Asus is not content with being the market leader in netbooks, the latest news from Asustek is that they’ll release $200 netbooks next year.  Considering their current pricing, this is not impossible.  Some Asus Eee models are now in the $300 to $400 price range and with current technology getting cheaper, and newer technology slowly [...]

About ten years ago, when Compaq was at the height of its company buying spree, Compaq had a product demonstration for its latest line of notebooks.  Called the M-series for mobile computing, the M-series also introduced magnesium alloy casings. Magnesium alloys are more commonly used in mag wheels or magnesium alloy car wheel rims, as [...]

Recently there has been a spate of releases in the netbook market.  Principally, these ultra-mini PCs have  800×600 resolution on a 10-inch monitor (or less) measured diagonally, solid-state drives, built-in webcam, speakers and mic, Bluetooth, WiFi, Ethernet port, VGA out running on a 1.6GHz Intel Atom with 1GB RAM.  Now Samsung is joining the club [...]

In the old days of the PC, there was only one color, beige.  Even the first Compaq portables were in beige.  Then the changes began, but slowly, first there were changes in beige, becoming off-white and in some, refrigerator white.  In most cases, the color was really just cosmetic, with no significant difference between computers [...]

Sony has a knack of running for a fastbreak on it’s own.  And again, Sony attacks the offence with a small notebook with a Blu-Ray drive.  And not content with that, it also uses flash memory drives on a RAID.  This may be a small computer but it it’s peripherals puts it on a class [...]

Sources:  Engadget;  Pocketables.com Another release in the vague UMPC/PDA market, this time a successor to a linux machine released last year.  The same company which brought out the H9 UMPC has released a new model called the Porient H12. This is almost slightly larger than a PDA, and almost a UMPC.  This is a very [...]