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 [...]
Lenovo skylight smartbook is the next generation of the netbooks. The smartbook is very slim and offers at least 10 hours of battery time. Along with that it has a sim slot, so you can actually use the network on it. It is based on low powered ARM processor of 1 GHz. The unique thing [...]
NorhTech is planning to release their $199 netbook packed with 8 AA batteries intead of a single conventional battery. This would reduce the netbook weight and of course the price as AA batteries are much cheaper. Engadget shows a video in which a guy from liliputing demonstrate the netbook with AA batteries.
Of all the companies throwing netbooks in the market, Gateway seems to be the most successful. This is because the prices are comparatively less than others like HP and Dell. Gateway LT2005u is one of the many netbooks from LT series. The LT series by Gateway has 10.1″ and 11.6″ screen sizes and comes in [...]
Netbook market has boomed in the last one year and today it holds a major segment of PC sales. This large growth is invoked by the need of smaller yet power portable devices which gives longer battery times, are easier to carry around and does not compromise in giving best internet browsing experience. HP has [...]
MSI has updated their X-Slim line-up with X600 Pro ultra-thin laptop. The 15.6-inch laptop features an exciting new design with luminous coating and extended hardware capability.
