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Why are we pinning Linux desktop hopes on netbooks
Original at InfoWorld
• 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. ...
Acer Passes Dell As No. 2 Notebook Maker
Original at VARBusiness
• 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 ...
Lenovo updates Netbook line: meet the IdeaPad S10-2
Original at CNET News.com
• Mon, May 11
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
Review: HP dv2 notebook
Original at Geek.com
• 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, ...
Call for Thinkpad Netbook Ideas
Original at TheTechLounge
• 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. ...
HP Unveils ProBook Laptop, Samsung N110 review, ThinkPad Netbook ...
Original at Geek WIth Laptop
• Tue, Apr 28
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
Revive the Butterfly Keyboard?
Original at Gotta Be Mobile
• Mon, Apr 27
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 ...
No Apple Netbook Yet? Hack Your Own MacBook 'Cloud'
Original at PC World
• Mon, Apr 27
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: ...
It's Time For a Netbook With a Butterfly Keyboard
Original at jkOnTheRun
• 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. ...
Lenovo Asks: Should It Sell a ThinkPad Netbook?
Original at PC Magazine
• Mon, Apr 27
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.
IBM ThinkPad Z61 Laptop
Original at Geek WIth Laptop
• 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 ...
Lenovo considering ThinkPad netbook; IdeaPad S20 in May
Original at SlashGear
• Fri, Apr 24
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 ...
Review: Asus Eee PC 1000HE Netbook
Original at Notebooks.com
• Wed, Apr 8
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 ...
Dell Inspiron Mini 12 -- the big-screen, thin $599 netbook
Original at The Guardian (UK)
• 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...