The 11.6” range of netbooks is a personal favourite, offering a decent sized screen with higher resolutions than your typical 10.1” display or more cost effective than the ones that it equals. Although the new Acer Aspire 1430 Notebook doesn’t technically qualify as a netbook, it does provide a fantastic solution for either a netbook...
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Notion Ink have made a few contributions to the tablet industry with their Nvidia Tegra 2 powered Adam tablet although we’re still waiting for a release, but in our wait, we’ve had a few sneak peeks of what we can expect to see what it does launch. One thing that is missed from tablet devices is...
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Touchpads are a common complaint about laptops and netbooks alike, seeing as without an additional USB mouse the touchpad is your main input tool, it’s pretty important that manufacturers get this right; but it’s not down to the manufacturers of your laptop, but the manufacturer of your touchpad, in most cases Synaptics. Synaptics are in the...
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There’s fast Flash drive USB memory sticks and then there’s the LaCie SSD-based USB 3.0 FastKey. LaCie have been making portable hard drives and putting interesting spins on portable re-writable media for some time now, and here they are once again with an SSD-based USB 3.0 ‘FastKey’ which offers huge capacities of storage at high speeds...
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The lacking feature of the Android Market on tablet devices is one that has troubled many, not being able to get apps easily straight to your Android device would seem like a fatal flaw but the Advent Vega is proving otherwise. Powered by the Nvidia Tegra 2 chipset, this surprisingly powerful tablet device from Advent is...
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With HP’s recent acquisition of Palm, we haven’t heard too much from the once legendary smartphone company, and now with in house confusion of OS choices and hardware decisions, Palm is a voice that’s rarely heard. News of a 5-inch tablet from Palm comes as good news, an extra competitor for the 5-inch tablet market, a...
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There’s no doubt about it that Apple does make some attractive looking hardware but apple love to limit you every step of the way. So what if you could have Windows 7 running on a tablet that looked exactly like an iPad? Netbooknews have just discovered a tablet in a Hong Kong computer market that uses...
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We’re still waiting for the real Android tablets to come along, many manufacturers are waiting for Android 3.0 before they get into the game but for now we’ll make do with what we have and it turns out that a few of the entries available are rather impressive. Marvell had some devices to show off at...
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Jolicloud’s netbook is now at a stage of completion, we’re now waiting for all that paper work etc before we get to see it going for sale but it would seem that Jolicloud have given a sample model to TechCrunch for an early review. The hardware is something we’ve seen before in the System76 starling, baring...
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It’s always welcome news when something good comes from a processor manufacturer other than Intel, given their obvious supreme status over all others; the need for competition is great. Qualcomm, the creators of the Snapdragon CPU series have recently announced a few details of their next generation of processors which if they are to be anything...
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