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Dell Alienware M11x 11.6 inch laptop now available

Who says you can’t game on a sub-12 inch notebook platform? Certainly not Dell as they’ve announced the availability of the Alienware M11x which provides the graphics power typically found on larger laptop systems with the form factor and battery life of thin-and-light notebook systems. According to Dell, the 11.6 inch Alienware M11x scores over 6100 with the 3DMark06 benchmark – easily crushing integrated graphics performance typically found on competing 11.6 inch systems. What makes this al...

Dell adds six new nail polish colors to the Inspiron Mini 10

For those of you who believe that nail polish colors rule, you’ll be thrilled to hear that Dell has added six new nail polish shades to the Inspiron Mini 10 netbook as part of a partnership with QPI. The six colors, all inspired by the city of Hong Kong, are Dim Sum Plum, Hot & Spicy, Jade is the New Black, Meet Me on the Star Ferry, Red My Fortune Cookie, and Suzi Says Feng Shui. Dim Sum Plum: Hot & Spicy: Jade is the New Black:   Meet Me on the Star Ferry: Suzi Says Feng Shu...

Dell announces Latitude 13 thin-and-light for businesses

Dell announces a new “beauty” for the corporate world with yesterday’s introduction of the new thin-and-light Latitude 13 notebook. Taking design cues from the popular Vostro 13, the Latitude 13 is supposedly the “world’s thinnest 13 inch commercial client laptop” and comes with many of the same internal guts as those found on the Vostro 13. Additional corporate features on the Latitude 13 include: Support for Broadcom TruManage technology and Dell ImageDirect service which lets IT create, u...

Google shows off Chromium OS form factors

While the primary focus of the upcoming Google Chromium OS is the netbook form factor, this doesn’t mean Google isn’t considering other form factors for the browser-based OS. If you head on over to http://dev.chromium.org/chromium-os/user-experience/form-factors, you’ll find a variety of possible form factors for the Chromium OS – everything from tablets to laptops to desktop systems to large-screen displays. For each form factor, Google outlines the changes to the user interface one might exp...

ABI Research predicts 4 million tablets to ship in 2010, growing to 57 million in 2015

[Reprinted from Krunker.com] A new study by ABI Research predicts up to 4 million tablets will ship this year growing to 57 million annually by the year 2015. According to senior analyst Jeff Orr,”Apple’s iPad is not the first media tablet..But it does help define this new device category. The main focus of media tablets is entertainment.” Furthermore, Orr expects tablets to remain as a “premium or luxury product for wealthy industrialized markets for at least several years” with units not expec...

Netbook Deals of the Day

Yeah it’s been awhile since we ran a “Netbook Deals of the Day” posting – mostly because the holiday season was over and the transition to the new Pine Trail platform was upon us. However, with Valentine’s Day right around the corner, several e-tailers are running netbook deals that you might be interested in, so without further ado, let’s check out them deals! In the thin-and-light category, Newegg is selling the Toshiba Satellite T135-S1305 notebook for a mere $549.99 ($150 dollars off the ori...

NetbookTech wins a 2010 Golden Retrevo Award!

We’re honored and absolutely thrilled to announce that NetbookTech has won a 2010 Golden Retrevo Award for outstanding achievement in the “Laptops, Netbooks, & Desktops” space at Retrevo.com. In case you’re not familiar with Retrevo, they’re one of the top consumer electronics shopping and reviews sites out there with more than 5 million visitors a month. Getting an award from Retrevo is truly an honor and we’d like to extend our sincerest thanks to everyone at Retrevo and the general pub...

HP Mini 210 unboxing pictures

Yes, we’ve got our hands on a new netbook, and it’s none other than the HP Mini 210 (specifically the Mini 210-1095NR) in Sonoma Red. This netbook features: 10.1 inch WSVGA anti-glare widescreen display 160GB 5400RPM HDD 1GB DDR2 SDRAM 802.11 b/g Wi-Fi 6 cell Lithium-Ion battery Intel Graphcis Media Accelerator 3150 5 in 1 media card reader Intel Atom N450 processor clocked at 1.66GHz Windows 7 Starter 32 bit edition Built-in webcam Stay tuned for our review but do not it’ll take s...

Samsung N220 RAM Upgrade and Internals

Thanks and credit go again to nDevil. Here we see the N220 dissected for our viewing pleasure. nDevil points out a spare PCI-e which might prove useful to anyone willing to invalidate their warranty in exchange for a hardware upgrade. If you do put anything cool inside your N220 then please let us know about your N220 hacks in our forum.Samsung N220 InternalsWhat RAM do you need to upgrade the N220 to 2gb?The official specifications note the following:System Memory 1GB (DDR2 / 1GB x 1)Memory...