News in Netbooks HEADLINE NEWS: Sony unveils the new VAIO P series “lifestyle pc” At last, a Sony mini laptop is here, the Sony VAIO P Series. Although not in the form some originally expected, an adapted Via Openbook, the Sony VAIO P series has all the size and weight credentials that a netbooks should have. It weighs a minuscule 638g, that’s around two thirds the weight of the original netbook; the Asus Eee PC 701. Like the heavenly thin MacBook Air, the P-series is also under 2cm thick at 19.8mm and only “slightly larger than an office envelope.” It comes with a wave of new features including Windows Vista, 128GB of Solid State Drive storage and a high 1600x768 resolution widescreen. Other features include 3G Mobile Broadband, webcam, inbuilt GPS and more.
Dell makes Inspiron Mini 12
An extension to the somewhat successful Inspiron Mini 9 range, the Mini 12 takes netbooks to the 12 inch screen size category, and directly competing with dual-core powered notebooks. The good news is that the Mini 12 has all the keys unlike the smaller model and also is capable of running Vista.
Netbooks outsell iPhones in 2008, but won’t save the computer slump
Netbooks have outsold Apples revolutionary iPhone over the course of 2008, an estimated 5.7 million netbooks over 4.7 million iPhones. But despite its massive sales, it won’t stop computer sales overall taking a dip in the current economic climate.
$128 netbook from Elonex hits the shelves in Next
Elonex have brought out a $128 netbook being sold in Next. We're yet to investigate...