Many manufacturers are still continuously pouring out netbooks into the market. Dell will be coming out with a mini-update on their Dell Mini 10, which will be called the Dell Mini 10v. (more…)

Remember the Sharp Mebius PC-NJ70A netbook with touchscreen touchpad from just a few days ago?

It’s now available for pre-order at Dynamism for a ridiculous price (more…)

Sharp is revolutionizing the netbook industry by introducing the first-ever netbook with a touchscreen touchpad. Will developers adapt? We’ll see.

Housed inside the Sharp Mebius PC-NJ70A netbook are Intel’s Atom N270 1.6GHz processor, 1GB of RAM (2GB maximum), (more…)

The Dell Mini 10 was apparently supposed to have a 720p screen option when it launched. But instead, it started shipping with a resolution of 1024 x 576. Not bad for the 10.1-inch screen, but who doesn’t always want to see more real estate no matter what the screen size?

Dell is now offering an alternative (more…)

Never thought that computers can actually be downsized to something as small as the P series from Sony VAIO’s line-up.

It sports an Intel 1.33Ghz processor, 8-inch high resolution screen with 1600 x 768 pixels, 2GB DDR2 RAM, and up to a 60GB HDD or 128GB SSD (that definitely puts a premium on the price of course).

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Stripped-down versions of Windows XP has been shipping out with netbooks for quite some time now. Chief executive officer of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer states that they are working on a low-end edition of Windows 7 which will be fully functional even on netbooks. Users will have the option to upgrade to a more powerful version of Windows 7, should they choose to. Ballmer has also mentioned that it still wants to team up with Yahoo! Inc. in order to compete against Google Inc. Ballmer is expecting Google to roll-out a netbook version of the Android OS to compete with Windows.

Although Microsoft has declined to give a specific release date, analysts predict that Windows 7 will be available before the year-end holiday season.

More information elsewhere:

• Microsoft Windows 7 Will Work with ‘Netbooks’ (eWeek.com)
• Microsoft Windows 7 Will Work with ‘Netbooks’ (Microsoft Software Forum Network)
• Microsoft to Squeeze Windows 7 onto Netbooks (Technologizer)