Koreans and Japanese love their kitsch, but I’ve never seen a kitschier gadget than this one. Samsung just launched a Barbe-branded netbook called the Samsung X170. The bubblegum-pink device is ultra-portable with an 11.6″, 1366×768 display, a 9-hour battery, and an Intel...

To keep up with the theme of new notebooks and laptops at CES 2010, Samsung announced five, stylish new models in its R-Series line of netbooks – the powerful R780, R580 and R480 and the affordable, R530 and R430. The first three models are designed for perfect video viewing and...

CES 2010 hasn’t officially begun yet, but manufacturers are starting to announce new products to get consumers all excited. Asus just unveiled a whole bunch of new notebook and netbooks, including two new lines – the K-Series and N-Series. The N-Series is part of Asus’s USB...

Christmas is all about giving, and it seems just right to feature the new laptop made just for the charity program, One Laptop Per Child. In case you haven’t heard of it, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is a charity founded and run by Nicholas Negroponte, with the aim of providing one...

Remember the gorgeous HP Mini 1100 designed by Vivienne Tam? True to the exclusive limited edition guarantee, these beauties are no longer for sale, but HP has another designer netbook in store for discerning fashionistas. Yesterday, we attended the launch of the HP Mini 110 and 113 at the...

Update : August 10, 2009 I decided to buy the HP Mini. I thought it would be easy to find it. Most stores said that it was out of stock for a month now. Good thing I called up computer stores first. The only store that still had it was Electroworld Greenbelt 1. They had 3 HP Mini 2140 left....

Those of you who’ve been hoping for new netbooks from Asus and Acer, it looks like you’ll have to wait til next year. According to Digitimes, the two manufacturers won’t be releasing new netbooks until 2010, and will instead focus on producing ultra-thin notebooks. Well,...

Ever since the first ASUS EEE PC came out, netbooks have gotten bigger and lost the one trait that made them attractive in the first place: size. Why go for a 12-inch netbook when you can just get a more powerful laptop? The new Asus EEE Seashell, however, reminds me of the convenience and...

HP just announced three new sleek and affordable HP-Mini netbooks. The new HP Mini 1101, HP Mini 110 XP, and HP 1101 Mi all have GMA 950 graphics, and the Mini 100 Xp has a Broadcom Crystal HD Enhanced Video Accelerator. Otherwise, their specs are fairly mainstream, but it’s not like...

Asus took the design of the calming beauty of the ocean side and combined it to create the most stylishly functional EEE PC to date. The new seashell-pink EEE PC Seashell is an ultra-compact, portable companion that anyone can use to surf the Internet, update their blog, or stay in touch with...