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Nvidia chipset to challenge Atom and Nano
News MIDs range between handheld, touchscreen computers and slightly larger PCs exemplified by the Asus Eee PC subnotebook. Nvidia has announced a line-up of low-powered chipsets that will compete in the same arena as Intel's Atom and Via's Nano...
[June 2, 2008, 17:02]
Intel's Atom burns Microsoft, brings back memories
Blog For June will also see the first wave of low-cost Atom-powered sub-notebooks, the £200-£300 wireless-enabled flash-drive segment that the Asus Eee has explosively created. Even if you don't approve of violence in the media, it is impossible not to...
[March 10, 2008, 16:56]
Vodafone to sell Dell netbook in Europe
News Several other operators are already offering similar netbook-plus-mobile-broadband deals — notably 3, with the HP 2133 Mini-Note and Orange with the Asus Eee 900 — but those packages involve a netbook with a separate mobile broadband dongle.
[September 9, 2008, 14:47]
Apple MacBook Pro 2009 (2.66GHz, 17in.) review
Reviews At a little bit less than 2.5cm thick, this 17in.system is actually thinner than some of the chunkier 10in.netbooks, such as the Asus Eee PC 1000HE. Internally, Apple has moved to an Nvidia chipset with improved integrated graphics, which is then...
[March 2, 2009, 14:50]
OLPC available on Amazon
Blog It will be interesting to see how the OLPC XO fares given the arrival of the netbook - such as the Asus Eee - a device that can probably trace its evolution directly to the OLPC ( in fact another low cost machine the Intel Classmate uses much of...
[September 7, 2008, 22:41]
Samsung to offer full-size-keyboard netbook
News If the claim is borne out by testing, this brings the latest in Samsung's range closer to new rivals, such as Asus's 1000HE Eee PC, which offers a similar battery life. Samsung has unveiled its latest netbook, the N120.
[March 26, 2009, 11:25]
Debian 'Lenny' released
News Explicit support for netbooks such as the Asus Eee PC has also been introduced. Debian 5.0, code-named 'Lenny', has been officially released. Scheduled for a Saturday 'Valentine's Day' release, the distro was made available on Sunday, Steve...
[February 16, 2009, 11:45]
The return of Apricot
Blog It costs £279 for the SUSE Linux version (about £40 more for the XP version, as I recall from the event where I saw the thing last night), which means that, for the same cash, you could pick yourself up an Asus Eee 901.
[October 16, 2008, 12:53]
Microsoft makes hard decisions easier
Blog Comment As for the Asus Eee, I've been gratified by the number of my friends who've bought or been given Eees for Christmas and who are thoroughly enjoying their new toy. Always a pleasure to see new faces, especially when they come along, like London...
[December 31, 2007, 16:59]
Netbooks expected to drive PC-market growth
News The growth was led by "the wide appeal of low-cost portables", like the Asus Eee PC, the analyst firm said. Analyst firm IDC has said PC shipments worldwide have increased more than expected, despite economic sluggishness in the US.
[September 11, 2008, 11:27]
Mandriva releases netbook Linux distro
News The French company has already released a version of its platform tailored to Asus's Eee PC netbook. Mandriva has introduced a version of its Linux operating system that is optimised for netbooks, the increasingly popular class of low-cost...
[September 22, 2008, 11:44]
Ubuntu 9.04 release candidate published
News Ubuntu 9.04 is known to work on Asus's Eee PC 900, Acer's Aspire One and Dell's Mini 9 devices. The Ubuntu project has published a release candidate, or final testing version, for the upcoming 9.04 version of its popular Linux distribution.
[April 17, 2009, 8:46]
Keep your code clean to make it green
Blog I think the jury is still out on which OS we should be using on our Acer Aspire or Asus Eee - and with open source already doing such a good job for these machines, I don’t see much point in mounting a campaign for cleaner corporate coding in this...
[November 21, 2008, 8:16]
Intel unveils its tech treasures
News The Asus Eee is a $200 (£99) Linux laptop. The world's fastest quad core, running at 5.56GHz, thanks to that big black pipe connected to.the world's biggest heatsink. Closely resembling the cooling system on a Morris 1100, this beast keeps the CPU...
[September 21, 2007, 11:24]
The Redfly 'Notbook'
Blog Hmmm, a dumb terminal or a ASUS Eee-alike? When is a netbook (or mini-notebook) not a netbook? When it's a 'notbook' such as Celio's Redfly Mobile Companion, that's when. You might have thought that the idea of a netbook-format companion device for...
[August 29, 2008, 14:49]
Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex edges closer
News When Intrepid Ibex was first announced, back in February, project founder Mark Shuttleworth wrote that the project would aim to make Intrepid work as well on a high-end PC as it did on a sub-notebook, such as Asus's Eee PC.
[September 8, 2008, 13:18]
Dell reveals launch details of Mini 10 netbook
News Dell is also offering its netbook users a free 2GB of online storage — a similar strategy to that already in use by Asus with its Eee PCs — with paid-for online storage options going up to 100GB. Dell launched its 10-inch-screened netbook, the...
[February 23, 2009, 16:12]
Midnight on La Rambla
Blog By way of experiment, I'm trying to do as much as possible of the show using the Asus Eee and HSDPA. We made it. Team ZDNet has successfully decanted itself onto the Gatwick Express, into the EasyJet Airbus of Dreams, shuffled dolefully along the...
[February 10, 2008, 23:50]
Windows XP SP3 out by end of April
News Microsoft will continue to allow XP to be sold on some computers, but only low-cost subnotebooks such as the Asus Eee, which do not have the processing power to handle Vista's requirements. The third and final service pack for Windows XP could be...
[April 16, 2008, 12:17]
Sony launches P-series ultraportable PC
News Despite the fact that the size and form factor of the Vaio P are similar to those of netbooks such as those in Asus's Eee PC range, Sony has avoided tagging the Vaio P with the term 'netbook'. Sony on Wednesday launched the Vaio P, a lightweight...
[January 8, 2009, 15:00]
