Netbook Reviews

While Lenovo seem moving away from the “Netbook” tag with their S110 mini notebook, MSI are still fully supporting the netbook scene, and have just announced a new 10.1-inch netbook based on the new Intel Atom N2800 Cedar Trail processor.

This is the very first netbook we have seen to make use of the latest Cedar Trail processor. The Itel Atom N2800 CPU is a dual core processor running at 1.86GHz giving the MSI Wind U180 some decent power. It also makes use of the new Intel GMA 3650 graphics, which are reportedly 2x faster than the previous version, all while reducing the over all power consumption, and in turn extending the battery life.

Although not yet officially announced, Lenovo have released a promo video for the Lenovo Ideapad S110, their latest 10.1-inch laptop.

It’s interesting to note that they are calling it the “Lenovo S110 mini notebook”, rather than using the “netbook” term. We feel that Lenovo might want to move away from the netbook name as many people associate them with slow machines, where as the new S110 mini-notebook makes use of the new faster and efficient Intel Atom 2600 processor on the Cedar Trail platform.

It looks like a little more information on the upcoming Acer Iconica Tab A700 is coming our way very soon. According to a Russian website Acer are going to bring the Acer Tab A700 with them to this years CES and officially announce it to the world.

We have heard about the Acer A700 for a while now, but this is the first time we have gotten some real specifications on the A700, along with a number of photos. While the Iconica Tab A200 is a 10.1-inch model powered by the NVIDIA’s 1GHz Tegra 2 processor, the A700 makes use of the more powerful Tegra 3 hardware.

If the rumors are true, it looks like Acer could be the first manufacturer to offer a larger 15-inch Ultrabook at a price lower than $1000, much lower.

Reliable source DigiTimes are reporting that after successful sales of their 11-inch and 13-inch ultrabooks they are now going to release a larger 15-inch ultrabook. If we are lucky we will see this 15-inch Acer Ultrabook announced at CES 2012 which is just week away now.

Netbooks have evolved quite someway since they were first introduced. Starting out with small low resolution screen, and seriously under powered, they have slowly become larger and more powerful.

While the most common form factor for a netbook is still 10.1-inches with a 1024 x 600 pixel resolution, many people find this size a little too cramped and limiting.

When Acer first introduced their 11.6-inch Aspire One AO722 netbook, it was an immediate hit, and it has constantly grown in popularity to become the proud owner of the number one spot.

LG have just announced an new ultra slim 13.3-inch notebook over in Korea. It’s part of the X-note range and has the slender frame and specifications for it to be classed as an ultrabook.

The thin and light LG Z330 Ultrabook is based on Intel next generation platform ultrabook specifications and and powered by the Intel Core i7 2637M or Core i5 2467M processor with 4GB of RAM.

The Acer Aspire One AO722 is currently one of the best selling netbooks on the market today. And it is easily the best budget 11.6-inch netbook by a long way.

The popular Acer Aspire One AO722 has recently been given a power boost and is now available with the more powerful AMD C-60 APU rather than the C-50.

While the C-60 has the same clock speed as the C-50 (1GHz) the C-60 offers a short Turbo core overclocking to 1.33GHz.

Black Friday is now just two short days away. Normally by this time of year the net is alive with loads of black Friday deals, and a fair few netbook deals.

But this Black Friday 2011 the netbook deals seem to be more few and far between.

We will be sure to update you as more deals are announced closer to Friday.

As of right now the best deals we have found come from trusty black Friday supporter Amazon.

With the Kindle Fire tablet, Amazon have achieved what many thought impossible. They have produced and released a high quality, powerful tablet at less than half the price of the leading tablet.

With many people not willing to fork out $500 for an Apple iPad 2 tablet, but also not wanting to by a cheap low quality tablet, Amazon have come to the rescue offering an ultra affordable tablet ($199), which is far from “cheap” in any means.

The Kindle Fire also offers a huge advantage over all other tablets currently on the market, by offering integrated access to Amazon’s vast collection of digital film, tv, music, magazine and book services.

Although the Kindle Fire keeps the “Kindle” name from their highly successful range of ebook readers, the Kindle Fire is less Kindle / ebook reader and more so pure tablet.

The Acer Aspire S3 Ultrabook is one of the most impressive notebooks / ultrabooks to come our way recently, and we have just received official word that the Asus S3 has just revived a powerboost upgrade how packing the Intel Core i7 processor.