UK Netbook Review

Toshiba launched a new budget minded nebook at CES last week called the Toshiba Mini NB505.   Starting at $299, the mini-laptop features a 10.1 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display, 1.66 GHz Intel Atom N455 CPU, 1GB of RAM, and a 250GB hard drive and runs Windows 7 Starter Edition. One of the only [...]

There have been quite a few new netbooks and laptops with AMD’s new Fusion chips including the low-power Ontario and Zacate processors, and we expect to see even more at CES next week.   Today, someone at Toshiba Germany apparently didn’t feel like waiting, and published a product page for a new model called theT oshiba [...]

Remember the Toshiba NB520, a new 10 inch netbook with a dual core Intel Atom N550 processor and Harmon Kardon stereo speakers that we reported on the other day? Well, it looks like Toshiba has another new netbook up its sleave.=The company has also introduced the NB500, which features a similar design, but on the more budget end of the scale.

Toshiba latest 10 inch netbook has a rather unusual trick up its sleeve. Rather than the usual tinny netbook speakers, Toshiba has teamed up with Harman Kardon to provide the NB520 netbook with two Haman Kardon speakers tucked into the palm rest area. That should give this netbook better sound than your average 10 inch mini-laptop although don’t expect it to rival your home stereo. One nice feature is that you can also use these speakers with the netbook is turned off. Just plug in an MP3 player to blast your music to the world. The computer can also supply power to the USB port even when the PC is shut off, allowing you to charge gadgets without powering up the netbook.

The Toshiba AC100 is a netbook running the Android OS, and powered by the new NVIDIA Tegra 2 chip. This low power ARM-based chip combines the CPU and GPU onto a single chip and doesn’t take up a lot of space. What’s more, it’s also a low power chip, which means it doesn’t generate a [...]