“Two hours of charging in sunlight provides up to an hour of work” – Samsung After a successful launch in African market, Samsung is going to introduce their solar powered notbook, NC215S, in Russia. The entire back-side of the LED panel is covered with solar cells that boast overall battery life in sunlight to a [...]
Hercules announced two variants of the upgraded eCAFE netbook, both feature a 10.1 inch LED HD display. The eCAFE slim HD offers the lightest and slimmest design to be offered in a netbook while the eCAFE Ex HD offers 13 hours of battery time which is the longest battery time of any netbook on the [...]
Google Chrome team has announced their first netbook running Chrome OS by the name Cr-48. Google is giving away this unbranded netbook for free to limited people via their pilot program. As for masses, Google netbooks by Samsung and Acer will be available in mid 2011. The Chrome team is sending emails to early subscribers [...]
The Google Chrome team is holding an event on December 7th at San Francisco to release the much awaited Google Branded Chrome OS netbook. The Chrome OS netbook will change the fact that ‘netbooks are good at nothing‘ for sure with lightening fast operating system targeted towards internet addicts. The idea is to have an [...]
Lenovo is entering into tablet market with an all new idea, i.e. Hybrid Tablet/Laptop. The product consists of two modules: a fully functional tablet known as LePad and the docking station that is a complete laptop minus screen. The LePad acts as a screen when connected to the docking station named Ideapad U1. The company [...]
JEDEC Solid State Technology Association, known for defining memory standards, has announced the publication for DDR3L, an addendum to DDR3 memory standard. DDR3L, stands for DDR3 Low Voltage, will consume a single 1.35V power supply making it 15% more power efficient than DDR3 that consumes 1.5V. Moreover, DDR3L consumes 40% less power than DDR2 memory, [...]
Asus has announced the addition of USB 3.0 technology to its numerous devices and motherboards including Eee PC and Eee Box. USB 3.0 offers up to 10 times more speed than its predecessor USB 2.0. According to Asus, adding USB 3.0 to motherboards was not just enough, they had to add the technology to netbooks, [...]
Recently Nvidia announced its next generation of Ion platform having dedicated graphics memory. The new Ion is based on Nvidia Optimus technology that delivers a 10 hour of superb graphics performance on a single charge. Acer Aspire One 532G and Asus Eee PC 1201PN are the first Ion 2 based netbooks.
NVIDIA Ion has been a success enabling healthy graphical support to low end devices such as netbook, nettops and All-in-One desktops. Among the netbook manufacturers, ASUS, Lenovo and HP were on the top of the list to market netbooks based on NVIDIA Ion. Those netbooks were a great success and had quite an edge over [...]
Chrome OS is among the latest operating system by Google for next generation devices. The operating system is designed especially for netbooks or low powered devices, but you can also enjoy the experience on your laptop and desktop. The simplest way to run the Chrome OS on your computer is by making its Bootable/Live flash [...]
