Laptop Magazines Top Notebooks of CES 2010

Laptop magazine has published their top 10 notebooks of CES list which includes a tablet and netbooks and should give you a good look at the cool new technology coming out in 2010. Here are a few of their pics that are also on my personal CES top notebook list.

HP TouchSmart tm2: This slimmer, cooler [...]

Netbooks obsolete already? So says the BBC

Netbooks were one of the hottest gifts this Christmas season.  Netbooks were a hot topic for 2009.  Netbooks have a long future says everyone in the technology industry.  But now, according to the BBC, experts are saying that netbooks have peaked and we need to look on to the next new idea/technology.
Many contemporary netbook models [...]

Intel announces new Atom processors- small and efficient

Intel has announced the arrival of its new Atom processors, including the “Pine trail” nettop-centered processors.   They are smaller, more integrated, and more efficient.
From Gizmodo article:
The new chips include the N450 for netbooks and the D410 and D510 for nettops (or, as Intel kept calling them, “entry-level desktops”). The big news is that they’ve [...]

New Intel Netbook app store is rushing to open

Apple has the App Store, Android has the Android Market, Windows has the Windows Marketplace…and now it looks like Intel will have the Netbook App Store.
Intel has just released a  new beta SDK for Atom-powered netbooks.  The idea is to have enough applications built so that an Netbook store can be preinstalled on both Windows [...]

Full List of Newegg’s Black Friday Notebook & Netbook Deals

In less than a few minutes. Newegg will be launching its online Black Friday Sale Event. You can grab the full list of products available at Newegg’s Facebook page; I’ll be evaluating the notebooks deals below as a follow up to Josh’s earlier Newegg post. The highlight from the roundup include a selection of netbooks [...]

AT&T Offers 2 Subsidized Netbooks and Cheaper Data Plan for Light Users

AT&T continues the trend of wireless carriers selling subsidized netbooks with the addition of two new Windows 7 netbooks to its lineup. They also are offering a cheaper entry level data package which may appeal to users who don’t need as much data on the go.
The new netbooks start at $199 with a 2 year [...]

Majority Of Users Would Be Dissatisfied With Windows 7 Starter

Even though Microsoft backed off of some of their early Windows 7 Starter edition limitations, such as the number of programs that can run at a certain time, the low cost version of Windows 7 shipping on most netbooks still has some drawbacks that consumers aren’t happy with.

Watch Out For Bad Black Friday Netbook Deals

Every year manufacturers and retailers roll out cheap one notebook and netbook configurations for Black Friday. Many times these low cost computers are alright for basic users who only want to surf the web and browse photos; but some cheap netbooks sold on Black Friday are cheap for a reason. They aren’t any good.

Case in point, the $119 Delstar 7 Inch Wireless Netbook 05 being sold at Kmart on Black Friday this year is a horrible buy.

Win an Epic Netbook Bundle From Nvidia

Nvidia is giving away 12 custom HP Mini 311 netbooks featuring Nvidia Ion, a component of the netbook which provides much improved graphic performance over netbooks which only utilize an on-board graphics processor.
With Ion, the Mini 311 is capable of playing back full 1080p content and pushing said content through its included HDMI port to [...]

5 Tips for Buying a Windows 7 Netbook

Netbooks sales – which have been on a hot streak for a while — are about to get super-heated this fall with the release of Windows 7. With the critics hailing Windows 7 as fast, stable, and easier to use, consumers will be quick to embrace it. This is the first time people can buy a netbook with a new operating system.