Neowin News Feed for: Netbooks

HP recalls millions of laptop power cords worldwide due to fire risk

Andy Weir — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 11:24:01 +0000

HP is recalling around six million power cords that it shipped with notebooks and accessories, citing a "risk of a fire and burn hazard to customers", after 29 instances of the cords overheating. Read more...

Netbook shipments to die completely by 2015

Tim Schiesser — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 07:27:10 +0000

iSuppli is predicting that netbook shipments will completely die off by 2015, while shipments this year will fall 72% to just 3.97m. The rise in popularity of tablets is understandably to blame. Read more...

Chromebooks. Should Microsoft be concerned?

Brad Sams — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 19:28:49 +0000

Google, a nearly impenetrable force in the search market, is now starting to make waves in the OS market too. But should Microsoft be concerned about Google's lightweight, Internet-dependent OS? Read more...

Rumor: Samsung could dump netbooks for Ultrabooks

John Callaham — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 10:39:11 +0000

A new rumor claims that Samsung will soon no longer make any more of its netbook products. Instead it will reportedly produce ultraportables and notebooks based on Intel's Ultrabook design. Read more...

Netbooks are quickly dying off as tablet sales overtake

Tim Schiesser — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:00:36 +0000

Sales for netbooks are quickly and unsurprisingly diminishing due to massive interest in the tablet market, spelling an impending death for the low-cost poor-performing notebook type Read more...

HP likely to reveal webOS netbooks alongside tablets and smartphones

Brenton Currie — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 01:27:03 +0000

A new video in HP's training centre suggests HP may be preparing to reveal netbooks running their webOS 2.0 operating system at their special event next month. The video, found on HP's carrier training website and... Read more...

Intel to release dual-core Atoms this quarter after profits soar over 400%

Matt Blowes — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:50:32 +0000

Intel will be releasing the highly anticipated dual-core Atom processor this quarter. The announcement comes after the chip maker had an over 400% profit rise for the first quarter this year compared to the same... Read more...

Dell talks netbooks, diversifying, and Windows 7

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:13:51 +0000

At a sponsored dinner on Tuesday night, Dell Founder and CEO, Michael Dell, told of his dislike for netbooks and admitted that the "biggest mistake" of his career was not diversifying the company sooner. When... Read more...

Microsoft charges less than $15 for each XP netbook

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 04:43:19 +0000

Recently Gartner Analysis predicted that the sales of netbooks will grow nearly 80% this year to 21 million units, while overall PC sales decline by 11.9%. Given that netbooks are leading the PC market growth,... Read more...

Windows 7 and netbooks - Where are we now

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:27:30 +0000

There has been lot going on with Windows 7 and that it can run on 'netbooks' - lightweight, low-cost laptops that typically use Intel's low-powered Atom processor and don't come with substantial amounts of RAM... Read more...

Google Android, a Windows 7 netbook killer?

James Hall — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 05:12:54 +0000

Rumours are spreading that Google is in talks with leading netbook producers to offer a version of Android in anticipation of competing with Microsoft's own Windows 7, an operating system designed to be flexible enough... Read more...

Bright future ahead for Windows 7 and netbooks

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:03:15 +0000

Craig Marcho, a support engineer with the Performance Team of Microsoft has blogged his recent experiences with Windows 7 on netbook. A pre-beta build of Windows 7 loaded on a netbook helped him to run... Read more...

HP netbooks will likely run 3 versions of Windows 7

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:14:03 +0000

Hewlett-Packard said it will likely offer at least 3 different editions of Windows 7 - The Starter, Professional and the Home Premium editions on future models of its Mini netbooks. Kyle Thornton,... Read more...

Microsoft touts Windows 7 for Netbooks

Andrew Lyle — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:09:29 +0000

During a recent question and answer session with Brad Brooks, corporate vice president of Windows Consumer Product Marketing, he gave his take on Windows 7 on netbooks, or mini-notebook PC's. ... Read more...

Google Android netbooks on their way

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:12:06 +0000

MatthÃ¤us Krzykowski & Daniel Hartmann have successfully ported Google's mobile operating system, Android, to a desktop operating system. The Android's Linux core has helped them to achieve this. The work started when a Google developer,... Read more...