rights for the name “Gbook”, which might imply that the company is planning a Chrome OS netbook, according to pocketnow.com. The technical...
Google’s Chromebook gets first preview

Google’s Chromebook gets first preview

Only yesterday we were talking about the Amazon page that Google set up for its upcoming Chrome OS running, Intel Atom powered 12.1 laptop and the people over at engadget.com got their hands on the CR-48 protot...
Microsoft gears up tablets for CES

Microsoft gears up tablets for CES

Well, somebody has to step up ad try to fend off Apple from dominating the tablet market, no? We’re of course kidding, but the busybodies at Microsoft don’t. Liliputing.com reports that the company ...
Jolibook netbook may be available later this month

Jolibook netbook may be available later this month

Seems like everybody is releasing a netbook these days and now is the turn of free netbook OS manufacturer Jolicloud to hit the streets with their first netbook before December. According to engadget.com, there...
Nvidia Tegra 3 platform to arrive in Q3 2011?

Nvidia Tegra 3 platform to arrive in Q3 2011?

There were some rumors of a future Nvidia Tegra 3 platform mentioned in my post on the Notion Ink Adam tablet, when speaking about a future Adam 2 for late 2011. But it now seems these rumors seem to gather. Th...
Netbooks for South Africa: LG X140 World Cup edition and Samsung N150 Adidas

Netbooks for South Africa: LG X140 World Cup edition and Samsung N150 Adidas

Only a couple of days left before June 11 when the Word Cup 2010 officially kicks off in South Africa and we already have a couple of limited edition netbooks designed for this event. They don’t actually ...