Over at IFA in Berlin, Sony have announced the new VAIO X series netbook. The Sony Vaio X has an 11 inch screen and is very thin. The casing is made from carbon fibre that houses an aluminium keyboard. As the Vaio X uses lightweight materials it also is very light at just 700 grams.

Right now the display model uses an Intel Atom processor and the machine runs Windows 7 with 2GB of ram and a 31Wh battery. However, Sony have also said that the Atom processor is just one of the options and could be changed in the near future when production models are made (or when more options are made available). The details are being kept very secret at the moment. Interestingly enough, the netbook should launch at the end of the month and cost a usual Sony premium price tag of $2000. [Read more…]

Nokia Conversations have posted a quick hands-on video with the Nokia Booklet 3G. The video is more of a promotional sort with funky music and dodgy camera angles, but you do get a good idea of the size and functions of the booklet.

To see the video, hit the more link right here… [Read more…]

A roadmap of upcoming Asus Eee netbook products has been leaked. It shows an impressive line of netbooks that will be appearing which includes a new 12″ netbook that uses the NVIDIA Ion graphics chip along with a tablet PC that will feature a multi-touch display.

Prices for these new netbooks and tablets are in the $300 – $500 price range too making them very affordable. [Read more…]

The NetWalker built by Sharp is another netbook sized device that is completely on opposite sites of the scale to the spacebook we just mentioned. This tiny netbook has just a 5 inch display, has 512MB of RAM and runs an 800MGz Arm Cortex-A8 processor.

The device is ultra-compact due to it’s small screen and dimensions of 161 x 109 x 20-25 mm and a weight of just 410g. Battery life see’s this netbook powered for about 10 hours. [Read more…]

gScreen have released real photos of their Spacebook dual screened laptop. This laptop has 2 15.4 inch screens although the first released versions will have 2 x 16″ or 2 x 17″ displays built in. When folded up, one of the screens slides behind the other with a unique sliding mechanism.

“We designed this knowing that many may not need the extra screen at all times,” Gordon told me. But when you do use both screens you’ll get about 30-inches of screen space. GScreen plans to release dual 13-inch models at some point.

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A few months back, Lenova announced the IdeaPad S12 netbook that was going to run the NVIDIA Ion chip set. We now hear that they have delayed shipping of the unit as they are waiting for Windows 7 to be launched. As Windows 7 is literally around the corner the good news is that the netbook/laptop should be shipping by the end of this month.

The IdeaPad S12 runs an Intel Atom N270 processor and uses the NVIDIA GeForce 9400 graphics chip. This particular model with these specs will cost more than a standard version running just the Intel Atom processor. [Read more…]

Dell have revealed details on their latest laptop named the Dell Inspiron 11z. The Dell 11z is powered by a 1.2GHz Intel Celeron 723 CULV processor, has an integrated graphics chip and an 11.6 inch LCD display with a resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels.

The price tag is $399 for the starting model which runs Windows Vista Home Premium and comes with 2GB of RAM. [Read more…]

Amazon are giving a $70 saving when you purchase an Asus K50IJ-C1 laptop along with a Western Digital 250GB My Passport external hard drive. The laptop has a high definition LED based 15.6″ screen and is powered by an Intel Core Two Duo T6500 processor running at a nice 2.1GHz. 4GB of RAM is included with this laptop and it has 250GB of storage on a SATA 5400 RPM hard drive. It runs Windows Vista Home Premium and overall it’s a very powerful laptop.

The Asus laptop uses Asus’ Super Hybrid Engine that helps give more battery power too and thanks to a wireless 802.11 B/G/N lan card it can also connect at high-speeds if you have a wireless N router. [Read more…]

MSI are working on a series of touchscreen netbooks that are planned for a late this year launch. The netbooks will be powered by the Intel Pine Trail-M platform.

With them being launched by Christmas all being well, and touting a touchscreen I’d expect them to be running Windows 7 by that point due to the launch of Windows 7 this month. [Read more…]

Another Apple Tablet story is moving around the web again. This time it’s thanks to a French website named nowhereelse who have published some “legit?” pictures of the rumoured Apple Tablet.

Although the picture does somewhat resemble an Apple iPod Touch made fatter, I’m not convinced it’s the real thing as it just looks a bit too cheap and tacky to be an official product. [Read more…]

Samsung have launched the ND10 netbook that allows you to purchase it OS free. By being OS free it allows you to simply choose what ever OS you want to install such as XP, Android or various Linux builds. Lets take a closer look and see if it can become one of the best netbooks around.

The ND10 is very similar to the NC10 in specs as it has a 10.2 inch screen, an Intel Atom N270 processor and over seven hours battery life. [Read more…]

The Toshiba Satellite L355 is a 17″ laptop that runs an Intel Celeron Processor, doesn’t have a webcam, no HDMI and no memory card reader. Other than that it’s not a bad laptop. The great thing here is that this entry level L355 will cost just $348 when it goes on sale at Walmart this Sunday.

Although it does lack a few premium features such as HD, the webcam and has a relatively slow processor it still is a great deal for those who do the basics such as web browsing, watching movies and checking email. At a price of just $348 for a laptop of this size you can’t really go wrong. [Read more…]