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Samsung Netbook Bundle

Thanks to Matt at NetbookReviews.net for pointing this one out to me. Samsung have bundled up three products for netbook owners: Tech Air Netbook Sleeve Panda Antivirus 2010 Ability Office v5 Home Edition I have to agree with Matt’s suggestion that this isn’t something you’d desperately want to add your shopping list, I would imagine many netbook owners choosing to use free anti virus alternatives (such as Avast, AVG or MSE), free Office suites (such as Open Office or Google...

Acer Aspire One D260 coming to UK on July 1st

Liliputing reports the new 10 inch Acer Aspire One D260 netbook will go on sale in the UK starting on July 1st, 2010. This updated Aspire One features the following: Intel Atom N450 or N455 processor 10.1 inch 1024 x 600 resolution display Intel GMA 3150 graphics Up to 250GB HDD 1GB of RAM 6 cell battery The Aspire One D260 will feature Windows 7 Starter but will also supposedly be available with Google Android as an option. No word on pricing as of yet. [Check it out]

Google Chrome OS netbooks to be priced between $300 – $400 dollars

  Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, expects netbooks running the upcoming Google Chrome OS to be competitively priced between $300 to $400 dollars. In a YouTube video found by Tech Rader, Schmidt says: “Those prices are completely determined by the costs of the glass, the costs of the processor and things like that.. but in our case Chrome OS and Android are free so there is no software tax associated with all of this.” Sorry Schmidt but do you know what the average selling price of netbooks a...

Google Chrome to bundle Flash

This really shouldn’t come as a surprise to most of you but the latest rumor on the Google Chrome browser/OS front is the notion that Google will bundle Adobe Flash with the system. Ah yes – a nice little poke at systems without support for Flash (ahem .. iPad?). Of course Flash on a netbook is already a very painful experience – at least in the high definition video arena. Sure 10.1 will fix this for systems running NVIDIA and ATI graphics but the vast majority of Intel-integrated graphics sys...

Samsung Corby Netbook to Hit Europe

Thanks to NetbookItalia.it for this news.We have blogged in the past about the many different colours of the new Atom N450 based Samsung N150 Netbook that was released early on in 2010, but thanks to NetbookItalia we now know that this forms part of Samsung's "Corby" branding.The Corby range of phones are aimed at the mass market end of the spectrum, and the N150 perhaps fits in with this model too.Charles Barlocco, the Vice President of Samsung's IT Division had this to say [Translated via Goog...

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...

ASUS smartbook with Android due early 2010

Asus boss Jerry Shen late at an investor conference yesterday, said his company is an Android-based SmartBook on shelves by early 2010. Reversing earlier doubts about a market for such a system, says Shen, based on a portable Snapdragon, Qualcomm’s chips and the Google mobile OS should be the first “secret weapon” for the company. Specifications are not available, but Smart Books are normally with 1 GHz or faster processors and a relatively low amount of RAM and permanent storage, since they ...