On the surface Acer’s 10.1-inch Aspire One 521 and 11.6-inch Aspire One 721 appear to be fairly run-of-the-mill netbooks — or ultraportables for those that are morally opposed to calling a laptop with a 11.6-inch display a netbook. They’re rather small machines, measure just about an inch thick, and ring up at under $430. But [...]
When we first heard Lenovo had an IdeaPad S12 on its way, we were expecting the long-anticipated Nvidia Ion-packing version, which will include graphics power decent enough to accomplish HD video and even some demanding gaming. Instead, we got a configuration that includes an Intel Atom N270 processor and GMA 950 graphics–essentially the same configuration [...]
The world of cheap, ubiquitous, and nearly identical Netbooks has been a stable and predictable landscape for a while now, and hasn’t gotten any less predictable with the launch of Intel’s next generation of Atom processors. Whereas Netbooks used to run Windows XP, have N270 processors, and 1GB RAM/160GB hard drive as standards, now Netbooks [...]
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 [...]
At first blush, the Viliv N5 would seem the perfect device for those who feel that smart phones like the Droid X and tablets like the iPad don’t offer the full PC experience of running a desktop OS with all your favorite applications, but for whom netbooks are too cumbersome to tote around. This 5-inch, [...]
The MSI Wind U135 is a 10 inch netbook with an Intel Atom N450 Pine Trail processor and a chiclet-style keyboard. That sentence could describe virtually every netbook released in the first half of 2010, but the Wind U135 stands out from the crowd just a tiny bit due to decent build quality and an [...]
