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Netbooks, being one of the best selling gadget last year and predicted to have a significant growth this year will make many PC vendors keep their watch in this products. And for some netbook users, the existence of Google Chrome OS is like a fuel that stimulate their interest to watch the development in netbook technology.

In the late January, Acer made their statement about producing their own Chrome OS netbook this year. Now, Samsung, as one of the brands that own one of the best buy laptop last year recently announce to release their Samsung Chrome OS netbook too this year. The spesification of this netbook that was leaked until now were a 10.1 screen chrome netbook with the availability of 2GB memory, 3G and WiFi connectivity, and hold a storage capacity of 64GB at a minimum.

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HP Mini 5102 is the new intel Atom N450 netbook that designed to be an all-around mobile PC. To make up for that, HP 5102 is powered by a single core 1.66GHz atom processor, Mobile Intel NM10 chipset  and Intel GMA 3150 graphic processor. The Mini 5102’s packages also includes a 1GB 800MHz DDR2 Memory, 160 GB harddrive, and Windows 7 Starter Edition.

HP 5102’s exterior design were pretty good, its body is made of magnesium alloy and aluminium, giving a sturdy feel to it, a really good choice for netbook users who hates netbook’s plastic body. 5102 size were pretty proportional too, Read the rest of this entry »

If you’re one of the gadget lover that waited word about HP Android Netbook, then this is the news for you. HP have released their announcement about Compaq Airlife 100, a 10.1 inch android OS netbook, fully loaded with android multitasking and touch interface. Pretty interesting don’t you think? Unfortunately, this Compaq Android netbook will be sell exclusively for Telefonica.

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Eee PC netbook is one of the brands we used to meet in a mobile netters backpack. The more than 6 hour battery life is very tempting and practical (some even said their netbook – not eee pc though- can be used up to 8 hours), but sometimes, we have to admit that their 10.1 inch screen and RAM memory limitation can be a blunder sometime. But with Asus Eee PC 1201N, those limit can be lifted off from your favorite netbook.

Eee PC 1201N is a netbook for those who pursue both, portability and processing power to support multimedia needs of netbook user. Asus 1201N is powered by Intel Atom 330 dual core processor combined with NVidia ION graphics processor to cope with more resource consuming usage of this Eee PC netbook. Read the rest of this entry »

Not so long ago, we’ve cover the news about iPad Price and Specs in this gadget blog. Many people were excited to welcome this Apple tablet pc and expect some good features from iPad. However, iPad is not an all perfect tablet gadget, it has some blunder compared to what people would think exist in it. And now, let’s hear what people consider as a weakness in iPad.

No Multitasking in iPad
With iPad’s 9.7 inch touch screen and its price, people might wanting a feature that compete with what netbook have, especially in the multitasking capability area. And yeah, we know that iPad was not intended to be a netbook. However, without this multitasking ability, it was such a disapointing weakness that an iPad user have to face. iPad was known to be not so ‘agile’ too when we move from one application to another. Read the rest of this entry »