Netbook Reviews

ASUS TF300T | 3rd Generation Transformer

Matt — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:46:09 +0000

It looks like the next generation Asus Transformer has just leaked. A Taiwanese websites, NCCC, have a number of very convincing photos of a model named the “TF300T”, bearing the Asus logo and distinctive design. A QuieTek certification document revealed its name, so it is hard to doubt. And considering the model name for the [...]

ASUS B23E 12.5-Inch Business Notebook

Matt — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:39:24 +0000

Asus was very busy at this years CES announcing a few new netbooks, and a whole lot of ultrabooks / laptops. But they did hold one back. The Asus B23E is a 12.5-inch notebook which is aimed towards business users. While it’s not an ultrabook by true classification, it does has a Magnesium-Aluminum Alloy case [...]

Asus 2012 Netbooks Announced: 1025C / CE,1225B and X101CH

Matt — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:46:17 +0000

Asus has been a longtime supporter of Netbook, and while other companies are pulling away from them and investing their time on hopes in the new Ultrabook market, Asus are staying true to their netbook line and have just announced three new netbooks at CES 2012 for 2012. I feel that just as netbooks are [...]

Asus 1225B – 11.6-inch Announced

Matt — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:41:55 +0000

Asus have just announced the brand new Asus Eee PC 1225B 11.6-inch netbook to the market. We can already tell a lot just from the name, the bump in digits indicate that it’s an updated version of the 1215, and the B at the end tells us that it makes use of AMD hardware. The [...]

Acer A200 Tablet Available January 15th

Matt — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:19:17 +0000

Acer have just pushed out a press release ahead of CES 2012, announcing that their Tegra 2 tablet computer, the Acer Iconia Tab A200 will go on sale in the U.S from January 15th from the very attractive price of $329. The 10-inch Acer Tab A200 has a 1280 x 800 pixel display and is [...]

MSI U180 10.1-Inch Netbook

Matt — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:02:28 +0000

While Lenovo seem moving away from the “Netbook” tag with their S110 mini notebook, MSI are still fully supporting the netbook scene, and have just announced a new 10.1-inch netbook based on the new Intel Atom N2800 Cedar Trail processor. This is the very first netbook we have seen to make use of the latest [...]

Lenovo S110 Mini Notebook

Matt — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:03:02 +0000

Although not yet officially announced, Lenovo have released a promo video for the Lenovo Ideapad S110, their latest 10.1-inch laptop. It’s interesting to note that they are calling it the “Lenovo S110 mini notebook”, rather than using the “netbook” term. We feel that Lenovo might want to move away from the netbook name as many [...]

Acer Iconica Tab A700 At CES 2012

Matt — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:36:14 +0000

It looks like a little more information on the upcoming Acer Iconica Tab A700 is coming our way very soon. According to a Russian website Acer are going to bring the Acer Tab A700 with them to this years CES and officially announce it to the world. We have heard about the Acer A700 for [...]

Acer To Offer 15-Inch Ultrabook For less then $1000

Matt — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 01:21:33 +0000

If the rumors are true, it looks like Acer could be the first manufacturer to offer a larger 15-inch Ultrabook at a price lower than $1000, much lower. Reliable source DigiTimes are reporting that after successful sales of their 11-inch and 13-inch ultrabooks they are now going to release a larger 15-inch ultrabook. If we [...]

Acer Aspire One AO722 Review: Best 11.6-Inch Netbook

Matt — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:55:47 +0000

Netbooks have evolved quite someway since they were first introduced. Starting out with small low resolution screen, and seriously under powered, they have slowly become larger and more powerful. While the most common form factor for a netbook is still 10.1-inches with a 1024 x 600 pixel resolution, many people find this size a little [...]

LG Z330 Ultrabook Announced

Matt — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 22:18:05 +0000

LG have just announced an new ultra slim 13.3-inch notebook over in Korea. It’s part of the X-note range and has the slender frame and specifications for it to be classed as an ultrabook. The thin and light LG Z330 Ultrabook is based on Intel next generation platform ultrabook specifications and and powered by the [...]

AMD C-60 Benchmark (Acer AO722)

Matt — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:36:24 +0000

The Acer Aspire One AO722 is currently one of the best selling netbooks on the market today. And it is easily the best budget 11.6-inch netbook by a long way. The popular Acer Aspire One AO722 has recently been given a power boost and is now available with the more powerful AMD C-60 APU rather [...]

Black Friday 2011 Netbook Deals

Matt — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 07:58:46 +0000

Black Friday is now just two short days away. Normally by this time of year the net is alive with loads of black Friday deals, and a fair few netbook deals. But this Black Friday 2011 the netbook deals seem to be more few and far between. We will be sure to update you as [...]

Amazon Kindle Fire Review

Matt — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 07:44:34 +0000

With the Kindle Fire tablet, Amazon have achieved what many thought impossible. They have produced and released a high quality, powerful tablet at less than half the price of the leading tablet. With many people not willing to fork out $500 for an Apple iPad 2 tablet, but also not wanting to by a cheap [...]

Acer Aspire S3 with Core i7 CPU Available

Matt — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:33:43 +0000

The Acer Aspire S3 Ultrabook is one of the most impressive notebooks / ultrabooks to come our way recently, and we have just received official word that the Asus S3 has just revived a powerboost upgrade how packing the Intel Core i7 processor. Acer just put out official word of the Acer Aspire S3 with [...]