I apologise for my possibly over-extended coverage of the Samsung NC10 battery life. This will be the last post on the matter I promise. As we’ve seen in previous Laptop Magazine tests and my brief hands-on last Saturday, the NC10 turns in some impressive battery drain figures. Laptop Magazine have taken the testing a step further and pushed the NC10 to the absolute limit by dropping in an SSD and disabling the BT radio on their web browsing tests. The result…nearly 8 hours of surfing at minimum brightness. While this […]

The Samsung NC10 [Portal page] which is being regarded as one of the best netbooks you can buy, is finally available in the US from Buy.com in white or blue for $499. The netbook has been available in other areas for the world for a short period of time, but is just now coming to the US, just in time for the holidays! For anyone considering this device, be sure to check out the very favorable review by LAPTOP. [Liliputing]

This one is a bit late, but the Mini 1000 [Portal page] has been (pretty obviously) piquing my interest lately, and jkOnTheRun got a really early hands on with the Mini 1000 that is very comprehensive. If you have a few minutes, head over to their site to check out a post that is full of good images, impressions, and comparisons to the original Mini-Note 2133.

HP’s new Mini 1000 [Portal page] is currently the third most popular device here in the Portal, and for all of you out there who are interested in it, take a look at these two images that compare HP’s first netbook, the 2133 [Portal Page], with their new Mini 1000:   You can see in the image above that the Mini 1000 makes more efficient use of the lid, employing a 10" screen in the same space where the 2133 fit an 8.9" screen. The keyboard on both devices looks […]

Have a look at this quick and clean unboxing of the Mini 1000 [Portal page] from Notebooks.com. The short video shows a simple box and packaging that seems nice enough (after all it is just packaging…). I’m was very impressed when I saw the unit itself out of the box toward the end of the video. The keyboard looks gorgeous and the screen seems to take advantage of the space given to it.   [Liliputing]

Here is the first touchscreen friendly game that I would like to highlight. It is called Factory Balls and it is a simple flash based browser game. It is a puzzle game which involves taking balls from your inventory and modifying them to match the ball painted on the box. Once your ball matches the ball on the box, the ball will fall into the box and you will move on to the next puzzle. The game is simple at first as you learn how to use tools to modify […]

I’d like to take a moment to introduce a series of posts that I will be doing over the coming months. First let me say that I am an avid gamer. Gaming has been a hobby of mine since I was a young lad and it continues to be a fulfilling activity for me. I have experience across several different gaming platforms but the Xbox 360 consumes the majority of my gaming time at this point. Before I get to off-topic, allow me to explain this series of related posts […]

Asus was the first to offer a quality notebook down in the sub-$300 range and it looks like Dell is following their example. Apparently a leaked advertisement shows that Dell will be offering the Inspiron Mini 9 [Portal page] netbook for just $299 on Black Friday. The most likely thing that you will find is the lowest end model which is configured with an 8GB SSD, 512MB of RAM, and Ubuntu as the OS (check the Portal page for additional specs). Buying a model that is configured with those specs […]