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Tag: Netbooks

  • Google Is Making Their Own Netbooks In this video about how Chromium OS will boot quickly (at around 2:35), the speaker mentions “we’re also using solid state storage devices… not hard disk drives” and how that will let Google Chrome OS load much faster. My question is how would Google know what sort of hard…

  • – Astro Boy netbook takes flight in Taiwan This is a pretty sweet silhouette-Astro Boy decoration for a laptop. I’d change it up a bit though, and remove all the text, center the image, make it a bit bigger, etc…

  • Face it Linux, Most Netbooks Will Sell Windows 7

    And they will sell well. Image by Kordite via Flickr People all over the place are kidding themselves.  One of which include Brian Proffitt.  I tried to write a comment in response to his article talking about Linux’s competitiveness on Netbooks given that Windows 7 can run on netbooks (thanks for turning off comments on…

  • How Good Is the Asus Eee 1000?

    Image by Kamil Porembiński via Flickr I don’t have many tech gadgets or toys, but my Eee PC 1000 is one of the best purchases I’ve ever made.  Though admittedly I have conditioned myself to say that after paying so much for the 1000 model when it was still fairly new in Canada.  It definitely…