Netbook Reviews

There has a lot of talk about the upcoming Nvidia Ion 2 over the last many months, but mostly just rumor .

DigiTimes now have something a whole lot more solid. They are reporting that an Asus Ion 2 powered Eee PC will be launched this April.

The Samsung N150 was only announced two short weeks ago along with three other Samsung models (N210, N220, NB30), but it has already gone on sale at a number of stores for just $349!

The N150 uses the latest generation Intel Atom N450 processor, along with 1GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive, and a 10.1-inch 1024 x 600 pixel resolution matte display.

The Lenovo Thinkpad X100e has gain a lot of attention very quickly since it was officially announced. The X100e is mostly a netbook if you look at it’s internal specifications, but from it’s design it looks more like a small business laptop. Lenovo are referring to the X100e as an “entry ultraportable” rather than a netbook.

Rather than using the common Atom CPU the Lenovo X100e uses the AMD Athlon Neo MV-40 processor, which offers improved performance, and brings it into the CULV realm.

The Samsung N150 was one of four new netbooks announced by Samsung for 2010 at this years CES.

When the N150 was announced in the press release alongside the other three netbooks, more attention went on the N210 and N220 with their 12 hour battery life, and the “ultra-durable” Samsung NB30. But the Samsung N150 looks like it deserves it’s fair share of the attention.

Just last month ViewSonic announced their VNB102 netbook, which has a great sleek new design. Less than a month later they are showing off their latest 10-inch netbook at CES, the ViewSonic VNB105.

Like all the new netbooks announced over the last few weeks the VNB105 features the latest Intel Atom N450 1.6GHz CPU which uses less power than the previous generation Atom.

The market has already become flooded with the latest generation netbooks featuring the new Intel Atom N450 1.6Ghz CPU. But we have yet to see any netbooks making use thew the faster Intel N470 CPU which runs at a faster clock speed of 1.88GHz, until now!

The Lenovo S10-3T looks to be the first netbook to ship with the faster Intel Atom N470 processor.

New for 2010 Samsung have released four new netbooks, all featuring the new Intel Atom N450 1.6GHz Pine Trail processor. We have already covered the Samsung N210 and N220 in a previous post, and will talk about the Samsung NB30 and N150 here.

While the N210, N220 seem to be the new top dogs with a 12 hour battery life, the Samsung N150 and NB30 still offer impressive battery life of 8.5 hours and 11 hours respectively.

Wow that didn’t take very long! The very recently announced Samsung N210 and N220 10.1-inch netbooks are now available for purchase from Amazon UK just days after they were officially announced at this years CES.

There has been some confusion over how the Samsung N220 different from the N210, and to be honest I’m still not 100% sure, but it appears to just be to do with the color options.

LG have been showing off three netbooks at this years CES. The ultra slim LG X300 has gained most of the attention over the past couple of days, but the LG X200 netbook has it’s own fair share to offer.

They were displaying the 10.1-inch LG X120 (which has been available for some time now), the LG X300 ultra slim, and the 10.1-inch LG X200 with Pine Trail CPU and HD display.

The Asus EB1012 is one of the few netops that we have been keeping a keen eye on. If you can remember back to the start of September last year, Asus announced the Asus Eee Box EB1012 nettop, calling it “High Definition Entertainment in a 1L-Sized PC”.

Ever since it’s announcement we have hard nothing of the EB1012, until today! It has shown up for order at Amazon for $387!