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ASUS Eee PC 1008HA Seashell @ InsideHW | Posted on: 30/11/2009 @ 1:11

At first sight, ASUS Eee PC 1008HA looks like any other netbook made in piano finish, where shiny black plastics dominates its exterior. In case you take this netbook outdors and take a good look at its surface under intensive sunlight, you will notice small details on its surface. Small dots (in our case blue dots) can be visible, and those are making effects similar to sand shimmering under the ...

Choiix Air-Through Stash (C-HL04) Notebook Cooling Pad Review | Posted on: 25/11/2009 @ 4:00

Sun Microsystems To Relicense Its X.Org Code | Posted on: 25/11/2009 @ 3:00

Alan Coopersmith on behalf of Sun Microsystems has announced this afternoon that they will be relicensing all of their past and present X server work under the canonical form of the X.Org license in its latest form. This is being done to reduce the number of MIT license variants within the X Server...

Chromium OS, Moblin, Ubuntu Netbook Remix Benchmarks | Posted on: 23/11/2009 @ 17:20

Intel released Moblin 2.1 earlier this month, Canonical released Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.10 late last month, and various other vendors have offered up their fall distribution refreshes too. Oh yeah, and Google just released the Chromium OS source code a few days ago! With all of the netbook-focused distribution updates, we found it time to run an onslaught of new benchmarks, comparing some of the ...

Multi-Touch Coming to UK Dell Studio 17 Laptops Before the End of the Year | Posted on: 23/11/2009 @ 13:20

Dell added the option of a multi-touch display to the Studio 17 laptop a few days ago for customers in the USA. Now according to Crave UK, Dell will make this option available to UK customers before the end of the year. Multi-touch is a form of touch screen where the screen can sense multiple finger touches at the same time. This allows for gestures involving two or more fingers like pinch and ...

HP Mini 311: Netbooks get ION | Posted on: 22/11/2009 @ 9:40

The HP Mini 311 is one of the first netbooks to ship with NVIDIA's ION platform. The question everyone's asking is: does ION improve the netbook experience? The answer is yes, but there are other questions we still need to address....

Fedora 13 May Support Btrfs System Rollbacks | Posted on: 20/11/2009 @ 14:20

Fedora 12 was just released this week, but features for Fedora 13 have been in planning long before this release made it out the door. In fact, it was last month that we began talking about features for Fedora 13...

Study Finds Asus and Toshiba Make Most Reliable Laptops | Posted on: 18/11/2009 @ 8:50

When we decide to ignore the global recession by buying a brand new laptop, we can compare memory, screen size and battery life, but we can’t usually compare lifetime reliability. Until now. Thanks to a recent survey comparing three year malfunction rates by manufacturers, smaller laptop companies like Asus, Toshiba and Sony lead the way in [...]Study Finds Asus and Toshiba Make Most ...

Review: Asus Disney Netbook | Posted on: 13/11/2009 @ 11:10

With the original Eee PC seemingly ideal for kids, it was only a matter of time before we saw more netbooks aimed specifically at children. The Asus Disney Netbook is a brightly coloured product – available in either Princess Pink or Magic Blue – with prominent Disney branding. The basic design of this machine is very similar to Asus' existing Eee PC 1008HA Seashell netbook – ...

Testing Out Linux File-Systems On A USB Flash Drive | Posted on: 11/11/2009 @ 18:00

In past articles we have delivered plenty of file-system benchmarks from testing out EXT4 to Btrfs to NILFS2. We have also delivered benchmarks from traditional hard drives to solid-state drives. One area though where we have not published any file-system benchmarks is for USB flash drives. Most users end up staying with the default FAT32 file-system for flash drives, but are there any ...

Mesa Comes To Android-based x86 Netbooks | Posted on: 10/11/2009 @ 14:10

If you pay attention to the Mesa3D development mailing list at all you will have noticed quite a number of messages lately from Chia-I Wu, who has been pushing a good number of patches lately. Largely his work has pertained to OpenGL ES support for mobile devices, but his intentions are now known...

Khronos Launches Mobile Windowing System API | Posted on: 09/11/2009 @ 21:40

In the past year the Khronos Group unveiled the OpenCL 1.0 specification, the launch of OpenGL 3.1 / GLSL 1.40, OpenSL ES 1.0 as a new standardized audio API, and then most recently was the OpenGL 3.2 update. Today though the Khronos Group is pushing forward another standardized API that they hope to reach industry acceptance on and that is for windowing systems...

Review: Genelec 6010A/5040A 5.1 System | Posted on: 09/11/2009 @ 10:30

Manufacturer Genelec has roots as deep as time in the pro-audio market, predominantly with huge active studio monitors of awesome perfection for diction and clarity. Yet it has been making quiet forays into home cinema/small studio-friendly areas for some years now – and this array is its smallest yet. Our test system uses the dinkiest satellite available, the 6010A and the stumpy 5040A ...

Lenovo IdeaPad U350 @ InsideHW | Posted on: 06/11/2009 @ 0:24

To our great satisfaction, amount of thin, light and accessible laptops present on the market is constantly enlarging. This time we present you Lenovo IdeaPad U350 - very thin, 13.1-inch display, 1.65kg weight, under 450€ laptop. With these features and really nice price tag, we predict that it will win the hearts and minds of many users out there…

Giveaway: Win a Lynnfield Core i7 System | Posted on: 04/11/2009 @ 16:10

That's right, just in time for the holidays we've partnered up with Intel to give away a complete Lynnfield Core i7 System....

ASUS Eee PC 1101HA Seashell 11.6-inch Netbook | Posted on: 04/11/2009 @ 12:20

MSI Wind Top AE2010-02SUS AIO Desktop System | Posted on: 03/11/2009 @ 18:33

Desktop computers are making a resurgence, and have exploited the compact nature of newer technology to provide the best of both worlds. Netbooks are the popular item for travelers, but they don\'t get the job done for full time workers and students. Notebooks are nice, and meet halfway, but have their own limits too. Behold the nettop. It\'s a compact desktop computer with a notebook profile. In ...

Chosing the right fundament: which hypervisor do you evaluate? | Posted on: 03/11/2009 @ 16:01

First of all, we were pretty excited to see so much comments and votes (5000!) on our latest IT poll. It is good to see that professional IT is so much alive at Anandtech.com. So yes, we should have updated this blog quicker, to keep the momentum going. The reason why this update comes rather late is -once again - that we are working on the much delayed hypervisor...

MSI's CR610 AMD Tigris notebook benchmarked. | Posted on: 03/11/2009 @ 7:50

Phenom-based CPU power and updated graphics. Any good? We tell you.

ASUS G51VX-A1 15.6-inch Gaming Notebook | Posted on: 02/11/2009 @ 13:00

Acer Aspire 7738 @ InsideHW | Posted on: 02/11/2009 @ 0:11

Netbooks are small and cute, but what happens when you really need something bigger and more powerful? No problemo! We present you Acer Aspire 7738G – laptop with great multimedia features that can easily replace your home desktop configuration. If laptop from the pictures bring some déjà vu feelings, it absolutely normal reaction, since we already reviewed very similar model 8730G ...