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I just got a new netbook. Can I use it like a mobile phone where wifi is available? Or using a voip connection or Skype? Will this be cheaper than using a cell phone?
I don’t want to pay a month anymore for my phone if I can get much cheaper or free service through my netbook.
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Sony Vaio X Unboxing User Dimension6 over at the Notebookreview forums , has taken a series of exceellent pictures of his Japanese market Sony Vaio X netbook. Hea has the black model, but there is also a gold version, as well as a carbon fibre lid for extra cost. The ‘L’ battery option on his netbook sits flush with the device, which is poweed by a 1.86ghz Atom Z540 processor, 2gb of ram and a 64gb SSD. He states that the battery rated up to about 8 hours, provides around 5 hours of actual use time with Wi-Fi, WWAN and Bluetooth on. He gripes that the fan is a bit loud with only medium load on the system, but quiets down for light work and the palm-rest picks up grease easily. They keyboard, however, is excellent according to this Vaio X owner. Check out more unboxing pics after the break.
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MSI Wind U230 with an AMD Dual Core MSI hasn’t even officially launched their Windows 7 netbooks, but we have spotted the new MSI Wind U230 (with Windows 7 Home Premium) in the MSI product pages . It’a a new 12-inch MSI Wind model which stretches the definition of netbook not by screen size alone, it also packs new AMD Athlon Neo X2 dual-core processor (AMD Yukon MV40/L335) along with ATI Radeon HD 3200 integrated graphics and Windows 7 Home Premium. The rest of the specs match it’s sibling, the U210: a 12.1” 1366 x 768 display, up to 4GB RAM, 160-320GB HDD, 1.3MP Webcam, Gigabit LAN, 802.11n Wi-Fi, optional Bluetooth, HDMI, 3x USB, VGA and HDMI. Battery life good for up to 4 hours. Weighs 1.3kg. We haven’t seen the U230 for sale anywhere yet, so stay tuned for pricing and availability details.
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New MSI Wind U230 packs a dual core punch
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I’m planning to buy a netbook and apply for a sun cellular broadband internet connection so that I can work as a data entry professional in www.Odesk.com. Is a netbook with Sun Broadband enough for data entry jobs? Sun broadband runs at 100kbps on average btw. Thanks!
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We got our first glimpse at a computing future filled with low-cost, ARM-based ASUS smartbooks running Android on a 1GHz Snapdragon processor all the way back on June 1st. Since then, however, the pencil-spinning boys in Taiwan have been poo-pooing plans to launch such a device due to what ASUS called an uncertain market opportunity — or was it pressure from Wintel, we never can tell? Then yesterday, ASUS’ Jerry Shen pulled an about-face at an investor meeting in Taipei with talk of launching a $180 smartbook in Q1 of 2010. Bristling with confidence, Shen goes so far as to call it a “secret weapon” in a category offering potential for huge, Eee PC-like growth. Well, with the first big-name smartbooks just starting to ship, even a dozen or so sales could be considered statistically significant. [Via Shanzai ] Filed under: Laptops ASUS’ Android-based ’secret weapon’ smartbook launching in Q1 originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:48:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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ASUS’ Android-based ’secret weapon’ smartbook launching in Q1
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I pay Verizon for a data connection on my Blackberry. I am thinking about getting a netbook. Can I use my Blackberry as a modem?
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The fact that ASUS might possibly be launching an e-book reader isn’t news any more, but we have some more details to report now. Unnamed execs at the company have hinted that ASUS’ e-book reader could be on the shelves in Europe and American markets by March, 2010, and it’ll include both 3G and WiMAX versions (plus WiFi,of course). The e-book reader is also said to have a larger than usual 9-inch screen, and still be price “competitive” with the Kindle and Sony’s e-readers. No reports on hardware yet – and we really want to know what type of screen and processor Asus will go for… via SlashGear
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Asus to launch 3g and WiMAX equipped ebook readers by March, 2010
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If you want a netbook with better grahics performance than the standard GMA ‘built-in’ graphics from Intel, then Nvidia’s Ion platform is the way to go. It integrates Nvidias 9400M graphics chip with the Atom platform to give your netbook graphics performance an extra kick, which is useful for watching high resolution video. Recently, Nvidia quietly launched a varirant of the Ion platform, called Ion LE. As far as we could tell, the only difference in ION LE (besides the lower price) was that it only supported DirectX 9 vs. the DirectX 10 capapble Nvidia Ion platform. That was no problem for Windows XP users, since XP only supports DirectX 9, but Windows 7 users want DirectX 10 support. Well, now a MyHPMini forum member called runawayprisoner has found a way to enable DirectX 10 support in the Nvidia Ion LE chips. He did it by fooling the HP supplied driver into recognizing his ION LE chip as a regular Ion chip. At the end of the day, after a few software modifications, he has his ION LE chip running DirectX 10 and his Windows Experience Index score for gaming graphics jumped from 3.9 to 5.4. Check out the forum thread for all the details. via Liliputing
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Turn Nvidia Ion LE into full Nvidia Ion by enabling DirectX 10 – here’s how.
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