Netbook Reviews

This Friday is Black Friday, and we already have a number of great black Friday netbook deals for you!

Even though Black Friday 2009 is on November 27th the vast majority of retailers have already got their deals out of the door.

Netbooks seem to be a very popular Black Friday item, so you can expect some great deals this year.

Just last week we saw the first netbook using Intel’s upcoming Pineview chipset / processor, the Lenovo S10-3 (FL5-B3) pass though the FCC.

It now looks like there are now two Pineview netbooks planned. The second being Fujitsu MH380 / M380 LifeBook, which is a 10.1-inch netbook from the Fujitsu’s M Series.

Netbooks today are still running on the current Intel Atom CPU generation, and have yet to move on to the new Pine Trail platform and Pineview processors.

But even before netbooks have had time to use the new Pine Trail generation, details of the next generation of the 2011 Atom CPU have emerged.

There has been a lot of speculation about the upcoming Lenovo ThinkPad X100e for a few weeks now, but now a lot more details have become available.

The Lenovo want the X100e to be refereed to as an “entry ultraportable” and not as a netbook. While is a has netbook like size of 11.6-inches and a “netbook-like price point” it’s internal hardware are less netbook like.

We have known about the Asus Eee PC 1201N netbook since late August, and it has even shown up for pre-order in a number of countries including the US. But until today the Asus 1201N hasn’t been officially announced by Asus, and only a few photos have been floating around the net.

On the same day that Asus have officially recognized the Asus 1201N it has been given a quick hands on by the team over at laptopmag.

The Asus UL20A is the smallest model from the new Asus UL series. The UL20A sits right in the middle ground between netbooks and standard notebooks, and is technically called a “thin and light” notebook.

As the Asus UL20A is the smallest model with a 12.1-inch LCD (1366 x 768), it still fits in the netbook size category, albeit on the larger side.

The number of 11.6-inch tablet convertible notebooks seem to be increasing almost daily. The Acer 1820PT model has shown up for pre-order in both Australia and Italy, and now has an official product page over at Acer US.

The Acer Aspire Timeline 1820PT is one of a number of convertible tablet PCs such as the Acer 1420P, 1820P, and 1820PTZ.

The very impressive UL30 has been taken one step further with the Asus UL30VT notebook, which adds discrete switchable graphics, offering the best of both worlds with long battery life and high performance graphics.

The 13.3-inch Asus UL30VT isn’t a netbook, but a “thin and light” notebook, which sits between netbooks and larger notebooks.

We have been hearing about the new Intel Pineview platform for some time now, and the most recent nugget of news we heard was that Intel are now fast tracking the platform.

This appears to be true, as a new Pineview powered netbook has been spotted over at the FCC. The Lenovo S10-3 netbook or Lenovo FL5-B3 as it’s currently known has been revealed by the FFC documents as featuring the new Pineview Intel Atom N450 processor.

The MSI L2100 netbook recently appeared on the MSI product pages, and was quickly followed up by showing up for order.

Unlike some other models which are announced in great fan fair, and having to wait many months for them to surface, the MSI Wind L2100 has had a much quieter launch.