May 28, 2010

Once upon a time, there was Apple’s Newton. It was so advanced and expensive that consumers… hmm… trashed it. Then the market moves on. Apple’s iPad brought us back to the world of tablets where every single techno-titan such as Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo and Fujitsu tried to saturate with their convertible laptops and failed. Yes, those...

I already owned three netbooks since february of this year but my desire to own new one hasn’t end. Last february, I bought an MSI Wind U100 for Php15,900.00. It was my first portable computer since I came to know the bits and bytes of digital world. The unit came with no bluetooth and has limited 80GB of hard disk space. Later on, after a month of craving...

Mar 30, 2009

It’s a fact for netbook enthusiasts that 2009 is the year when the inexpensive and lightweight sub notebook are being packed with more features previously only available on their bigger brothers. Last year we had MSI Wind, Acer Aspire One and Asus Eee to choose from. They were all equipped with the same basic features such as Atom N270 CPU, 1GB DDR2...

Asustek, the first company to conquer the sub notebook market with its Eee 700 netbook is about to launch another Eee brand netbook with built-in optial disc drive (ODD). The E1004DN will be the first netbook to be equipped with an ODD and will be priced around $531-590. This may be quite odd as this machine is already encroaching the low-cost notebook market....

Feb 3, 2009

One thing that separates Asus from other netbook manufacturers is the longer battery life. The first netbooks they made were able to last around 7 hours or more. Compared that to MSI’s U90x which poorly reached a quarter of it, around 2 hours. Now comes another netbook to satisfy your power efficiency requirement, the Eee 1000HE equipped with new Intel...