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May of 2009

 

Rate Why are we pinning Linux desktop hopes on netbooks

Original at InfoWorld external link    Wed, May 20

 CA By Savio Rodrigues (@SavioRodrigues) I've been reading the recent Linux and netbook blogs/analysis with great interest as my wife's ThinkPad T40 is nearing death. I asked her if she wanted a Mac, a netbook, or another ThinkPad. ...

Rate Acer Passes Dell As No. 2 Notebook Maker

Original at VARBusiness external link    Wed, May 13

 NY Toshiba ranks fourth while Lenovo -- even with the brand recognition of its ThinkPad line of notebooks -- rounds out the top five with 2.1 million units moved in the first quarter. Acer was far and away the class of the netbook field, with 30.5 percent ...

Rate Lenovo updates Netbook line: meet the IdeaPad S10-2

Original at CNET News.com external link    Mon, May 11

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by Dan Ackerman We were impressed with the recent 6-cell battery upgrade for Lenovo's S10 Netbook, and now the company (most famous for the ThinkPad line of business laptops) has announced a bigger revamp. The Lenovo IdeaPad S10-2 (well, ... Lenovo IdeaPad S10e White Cover CD Freaks.com

Rate Review: HP dv2 notebook

Original at Geek.com external link    Mon, May 4

 - Sal Cangeloso At 3.8 pounds and 0.93-inches thick it is portable (on par with something like the ThinkPad X200) but it'sa bit large for a netbook (Samsung's NC10 is 2.8 pounds). Our test machine (dv2-1001xx) arrived with Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit, ...

April of 2009

 

Rate Call for Thinkpad Netbook Ideas

Original at TheTechLounge external link    Wed, Apr 29

 TX Not Lenovo, apparently. The company is considering entering the space with a business-minded, ThinkPad netbook. "It's an area we're exploring," Lenovo analyst Matthew Kohut told APC Magazine, "but I can't comment one way or the other. ...

Rate HP Unveils ProBook Laptop, Samsung N110 review, ThinkPad Netbook ...

Original at Geek WIth Laptop external link    Tue, Apr 28

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HP Unveils ProBook Laptop Line - Post Chronicle - Hewlett-Packard Co, the world's top PC maker, is launching a new line of inexpensive business laptops with fresh features targeting users at small and medium-size companies. The HP ProBook s-series, ... HP ProBook 4510s notebook Geek.com

Rate Revive the Butterfly Keyboard?

Original at Gotta Be Mobile external link    Mon, Apr 27

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I'm certainly not the only one that wishes there were some magical way to have a full-sized keyboard on a netbook. ThinkPads have some of the best keyboards in the industry . Back in 1995, the ThinkPad 701 came with an innovative keyboard called the ...

Rate No Apple Netbook Yet? Hack Your Own MacBook 'Cloud'

Original at PC World external link    Mon, Apr 27

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ThinkPad T400 Lenovo's T400 delivers long battery life and excellent software at a reasonable price for a business notebook. 2007 Microsoft Office Suites Comparison This paper compares and contrasts four suites of the 2007 Microsoft Office system: ...

Rate It's Time For a Netbook With a Butterfly Keyboard

Original at jkOnTheRun external link    Mon, Apr 27

 Texas This weekend I was giving a lot of thought to this problem and it hit me: Why not revive the Butterfly Keyboard? IBM produced the ThinkPad 701, otherwise known as the TrackWrite, in 1995 and it was certainly ahead of its time. ...

Rate Lenovo Asks: Should It Sell a ThinkPad Netbook?

Original at PC Magazine external link    Mon, Apr 27

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Different user scenario, different product." Comments on the site have been generally positive, with nearly all calling for Lenovo to maintain the much-loved ThinkPad keyboard. A version of this post originally appeared on Gearlog.

Rate IBM ThinkPad Z61 Laptop

Original at Geek WIth Laptop external link    Sat, Apr 25

 New York Since the Netbook war began back in 2007 when the first ultraportable Netbook made its debut on the market, computer manufacturers have been falling over themselves trying to produce lighter, thinner, faster, trendier, greener and so on Netbooks and ...

Rate Lenovo considering ThinkPad netbook; IdeaPad S20 in May

Original at SlashGear external link    Fri, Apr 24

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 AZ Lenovo's existing IdeaPad netbooks are sturdy, safe choices in the segment, but they could soon gain a ThinkPad-branded sibling. Likely targeted more at business use, compared to the consumer-focused IdeaPad line, the ThinkPad netbook is not yet ...

Rate Review: Asus Eee PC 1000HE Netbook

Original at Notebooks.com external link    Wed, Apr 8

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 CA The LCD lid unfortunately doesn’t quite open up 180 degrees or more which is annoying to me since I like to prop my fully opened Lenovo ThinkPad X200 on my thighs on an airplane and read it like a book. The display becomes twice as large because it’s ...

Year 2008

 

Rate Dell Inspiron Mini 12 -- the big-screen, thin $599 netbook

Original at The Guardian (UK) external link    Mon, Oct 27

By Jack Schofield Dell is launching the system in Japan, so it runs Windows Vista Home Basic, but as APC points out, the Windows Experience "rating of 1.0 doesn't give us much confidence". (You really shouldn't buy a notebook PC unless it rates better than 3.0.) Later, however, Dell also expects to offer the cho...

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