Tag Archives: Netbook

Back to school means much more than PCs

August 28, 2009 – 8:48 am


Here’s an informative segment on back-to-school computing products from The Today Show.  This year’s options are about so much more than just a PC.

Wii educational ‘games [....]

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The painful path to SSD adoption in netbooks

July 13, 2009 – 8:42 am

Birth is painful. 

This universal truth is proving to be true for the nascent SSD netbook market.

Flash manufacturers have been struggling with losses due to depressed prices for a while now.

Prices are up!  Good [....]

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Disney netbooks? Of course!

June 18, 2009 – 1:50 pm

Disney and ASUS are introducing a Disney-branded netbook for the 6-12 year old demographic.  It makes perfect sense:

Netbooks are (or can be) priced as a generous but [....]

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Are netbooks in the trough of disillusionment?

May 20, 2009 – 8:40 am

Source: wikipedia.org

There have been cracks forming in the veneer of the netbook story, such as those spotted by CRNtech:

Feature creep
Wide variation in performance, depending on the OS
Disappointing battery [....]

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Notebook score: disk drive 2, optical drive 0

February 25, 2009 – 6:59 am

Source: MCE

Just as we’re hearing more and more about Netbooks comes this from Ars Technica: a way to swap your MacBook’s optical drive for a second hard drive . 

Two [....]

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