Acer managed to strike gold in the middle of a global economic crisis thanks to their affordable Acer Aspire One netbooks. These low-cost, ultraportable laptops have quickly become popular travel companions for people who don’t want to haul a heavy notebook to Starbucks. The latest 10-inch Acer Aspire One, the D250 series, offers a great [...]
After much buzz, the first major update to Nvidia’s Ion graphics chipset is finally here. Nvidia calls it, prosaically, “Next-Generation Ion” (we’ll term it “Ion 2″ for short), and we got to test-drive it inside an Asus Eee PC 1201pn, a 12.1-inch netbook built around an Intel Atom N450 (Pine Trail) CPU. The Ion 2 [...]
Ever since the MacBook Air was pulled out of a manila envelope, other laptop manufacturers have attempted to dethrone it as the world’s thinnest laptop. Dell’s first effort, the Dell Adamo, certainly invited comparisons to the MacBook Air, with its aluminum “Unibody” enclosure, thin profile, and non-removable battery. Unfortunately, its $2,000 price tag was deemed [...]
When we associate media playback and computers, netbooks don’t come to mind as the ideal merging of the two. On many netbooks, 720p videos play like slide shows, and you can forget about 1,080p. Even Flash-based media can stutter or look jerky, which is pretty serious, since Flash is one of the Web’s most pervasive [...]
The Viliv S10 Blade is the largest and latest model in Viliv’s growing arsenal. It’s essentially an S7 with a larger screen, with the same convertible touchscreen design and 3G modem. However the S10 adds a 7-point multitouch to the mix along with Windows 7. These two main additions make for a much more pleasing [...]
Samsung has announced the little brother to the Galaxy (codenamed the i5700 Galaxy Lite) as the Spica. The smartphone will be running OS Android OS 1.5, Chrome Lite Browser, and support services Google Apps and Android Market. Touch-screen model of 3-inch TFT with WQVGA resolution and interface Touchwiz. 1500 mAh lithium-ion battery Galaxy Spica proudly [...]
