First, Steve Jobs and Netbooks Steve Jobs has been pretty dismissive of Netbooks, even though they went from under 1 million netbooks sold in 2007 to over 12 million sold in 2008. Oct 21st, 2008 Steve Jobs said – “Not a lot of them getting sold,”. He also called the iPhone Apple’s entrance in the [...]
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Digital Gadgets manufacture Sylvania computers and they’ve jumped into the netbook market with their G range of netbooks. In this post we’ll focus on the 8.9″ Meso netbook and the 10″ Magni Elite Slate netbook as the 7″ was/is rather unimpressive. Sylvania Magni Elite 10″ G netbook The 10″ Magni Elite G Netbook from Sylvania [...]
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The more netbooks I rate and review, the more I’m beginning to see a standard netbook configuration emerge. This is what it looks like – Operating system: Windows XP Home. In 6-9 months this will be replaced by Windows 7. However, until then I don’t see this changing at all. Screen Size: 10″. 10 inches, [...]
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Here are the important details on Dell’s 10 inch Mini 10 – Priced at $399 (QVC has it for $559 although they include Corel Draw, a year’s McAfee, and a 4GB SD Card). Dell gets the pricing right (hopefully) by keeping below the $400 magic threshold. Note: Have to confirm this after final release, and [...]
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I find two things rather amusing – Psion trying to sue netbook makers because they have a trademark on the term ‘netbook’. People who keep trying to use new terms like ‘mini note’, ‘mini’, and ‘mini note book’. The ‘Netbook’ trademark isn’t going to work We are at the point where the terms ‘netbook’ and [...]
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