Review: Sony Vaio VGN-SZ71WN/C Subnotebook

Sony’s Vaio VGN-SZ71WN/C Subnotebook is made for the demanding Business user. With Sony’s Vaio line-up 2008 and brand new Penryn processors, the performance of this ultra portable notebook is still really good. The same goes for case, display and workmanship of the Sony Vaio VGN SZ71 WN/C. Well, with a price tag of more than [...]

Notebook Sales: Netbooks To Boost Sales Worldwide

With more and more brands like Acer, Dell and HP entering the market for low-cost small notebooks like the Asus’ Eee PC, the market specialists from Topology Research raised forecasts for the worldwide laptop market from 120 to 128 million units. That is around 7 percent more than expected. So Topology Research sees a plus [...]

Centrino Atom Platform: PC Vendors Pessimistic

Digitimes reports, that although Intel is aggressively pushing Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) and its Centrino Atom platform, PC vendors still feel pessimistic about the market’s future in general. Digitimes calls an increasing demand for 7- to 10-inch netbooks, a declining worldwide economy and Nvidia’s ARM11-based Tegra as negative factors toward MIDs. Intel declined the opportunity [...]

Asus confirms Eee PC 904 HD

Verifies to PC Retail existence of device and reveals launch and pricing details; cheapest model in new range. PC Retail can exclusively confirm that Asus is to launch a new Eee PC device into the UK, “within a matter of weeks”, adding that it would be the cheapest of the new models available.
The device, the [...]

MSI Wind U100: Available In Germany Early August

Yesterday MSI Germany announced the Wind U100 with a height of 19 mm and only 940 grams. The MSI Wind comes with an ultraportable design but with full functionality: Equipped with the Intel 945GMS + ICH7M chipset, with a 1.6 GHz Intel Atom processor, 1 GB DDR2 667 RAM and a 80GB hard drive, the [...]

EEE PC 904 and 905: New Tiny Screen And Bigger Keyboards

Sources of DigiTimes say that Asus is working on a couple of new Eee PCs: The 904 and 905. The models take the 8.9″ screen from the 900 and 901 and mash it up with the bigger keyboard on the Eee 1000, which doesn’t seem like a very good idea to us because the mini-notebook [...]

MSI Wind: Cheapest OSX Notebook

MSI Wind: Cheapest OSX Laptop. One geek at InsanelyMac.com has managed to install Leopard OSX on MSI’s Wind UMPC. Though the small factor subnotebook isn’t officially available yet, an user called ‘jav’ claims to have Bluetooth, sound and Ethernet working without problems out the box. Wireless LAN and a proper screen resolution still missing.
“Well, here [...]

EeePC Update: Computex Pics

Taipei (Taiwan) – Earlier today we brought you news of the updated Asus EeePC line with larger screes and WiMax connectivity. Now here are several snapshots of the EeePC 901 and 1000H to round out the coverage.as you’ll see in the pictures, some specs (like the battery) are in flux.
The 10-inch screen EeePC 1000H [...]