Netbook + iPad = the ExoPC Slate

It’s just freaking amazing what technology and a little time on your hands can do. Like French tech company ExoPC, for instance, which produced the ExoPC Slate — we figure this is a cross between a netbook and some other small multi-touch tablet with black bezels whose name we just cant place right now. Go

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The Netbook does, what the iPad can’t

The freaking thing hasn’t even shipped, and the Apple iPad has already divided the Internet community into believers and haters. We won’t join in that direction — as far as MacPCWiz is concerned, jury’s still out on whether in the Apple tablet is a “gadget to beat” or not.

Steve Jobs' newest baby – the

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ASUS’ Eee PC 1201N blows the netbook competition away (as expected)

As far as netbooks go, and MacPCWiz guarantees this, you will be hard pressed to find a performer better than the ASUS Eee PC Seashell 1201N.

There, we just had to get that out of the way, so you know what to expect out of this article. The the end of the age of netbooks may

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2010: The “death of the netbook” and the “year of the tablet”?

Barely a week into 2010 and techies all over the world are already proclaiming the downfall of 2009’s favorite gadget — the netbook. Black Friday’s hottest item is going RIP, says all my fellow tech nerds while sipping their designer coffee and hunched over their work terminals. A blog at NYTimes.com says it this way:

Stuck

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nVidia ION allows Blu-Ray viewing on a netbook

nVidia’s ION graphics chip is looking more like a winner by the moment. We talked about the nVidia ION’s graphics capabilities at length, and what a boon they can be to netbooks. But now, David Ragones, product line manager at Nvidia claims here at a CNET.com article that nVidia ION for netbooks supports blu-ray playback.

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ASUS Eee PC 1201N — Fastest Netbook of the moment?

If there are characteristics that should be expected from a netbook — to be lightning FAST is not one of them. A netbook is portable, trendy, affordable, mobile, light, and undeniably cute. So if what we hear about the ASUS Eee PC 1201N is all true, that is not such a bad thing at all.

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Seagate Momentus: World’s Thinnest 2.5 Hard Drive

To add fuel to a netbook-induced craze that has gripped the computer-buying public these holidays, hard drive manufacturer Seagate has released an ultra-thin 2.5-inch hard disk drive obviously targeted at netbooks and ultra-portables. Found this via NetbookChoice.com:

Seagate has announced a new hard-disk drive that it claims is the world’s thinnest at 7mm. The Seagate Momentus

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November’s Bestselling NETBOOKS

As the holiday season goes into full swing, you’ll be hearing more and more of this, the computer system of the year by far – the NETBOOK. The biggest shopping holiday of the year, Black Friday, has come and gone (that’s “when-Americans-get-into-an-irrational-buying-frenzy-every-end-of-November-and-buy-everything-they-see” to you non-US residents) and we here at MacPCWiz list down for you

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Lenovo ThinkPad X100e: NOT a netbook

Lenovo positions the ThinkPad X100e as an “entry level ultraportable”. Netbook shnetbook. We don’t really see the difference guys. It’s small, its powered by a low-power AMD processor, it’s got an 11-inch display. Who else here agrees with them that it’s NOT a netbook? Sheesh. We found this at Softpedia.com:

Earlier this month, we got word

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Flash 10.1 update improves HD-viewing on ION netbooks

We talked about nVidia’s ION graphics solution for netbooks here, and here great news already for those people who chose an ION-powered netbook over an Intel GMA 950 — Adobe has the new Flash 10.1 update which improves HD-viewing for Flash videos on ION graphics. CNET.com delivers the news:

…we’re pleased to see the Flash player

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