President of Acer (JT Wang) himself has confirmed that the Acer has been working on touchscreen netbooks, which will be made available by the end of this year. The EEE T101 is NOT going to left alone in competition of touch screen netbooks/tablets. I hope they make them with swivel display so that they can be used as tablets
[via digitimes]
Last week, B. Lebanc at Microsoft made a post about “Windows on Netbook PCs: A Year in Review” (link), where he mentioned how the netbook scene has changed from the past couple of years. He mentions,
Not only are people overwhelmingly buying Windows, but those that try Linux are often returning it. Both MSI – a leading netbook PC OEM – and Canonical – the vendor supporting the commercial distribution of Ubuntu Linux – stated publicly they saw Linux return rates 4 times higher than Windows. Why such a disparity? Because users simply expect the Windows experience.
Ouch! Linux fans are not going to like this. Folks at Canonical disagree with the Microsoft and say that the return rate is actually similar to that of Windows based netbooks. According to them, it is the quality and out-of-box experience matters the most and is responsible for the returns.
Whatever Microsoft says, they have to admit one thing that the future is very bright for Linux. Ubuntu can run on ARM processors which consume nearly 1/10th (in some cases) of what the Atom consumes. Microsoft currently has not plans to make its ‘desktop OS’ to run on ARM platform. The reason is obvious: They have Windows Mobile for that. Unfortunately, Windows Mobile is not in a situation to battle with the mighty Ubuntu.
Right now, I’m typing this post on EEEbuntu (custom UBUNTU variant) and I’m very happy with the fact that I do not have to deal with the viruses, trojans blah blah. True, the popularity of the Linux platform is not as great as the Windows platform, but it now growing at a pretty nice rate, thanks to the netbook vendors who are now supplying the certain models with some linux-distro.
Folks at pcauthority were able to get their hands on the EEE PC 1004DN, the first netbook with built-in DVD burner.
The real killer feature here is that optical drive; it’s a big departure for the netbook category, and adds backup capability and software installation possibilities that other systems lack. In addition, there’s an Eee Storage function, to wirelessly backup your system.
The 1004DN is powered by Intel Atom N280 processor clocked at @1.66GHz speed. The HDD capacity is 120GB and it comes with 1GB of RAM. Obviously, the main feature of is the DVD burner, which is surely going to catch the attention of those who did not give much attention to the netbooks due to lack of DVD burner.
Personally, I still do not see the need to have a netbook with built in DVD burner.
Click here to read the review
When we first heard about the Samsung N120’s claim that it features not 90% laptop size keyboard, but 100% laptop size keyboard, our initial thoughts were that the N120 is going to be a really wide netbook. But as per Samsung N120 official webpage, the dimensions are 10.27″(w) x 1.19″ x 7.3″ . To give you a better idea of the width, here are the dimensions of the ASUS EEE 1000H: 10.47″(w) x 7.53″ x 1.50.
This means that the N120 is infact smaller width-wise. Now, how did they manage to put in a full laptop keyboard in there? Or is it may be just a new marketing idea by Samsung.
Twitter clients are on fire! As the popularity of the twitter grows more and more everyday, lot of programmers have taken interest in developing applications that let the people twit easily.
Main Features
It is nice to see another twitter application for windows mobile.
Download here (freeware)
Since the launch of the first EEE PC, the ASUS has been paying special attention to their EEE product line. They started off with just the EEE PCs and gradually added more products under the EEE brand. Their recent addition is the EEE Videophone, which claims to be the “World’s First PC-free Videophone for Skype”. It comes with a large 7-inch display and a rather shabby 0.3MP camera. The display resolution is WVGA (800×480)
It comes with built in wifi to effortlessly connect it to the skype and do video calling. For the folks who do not have wifi at home, they can use the not-so-sleek Ethernet connection to get online. It comes with a rechargeable battery. Weighing at 1.6kg, it just offers 20mins talk time and a rather long 2 hour charging time. You better use it on power adapter as you are not going to be able to do a lot of talking if you are not on AC adapter.
Dimensions: 202 mm (L) x 123 mm (W) x 253 mm (H)
Skype Services:
