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Apple Mass-Purchases Touchscreens from Wintek — For Netbooks?

Riyad Kalla — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:00:36 +0000

While it’s surely a mockup right now, the picture above might not be so far off from a 10″ Mac Netbook from Apple rumored to be approaching Q3 of 2009. The movement in the industry that seems to have tipped Apple’s hand early (besides everyone waiting for a Netbook from Apple for about 20 years [...]

Windows 7 on a Lenovo Ideapad S10e Netbook

Ray Gomez — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:24:06 +0000

At the end of January I ordered a nice shiny Lenovo Ideapad S10e from Buy.com. I managed to get a decent price that didn’t hurt the pocketbook, and it was a new toy that I could endlessly experiment with. I started to install a wide variety of operating systems to check for support and to [...]

HP Mini 1000 "Mi" Netbook Uses Custom Ubuntu Interface by HP

Riyad Kalla — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 23:19:26 +0000

HP has just dropped news about their upcoming netbook the “Mi”, and besides running Ubuntu 8.04 it is actually rocking a completely custom UI designed by HP specifically for the Netbook. Looking nothing like Canonical’s Ubuntu Netbook Remix distribution, it seems that HP went back to the drawing board with this and implemented their own [...]