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Lenovo drops netbooks from their online roster
Posted on24. Feb, 2012 by Albert Madison.
Lenovo has stopped selling netbooks through their online store. The PC company went through their stock of 10.1-inch IdeaPad netbooks and according to a Lenovo rep. the company isn’t going to offer any more netbooks in the near future. The company now only carries the 11.6-inch Lenovo ThinkPad X130e ultra-portable as it’s smallest sized laptop computer. Previously [...]
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“Instant On”, can it help save the netbook?
Posted on24. Feb, 2012 by Paul.
Speed is something that netbooks aren’t really known for, and that’s what disqualifies the little machines for many consumers today. With more affordable portable laptops that have better processors, more storage, and sometimes fast SSD storage coming to market the netbooks is becoming more of an afterthought in major markets like the United States. However [...]
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Sleek new ASUS netbooks on tap for CES 2012
Posted on02. Jan, 2012 by Albert Madison.
Not to long from now the big Consumer Electronics Show for 2012 will be kicking off in Las Vegas, Nevada. At this years CES show there will be a lot of focus on thin and light laptops, netbooks and of course tablets when it comes to computing. For netbooks I can already see Intel’s new [...]
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Intel begins shipping Cedar Trail Atom chips for netbooks, better performance same low power consumption
Posted on28. Dec, 2011 by LaptopMan.
The netbook isn’t dead, no matter what you might have heard. The mini-laptops are still being developed along with the hardware that resides within them. Just today Intel announced they had begun shipping the latest Intel Atom processing chips for netbooks, the 32nm Cedar Trail processors. According to Intel the two chips they released today, [...]
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Dell putting an end to netbooks?
Posted on15. Dec, 2011 by Albert Madison.
It seems like only yesterday netbooks were the talk of the of the computing world when it came to mobile computing, but now netbooks are getting the silent treatment from a growing number of consumers and PC vendors alike. Dell has updated their online store, where Dell makes a ton of sales, so that netbooks [...]
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