Dell has announced that it will discontinue all focus and manufacture of Mini series and other Netbooks, their reason for doing this is the investment of the same effort in up ramping of Ultrabooks that seem to be the new rage in the Industry. Samsung had announced similar plans earlier last month, shifting their focus to Ultrabook. Dell has already discontinued the Streak tablets, now they have retired the netbooks. The netbooks appear to be missing from the Dell India site swell so it looks like a global deployment.
Apparently business/enterprise clients can still get the Mini for large scale orders.
Microsoft Windows President Steven Sinofsky after a quick announcement and a simple demonstration explained that Win8 demanded fewer system resources than Win7 with the same hardware specs
With a Lenovo S10 in his hand he showed that an early-gen Atom CPU and 1GB of RAM is “enough” to run the new OS (AKA Windows 8 )
Samsung has released a Solar powered netbook that will be available in the US and Russia. The rear side of the display houses a solar panel that can generate an hours worth of power for every two hours of exposure to direct sunlight.
The netbook’s 10.1 inch 1024x600px display is specially designed for extra brightness and is also layered with an anti reflective coating for use outdoors. The netbook features either a dual-core N570 or single-core N455 Intel Atom processor, with a choice of a 250 or 320 GB harddrive. A sleep mode called ‘Samsung Fast Start’ combines [...]
Intel’s Linux based OS grabbing a lot of attention in the past has finally come to version 1.2. This revision adds improved Atom support and bug fixes, The newer audio and networking stacks improve overall performance and add A2DP streaming and HSPA+ support. The new Tablet UI shown off in February by Intel has also been included in the revision. Hit the link below for a complete change-log and download goodness.
MeeGo Reference Kernels supporting a variety of Intel Atom and ARMv7 platforms. QML Application Framework and extended Qt-Mobility APIs, including additional location, system, connectivity, and sensor/haptic capabilities for rapid, rich, application [...]
Just like the business series, HP has also revamped an announced new range of Consumer series laptops. The New Pavilion DV4 has been revamped with new mesh color options, a newer multicore processor and the price is set at just 600$
#gallery-2 { margin: [...]MSI has expanded their Wind line-up with the launch of the Wind U160MX netbook, a product called by MSI as the “dream machine”.
The Wind U160MX has
Intel Atom N455 processor (1.66 GHz) 10” LED screen (1024×600) DDR3-667 memory (2 GB max) SATA harddrive (250 GB or 320 GB) Integrated video (Intel GMA 3150) 2-in-1 card reader (SD/MMC), Fast Ethernet 802.11 b/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1, 0.3 Mpixel webcam 3-cell battery.The lappy also features TDE (Turbo Drive Engine) technology, which increase the CPU clock to boost the performance, and a [...]
