Laptop Mag gets its hands on an Eee 1000HE, and are they so happy with it. In fact, they’ve given it 4/5 stars! What a difference a better keyboard makes. On paper the ASUS Eee PC 1000HE ($399) is nearly identical to its predecessor, the 1000H. It has the same attractive, high-gloss chassis, the same […]
Archives for February 2009
Intel Atom N280 CPU now shipping
The new Intel Atom N280 processor with the GN40 chipset is now available. That means we’ll be seeing the new processor on newer netbooks in the future. According to Liliputing: The new CPU has a top clock speed of 1.66GHz, which makes it a tiny bit faster than the Intel Atom N270 CPU which tops […]
Crippled Windows-7 for Netbooks
This is bad. Liliputing replorts that Windows 7 for netbooks won’t be as functional as we hoped it would be: Windows 7 Starter edition kind of sucks. Sure, you get the new Windows 7 taskbar and Home Group features. But you can only run up to 3 applications at a time. Sure, it’s tough to […]
OS X runs on netbooks as well as 4 year old iBook g4
So netbooks are as good as 4-year old iBook G4s, eh? Who would’ve thought? Basically, the test involved pitting an iBook G4 and a MacBook Air against an Advent 4211, which is a rebranded MSi Wind U100. In several benchmarking tests, the Advent 4211 outperformed the iBook G4, although it didn’t come close to touching […]