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November 1, 2021 | 14:00

Inscryption Review

Welcome challenger. Why not sit down, and play a little game?

October 27, 2021 | 12:05

SilentiumPC Regnum RG6V TG Case Review

Budget in price, mainstream in aspiration.

October 21, 2021 | 09:43

Nvidia Optimus: More Than Meets The Eye

Nvidia's new Optimus technology is primed to transform switchable graphics in laptops, netbooks and the second generation Ion platform. Trust us, for your next laptop upgrade this is looking like a must have technology.

February 9, 2010 | 14:05

Apple creates own CPU to power iPad

Likely similar in design to Nvidia's Tegra 2, with ARM Cortex-A9 core and OpenGL ES graphics.

January 28, 2010 | 11:19

Broadcom announces Crystal HD chip

Broadcom has taken the wraps off its single-chip Crystal HD media accelerator for netbooks, promising full 1080p playback and hardware Flash acceleration in a low-power chip.

December 24, 2009 | 09:02

Bit-tech on the BBC

December 11, 2009 | 11:05

Mini 9 mod brings dual touchscreens

An innovative mod for the Dell Mini 9 brings dual touch-screen displays to the device - with the ultimate aim to create a fully portable dual-display tablet.

December 10, 2009 | 14:50

Chromium OS compatibility list released

A list of compatible hardware has been released for Chromium OS, the open-source version of Google's cloud-based Chrome OS.

December 1, 2009 | 10:54

Asus announces AMD-based netbook

Asus has announced the Eee PC 1201T, which ditches Intel's Atom in favour of rival AMD's dual-core Congo MV40 processor - but can it even be classed as a netbook?

November 30, 2009 | 11:04

Google's Chrome OS gets official launch

Google's netbook-oriented operating system, Chrome OS, has enjoyed an official launch event - and while it won't be shipping until next year, the code is already available.

November 20, 2009 | 10:14

Eee Keyboard delayed

Asus has announced that the Eee Keyboard will now not ship until early next year - although it's using the delay to upgrade the 5" resistive touchscreen to a capacitive model.

November 6, 2009 | 14:09

Apple Atom support lives again

Support for low-power Atom processors - at the heart of many a hackintosh - appears to be back in the latest developer build of Mac OS X 10.6.2 - build 10C525.

November 5, 2009 | 10:09

VIA announces new Nano chip

VIA has announced a new Nano range - the Nano 3000 series - which it hopes will challenge Intel's dominance of the netbook market, offering improved performance over the Atom.

November 4, 2009 | 11:30

Apple Tablet: unannounced but selling well

Apple's still-unconfirmed tablet appears to be selling well despite absolutely no information leaving the company.

September 24, 2009 | 10:05

Acer announces Ferrari netbook

Acer is launching a Windows 7-based netbook under the Ferrari brand, and the specifications are anything but pedestrian with an AMD CPU and XGP support.

September 15, 2009 | 14:04

Dell teases ultra-slim Air-alike

Dell has revealed images of its next Adamo laptop - the Adamo XPS - and it's looking neat, with a thickness that puts Apple's MacBook Air to shame.

September 10, 2009 | 12:56

Sharp to launch ultra-mini netbook

Sharp is set to launch a device which it believes sits between smartphones and netbooks - a 5" touchscreen unit running Ubuntu 9.04.

August 28, 2009 | 12:48

Rumour: Nokia to launch ARM-based netbook

Industry sources claim that Nokia is looking to release a netbook based around the ARM processor family.

August 27, 2009 | 09:59

Win 7: netbook battery killer?

A series of benchmark tests carried out on netbooks running Windows XP and Windows 7 has revealed a worrying drop in battery life under Microsoft's latest OS.

August 26, 2009 | 10:05

Nokia unveils Booklet 3G netbook

Finnish mobile giant Nokia has offered up a taster of its first entry into the netbook market - a rather snazzy 10" model featuring 3G connectivity and a HDMI output.

August 25, 2009 | 13:05

Nvidia sneaks out Ion LE

Nvidia has quietly snuck its second Ion chipset out of the door, but the DirectX 9-only part isn't the high-performance Ion 2 for which we've been waiting.

August 5, 2009 | 11:03

Intel: Pine Trail is on track for 2009

Responding to rumours that Pine Trail - the next iteration of the popular Atom processor range - would be delayed until 2010, Intel has stated that the chip is well on track for a 2009 release.

July 31, 2009 | 11:07

Acer to launch dual-boot Android netbook

Despite initial scepticism as to its suitability, Acer is planning an August launch for a netbook which dual-boots Google's Android platform with Windows XP.

July 14, 2009 | 14:57

Google announces Chrome OS

Google has just announced that it will be developing an operating system of it's own, scheduled for use on netbooks by 2010.

July 8, 2009 | 11:10

Ion 2 to feature double the shaders

The next generation revision of Nvidia's Ion platform is likely to double the shaders from 16 to 32 - or higher - offering far greater graphics performance for netbooks.

July 2, 2009 | 12:15