UK Netbook Review

Netbooked speculates that two large players in the netbook space, Samsung and Lenovo, maybe be launching new netbooks based on VIA’s VX900 processor.  They point out that both manufacturers have used VIA processors before – the Samsung with the Samsung NC20 and Lenovo i the IdeaPad S12.   Supposedly the new VIA VX900processor will be [...]

The new USB 3.0 standard offers data transfer speeds up to 10 times faster than the 480Mb/s that is possible from the current USB 2.0. Normally, new tech like this is reserved for the high end machines, costing thousands of dollars before it trickles down, but DigiTimes reports that Asus will be adding USB 3.0 support to the Eee PC netbook and Eee Box nettop lines soon.

NVIDIA is introducing a new technology that allow laptops and netbooks to switch between integrated and dedicated graphics chips. For example, if you’re on Facebook, writing email, or just doing light surfing, you could switch to your chipset’s integrated graphics chip to save power. Then, when you’re watching an HD movie, or playing a graphics intensive game, NVIDIA’s new technology will automatically switch to the higher performance, dedicated, graphics card. The technology, which Nvidia showed off today, is called Optimus, and it’s designed to work with GeForce 200M, 300M, and GeForce M GPUs as well as the soon to be released NVIDIA ION 2 graphics processor. It supports Intel’s Core 2 Duo, Core i3, i5, and i7 processors and Intel Atom N450 CPUs.

While netbooks currently consist of about 10% of the current PC market, ARM CEO Warren East, says that’s about to change.  He states: “Although netbooks are small today – maybe 10% of the PC market at most – we believe over the next several years that could completely change around and that could be 90% of [...]

The prototype we’re looking at here is a Nvidia Tegra powered tablet with a resistive touchscreen display spanning somewhere around 15 to 16 inches. It runs Windows CE , the company behind the machine is ICD. This particular unit was built to try and convince T-Mobile to order some units – presumably to fit a 3g modem and bundle with a data package.