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Windows 7 Ferrari netbook ships with 4 F1 valves

Posted Thursday, October 22, 2009 11:09 PM by stevecla01
I subscribe to Ferrari.com just so I know what I’ll need to be buying on the day I win the lottery. Today they dropped me an email about this limited edition Ferrari Acer netbook running Windows 7 – it comes with 4 F1 engine valves too. Very handy :) Read More...
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Installing Windows 7 on a netbook just got simple - Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool

Posted Thursday, October 22, 2009 8:03 PM by stevecla01
Released today in conjunction with Windows 7 is the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool .   From Microsoft Store… Overview When you purchase Windows 7 from Microsoft Store, you have the option to download an ISO file or compressed files. The Windows Read More...
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Nokia’s net-Booklet

Posted Monday, August 24, 2009 3:43 PM by stevecla01
Well this was something of a surprise – the kind of thing I’d expected Nokia to announce with Microsoft during the joint  press conference a few weeks back. A Nokia netbook sorry, Booklet, running Windows. The most interesting aspects for me are Read More...
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Will 1280x800 Get Me Back In the Netbook Market?

Posted Monday, May 25, 2009 10:39 PM by stevecla01
  Maybe. Lenovo makes delicious looking Netbooks and with the announcement that the new IdeaPad S12 has the Nvidia Ion chipset I may be back in the market. I sold my Samsung NC10 because the screen resolution was too low for what I needed on a daily Read More...
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Of Netbooks and Clouds

Posted Tuesday, March 24, 2009 2:03 AM by stevecla01
Gosh, the new WIRED is already out and I didn’t get to write this post quick enough – I thought the article in last months magazine, The Netbook Effect: How Cheap Little Laptops Hit the Big Time , was fascinating. Having rebuilt my laptop (netbook and Read More...
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Lenovo’s Tiny Touchscreen Netbook

Posted Monday, March 16, 2009 11:21 PM by stevecla01
A nice find by Electronista is the Lenovo Yoga notebook which looks like a worthy competitor to the Sony Vaio P-Series but it seems it’s merely an experiment. Shame as it looks tiny but very cool encased in leather and with a reversible screen that makes Read More...
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Installing Windows 7 on a Netbook

Posted Sunday, January 25, 2009 3:55 PM by stevecla01
  Very hand for all you Netbook kids out there this video shows you how you can install Win7 on machines without a DVD Drive . I’ve used it on my NC10 and it’s fast and efficient. Basically you make a USB stick bootable and put the bits on there. Read More...
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Samsung NC10 questions

Posted Tuesday, January 13, 2009 12:10 PM by stevecla01
I’m totally baffled this morning – I read an email in my blurry eyed state from someone asking me about LAN drivers for the Samsung NC10 running Windows 7. Having checked high and low, I can’t find that email so I may well have dreamt it (sad eh)…but Read More...
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Dell Netbook

Posted Wednesday, December 17, 2008 3:34 PM by stevecla01
Well if I hadn’t recently bought my Samsung NC10 Netbook this Dell Inspiron Mini 9 would be very tempting at only £224 – and you can configure it with a solid state drive, though only 16GB. Anyone got one? Comparisons with the Samsung? Read More...
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Live Mesh: The Killer App for Netbooks

Posted Tuesday, December 16, 2008 4:58 AM by stevecla01
  This weekend I was reading 7 Tools To Make Your WinXP Netbook Shine on GigaOm and commented there that they missed a trick IMHO by not including Live Mesh . Okay so Live Mesh as a service is still in beta but in my experience it’s rock solid and Read More...
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Also Suitable For Netbooks

Posted Monday, November 17, 2008 5:04 PM by stevecla01
The Netbook phenomenon is well underway and this is a sticker you may see more frequently because of it. I’m no fan of the ridiculous amount of stickers you get on laptops these days (Mac’s aside) but this one makes some sense. Many netbooks don’t have Read More...
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Netbooks – the new LCD TV’s this Christmas?

Posted Sunday, October 05, 2008 5:21 PM by stevecla01
Netbooks have had a phenomenal amount of coverage over the last 6 months with the emergence of this new category being catalyzed by the Asus Eee PC. Hardly a day goes by without a new unit being announced or rumored. The category is growing quickly and Read More...
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