From Techmonkey: ASUS Taiwan is rolling out an SSD upgrade program for it’s Eee PC 901 lineup with the SSD drives. Taiwanese owners of an Eee PC 901 SSD model can pay $1500 TWD ($43) and have their SSD drive upgraded to the next highest capacity. Apparently it seems to work like this: 4GB -> […]
Archives for February 2009
Asus to drop 8.9-inch Eee PC line
Asus is planning to drop their 8.9-inch Eee PC line in favor of the bigger 10-inch Eees. This is a good move, because even if 8.9 inchers may be cheaper, in the long run 10-inch netbooks have been proven to bebetter. According to the company, they expect that their 10-inch systems will compose upwards of […]
ARM launches Sparrow multi-core CPU for netbooks
ARM has launched its new Sparrow multicore chips aimed at netbooks. Sparrow is a small, inexpensive chip which shares its instruction set with ARM’s top-of-the-line Cortex A8 product, the chip used by the Palm Pre. While one Sparrow chip has about the power of an existing ARM11 (the chip in Apple’s iPhone and other leading […]