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Archive for September 5, 2008
HiVision NB0700: Mini laptop mini price
Sep 5th
HiVision seem to have beaten their competitors to the race to produce a sub $100 laptop with their new model, the NB0700.
The HiVision NB0700 comes with either Windows CE or Linux, a 7″ screen (800 x 480 pixel resolution), 400MHz MIPS CPU, WiFi support, 1gb of solid state memory and a choice of either 64mb or 128mb of RAM. Connectivity is tied up with the inclusion of a SDHC card reader and 3 USB ports.
It may not be the quickest model in the world but, with a price of just $98, there probably won’t be all that many complaints about that.
Source: Liliputing
A post from the Asus Eee PC blog.
HiVision NB0700: Mini laptop mini price
Dell Inspiron Mini 9 easy to upgrade
Sep 5th
Jkontherun is reporting that he has been discussing the Dell Inspiron Mini with Laptop Magazine and how Dell have prepared their new netbook to be easily upgradable in the future.
Dell seem to have made much effort to make the upgrading process as simple as possible for users. They have fitted a panel into the bottom of the unit which when removed gives full access to the wireless card, a free slot for wireless wan connection, the SSD module and the RAM slot.
It’s good to see a company thinking ahead for it’s customers, it would be nice to see other companies follow Dell’s example.
A post from the Asus Eee PC blog.
Dell Inspiron Mini 9 easy to upgrade
Aspire One: Installing and Running Windows XP
Sep 5th
Getting Windows XP installed, however, does not. I do not have an external CD/DVD reader (I’m the world’s worst geek, I collect old, outdated computer peripherals, not new ones that would actually be useful), so I needed to install Windows XP using an USB stick. You’d think that in 2008 this would be trivial, but apparently, it’s not, for some mysterious reason. I like to think it’s that same reason that supposedly explains why Vista’s Mobile Device Center doesn’t sync Windows Mobile devices with Vista’s Contacts, Mail, and Calendar applications.
Creating a bootable Windows XP USB stick is tricky, but not impossible. The surge in popularity of netbooks has created a lot of attention on this subject, meaning there are a lot of guides out there. This one worked for me, but your mileage may vary. Once you’ve booted off the USB stick, be wary when you come to the step where you create and format the system partition, because you have to make sure the system partition is the c: one, or else the system will not boot. This may mean that you need to reboot into the text installation after creating the system partition just to be sure it’s mounted as the c: drive. And yes, it’s not you, it’s still 2008. Be sure to format the partition with fat32, as that greatly improves the speed of the system.
Full read up here @ osnews.com
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