India is Developing a $10 Laptop, Can Anybody Beat That?

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Ms Kitagawa, an anaylst from the research company Gartner, predicts that worldwide PC shipments will grow by 14% in Q4, but much of that is predicted to come from netbooks.
HP have already joined the netbook world and yesterday reduced the price of their Mini-Note 2133. Many hoped this [...]

On Global sources electronics fair in Hong Kong we were shown a lot of new netbooks, in this post we will look on a couple of models from a company called Firstview:

First of is a 7 inch-model called Firstview PC703.
The specifications is:

7 inch Digital LCD screen,VGA 800*480 pixels.
Windows CE 5.0
CPU: Z228
Processor: Jade 532MHz 32-bit Processor
ROM: [...]

Words on the streets are saying that Dell seems to be prepping up a new notebook/netbook called the Dell Inspiron Mini 1210. A service manual and setup guide pages sitting right on Dell’s official site revealed this Inspiron Mini 1210.
Based on the leaked documents we are looking into a 12-inch notebook powered by Intel Atom [...]

Japanese manufacturer maybe starting to notice the growing popularity of netbooks, that some of them are starting to join the netbook party. One of them is NEC which just announced their own netbook – the LaVie Light. Sadly, this netbook got nothing unusual to brag about except for the fact that it has the NEC [...]

jkOnTheRun have received a promotional email from HP showing that their Mini-Note netbook has now been reduced in price.
The base model is now available for $399, a whopping $100 off the original price. The base model of the Mini-Note comes with a Via processor, 4GB SSD, SUSE Linux and 512MB RAM. The next model up [...]