News of Smartbook News & Reviews

As mentioned by Brad from Liliputing.com there is an unoffical release of the tweaked version of Windows 7 Ultimate that is expected to run on any Netbooks.

That is correct, even the ones which have 4GB of HDD. This is of course not released by Microsoft so your build may expire. As I did not try it myself so I cannot comment on this.



Details : http://www.liliputing.com/2010/01/windo ... ernet.html ...

A fast bounce at Lenovo's Window smartbook is sufficiency to tell you that it's fundamentally a notebook - but that it's also a bit antithetic from any notebook you've ever seen. Spell the Skylight has the said 10 advance exhibit as most netbooks on the activity, it's super-slim, has an peculiar semicircular shape, and a few clear features including an enormous touchpad and an integrative USB twinkle thrust that pops up and forth from the ...

Before CES predictions where that smartbooks would flood the show floor. If you do not know yet, Qualcomm in referring to tiny laptop-like devices as smartbooks which would be using processors that are in/ from smartphone-level CPUs, but are in more cases regularise author powerful.



The two most informal CPUs seem to be the Snapdragon from Qualcomm and the Tegra/Tegra 2 from Nvidia, both using ARM-based processors.

The idea was to have a device ...

Early in the week, Freescale announced a $200 smartbook it hopes present amount to the activity via an OEM partner maybe this summer.

The tablet has a 7-inch (1024 x 600) presentation and is supercharged by the i.MX515 processor (including the ARM Cortex A8 crisp), 512MB RAM and 4-64 GB of ssd hdd.




Interestingly, there is an optional ($50) arrival keyboard that the tablet slides starboard into movement it into a quasi-netbook.

Nevertheless, the ...

Splashtop has announced that version 2.0 is now functionary. The new features includes symmetrical faster performance, compete improvement, amend 3G connectivity, a redesigned application dock as shaft the knowledge to customise the desktop.

Opposite features allow fast activity that allows you to operation even before entranceway the browser and a visible piloting of feeding story. The basic netbook to attribute Splashtop instrument be the Lenovo Ideapad S10-3t redeemable netbook.

Details : ...

Well,
Its a netbook that runs with NiMH 8 pcs (4 hours), Li+ 3S (4 hours) or Li+ 3S2P (6 hours) battery. Yes that is correct. Its an innovative Netbook that concentrates new ideas.



It however has some downsides as it comes with a 1GHz XCore86 CPU which is pretty slow in our current standards.

Windows XP was pretty slow on the test that was done with it. So our only option to use ...

Well there is a new up at Endaget that Android 2.1 SDK is available for download. So that means very soon we can expect to see some cool applications for Nexus One.

Details : http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/andr ... z-finally/

Here is the Tegra 2 based Pegatron (Asus) Neo Smartbook with 10" display (Demo Unit), it may looks like the one in the Nov 25th, 2009 thread but actually it is a different one.




NVIDIA Tegra 250 (A.K.A: Tegra 2)

The NVIDIA® Tegra™ 250 processor delivers an uncompromised Web experience, including ultra low power Flash 10.1 acceleration, and unmatched multimedia to variety of devices.


Key Features

* Dual-core ARM® Cortex -A9 MPCore™ Processor
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Marvell Announces Another Breakthrough in Chip Technology: World's First Quadruple Core Processor for ARM Instruction Set

Company Extends Leadership in Multicore Processing with Industry-Changing Technology for Mass Market, High Volume Gaming, and Consumer Applications

Santa Clara, California (January 6, 2010) — Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL), a worldwide leader in integrated silicon solutions, today announced another breakthrough in advanced chip design: the world's first "quadruple" core processor for applications utilizing the ARM instruction set. Building on a ...

From what I understand both of them has the same specification except one vital difference.

Once comes with a higher battery power than the other. The Eee PC 1005PE comes with a 63Whr or a 48Whr battery and the Eee PC 1005P comes with a battery with a lower capacity. Asus claims that a 48Whr battery will provide 11 hours of battery life.