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Analyst: Apple will launch netbook competitor in response to slowdown

November 26, 2008 — 2:06am ET | By Paul Mah
Despite the launch of a new line of MacBooks just last month, the current economic climate will force Apple to roll out a lower-priced laptop to compete with netbook offerings currently flooding the... Read more...

Netbooks eat into Microsoft's revenues

November 12, 2008 — 8:09am ET | By Paul Mah
Citigroup Global Markets analyst Brent Thill thinks that the drop in first-quarter earnings and revenues at Microsoft is related to the success of netbooks, or low-end laptops. In a report explicitly... Read more...

HP gets serious about netbooks, launches three new versions

October 29, 2008 — 4:47am ET | By Paul Mah
Hewlett-Packard has decided to get serious about their netbook operation after its brief experiment with the Mini-Note 2133 netbook. Sporting a C7 processor from Via, HP claimed that the product was... Read more...

Netbooks could prove an opportunity for Linux

October 15, 2008 — 10:01am ET
Novell's chief technology and strategy officer for Linux thinks that the popularity of netbooks could prove an opportunity for the Linux operating system. This is because low-cost netbooks will... Read more...

Netbook prices set to fall

August 27, 2008 — 2:03am ET | By Paul Mah
Acer has slashed the prices of its Aspire netbook from $399 to $349. In addition, its Linpus Linux Lite will also see its price drop from $379 to $329. Netbooks, a new category of affordable,... Read more...

Popularity of smaller PCs a cause of worry for industry

July 23, 2008 — 5:47am ET | By Paul Mah
The increasing success of netbooks - which comes with little on-board memory and comparatively slow processors, is apparently starting to worry industry players. Besides posing an... Read more...

Microsoft to extend Windows XP for nettops as well

June 4, 2008 — 2:48am ET | By Paul Mah

Microsoft will extend the availability of its die-hard Windows XP operating system to manufacturers of ultra low-cost PCs, aka nettops. Not surprisingly, Microsoft's corporate vice president of

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SanDisk launches new SSDs for ultra low-cost PCs

June 4, 2008 — 2:47am ET | By Paul Mah

The number 1 supplier of flash memory storage products is targeting ultra low-cost personal computers as well as business laptops in order to drive demand for its solid state drives (SSD). The

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Intel shows off new Atom processors

June 4, 2008 — 2:42am ET | By Paul Mah

Intel has announced the availability of two Atom processors at the Computex 2008 conference in Taiwan this week. The Atom N270 processor is targeted at low-cost notebooks while the Atom 230 is

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