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Netbook Era’s Weekly Digest: 21st-28th December 2008

Jay Bika — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 03:58:40 +0000

A lot happened in the netbook world but was not reported on Netbook Era because it’s that time of the year when we all go be with our loved ones and spend less time blogging although there’s always a laptop nearby.

The biggest news this week was the fact that Sony is joining the netbook era and its netbook is more a pocketbook called Sony Vaio P Series. In the new year, we will see what it’s all about.

It turns out that at CES 2009, touchscreen netbooks will rule the show. Surprisingly, everyone seems to be off the Apple netbook bandwagon as people see little odds of Apple releasing a MacBook Mini.

Amazon had “the best ever” holiday season at the expense of offline retailers who saw sales declining in these difficult economic times. It probably is no surprise to you that netbooks sold like hot cakes.

Naughty Intel is refusing to play nice with NVdia’s chip that would make netbooks faster and better. Caught in the act, Intel defended itself but we all know what’s really going on: Intel does not want to share the netbook pie with no one!

Intel may get to taste its own medicine in the form of a law suit. Psion, a UK company, is going around sending legal letters to all businesses that use the term netbook, a protected trademark they own according to their C&Ds. I sincerely hope that they will not come after us bloggers they promised.

So end the last weekly digest of 2008. In 2009 the netbook will be mightier than Obama so stay tuned by subscribing to the RSS feed.

I wish you a great 2009 and may you fare well in these hard times.

Cheeeeerssss…

How to Turn Your Netbook Into a Touchscreen

Jay Bika — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:49:08 +0000

If you really want your netbook or other laptop to be like an iPhone, you can now add a kit that allows it to be touchscreen able. A company from Taiwan is selling such a kit on eBay but the set-up looks rather cumbersome to me.

Read the whole news piece: New touchscreen kit for netbooks available

Gigabyte M912 Netbook

Jay Bika — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 03:47:57 +0000

“Besides the less-than-catchy name, this ultra-portable laptop from Gigabyte features a touch screen display (with LED backlighting) that can rotate 180 degrees to transform from a traditional notebook form factor to a tablet PC. The M912V packs a 1.6GHZ Intel Atom processor, 1GB of DDR2 memory, and a 2.5-inch SATA hard disk drive offering up to 250GB of storage. ” - Gigabyte unveils 8.9-inch touch screen laptop