UK Netbook Review

For the past two years, virtually every netbook released has shipped with an Intel Atom processor and integrated graphics. A few mini-laptops with 12 inch displays shook things up a bit with NVIDIA ION graphics or Broadcom HD video accelerators, but the truth is that if you look at the performance section of most of my netbook reviews over the last few years you won’t find a lot of surprises.

Announced just a few weeks ago at CES 2010, the new Lenovo Thinkpad x100e slots nicely into the niche of ‘Business Netbooks’ and today Netbooked has gotten their hands on one to put up a review. The 11.6” Lenovo ThinkPad X100e seems to have made a good impression with Pete, and he raves about the design and the ergonomics “best keyboard and trackpad so far on an 11.6-incher and a matte display to boot”.

Michael Arrington, of Techcrunch.com, went out and bought one of the first HP DreamScreens and has reviewed it on video. While some blogs touted this as the Apple iTablet killer, it quickly becomes apparent that Arrington does not buy into this point of view. Arrnington himself is quick to point out his conflict of interest – his company is currently developing the Crunchpad tablet which is due out in November and , conveniently, makes a cameo appearance on his desk during the review(see image above).

A little while ago the first Touchbooks, from Always Innovating, started shipping and arriving on customers’ doorsteps.  The Touchbook is a sort of 2-part nebook where the screen can actually separate from it’s keyboard base and act as a stand alone tablet.  We covered the first unboxing here.  Now, the company itself has published two [...]

1000HE is the new Netbook from Asus with 10 inch LED backlit display and the new N280 processor which clocks at 1.66Ghz and has FSB of 667Mhz. Other than that, It’s basically the 1000HA except with a chiclet keyboard, 802.11 draft n support, Bluetooth and a toted 9.5 hour battery life.