http://www.popbatteries.com Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:32:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Netbooks with 9 inch displays were all the rage for a hot second in 2008. But now they’ve largely passed out of fashion as PC makers pump out larger models with 10 inch displays and nearly full sized keyboards. But apparently the folks at Netsee didn’t get the memo, because ... http://www.popbatteries.com/2010/03/09/netsee-launches-8-9%e2%80%b3-unc-890-netbook-in-korea/ It seems like everybody and their kid brother has a new nettop with next-generation NVIDIA ION graphics to show these days. So how do you set your super-slim and tiny desktop PC apart from the crowd? Simple. You slap a unicorn logo on the side. At least that’s what Sparkle ... http://www.popbatteries.com/2010/03/09/sparkle%e2%80%99s-new-nettop-will-have-next-gen-ion-graphics/ It looks like Lenovo may be planning to add a WiMAX option to the IdeaPad U150  inch thin and light notebook. Wireless Goodness spotted an FCC filing for the U150 with an internal wielress card that would support WiMAX mobile broadband as well as 802.11b/g/n WiFi. The Lenovo IdeaPad U150 features ... http://www.popbatteries.com/2010/03/09/lenovo-ideapad-u150-may-be-getting-the-wimax-treatment/ Asus has pretty much stopped offering its netbooks and nettops with Linux preloaded. Instead, most of the company’s products come with Windows XP or Windows 7. But retailer Newegg is selling a first generation Asus Eee Box EB2020 nettop with Red Flag Linux, a Chinese Linux distribution that’s designed to ... http://www.popbatteries.com/2010/03/09/asus-eee-box-eb202-with-linux-selling-for-190-at-newegg/ I wanted to take a moment to let you know about a new web site I’ve just launched, called mobiputing. As you can probably guess from the name, mobiputing is and will continue to be a sister site to Liliputing. But while Liliputing is focused on netbooks and mobile computing ... http://www.popbatteries.com/2010/03/09/introducing-mobiputing-smartphone-apps-tips-and-news/ The Eee PC 1005PR is the first 10 inch netbook from Asus with a high resolution 1366 x 768 pixel display. It was first spotted at CeBIT in Germany last week, but now Asus has posted an official product page for the mini-laptop. Here’s a rundown of the specs: •Display: 10.1″ 1366 ... http://www.popbatteries.com/2010/03/08/asus-eee-pc-1005pr-product-page-goes-live-hd-display/ Looking for an alternative to the iPad that looks enough like Apple’s tablet to fool your friends into thinking you have one — until they see you start tapping on a start menu or playing Flash video? Then it looks like the upcoming HP slate might be the way to ... http://www.popbatteries.com/2010/03/08/the-hp-slate-imagine-an-ipad-that-plays-flash-runs-windows-7/ Chinese companies have been producing cheap knockoffs of big name laptops for years. But you know what most of them lack? Big name branding. Fortunately, at least one Chinese manufacturer realizes that the same thing is true for fake brand name laptops as fake brand name handbags: They’re more attractive ... http://www.popbatteries.com/2010/03/08/hp-mini-5102-clone-complete-with-the-hp-logo/ The Asus Eee PC 1001P is a bit like the kid brother to the recently launched Eee PC 1005PE netbook. While the Eee PC 1005PE comes with 802.11b/g/n WiFi and ships standard with a 6 cell battery (although there are two versions of the battery), the 1001P has 802.11b/g WiFi ... http://www.popbatteries.com/2010/03/08/unboxing-the-asus-eee-pc-1001p-%e2%80%93-video/ The Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3 is Lenovo’s third netbook in the IdeaPad line. But you could probably have guessed that from the name. Here’s what you might not know: It’s the best looking 10 inch netbook Lenovo has released to date, and it’s the first with a new Intel Atom N450 ... http://www.popbatteries.com/2010/03/08/lenovo-ideapad-s10-3-review/