Netbook

Its been along time since i have posted on netbooks, but my cash flow dried up. I have not got some new products to review, that hopefully you netbook fans will find useful.

Most recently i have bought a WD Passport, by western digital. Its a stylish looking USB 2.0 hdd. Its also usb powered and very small. They are available in a range of sizes, i went for the 250gb version.

Comes in nice packaging, with some syncing software and the USB lead needed to connect it to your computer.

Sorry i didn’t have anything to show the scale, but it is really small and the finish is great, matching my black eee pc 901 down to the ground!

I have some other products sitting here st netbook hq, and will get some info and pics about these up here ASAP.

Please check out our very own amazon store for our netbook5 recommended products: Netbook Store

If you have any neat products and would like to let us know how you got on with them let us know!

Netbooks had just found there best friend. Micro projectors!

Microprojectors are tiny projectors, perfect for portability and slipping in your rucksack with your netbook. Think about it… going to a mates house with your netbook, portable harddrive and hooking up your very own personal projector to watch some movies, or big screen gaming, showing your family photos. The possibilitys are endless.

To check out the latest in the world of micro projectors at www.microprojector5.co.uk

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Its been a while since i have posted an netbook games on the netbook site. Darwinia is a brilliant indy game. You control an army of green stick men who mus remove the virus that plagues the virtual world. Its very addictive, easy to play and great fun. The developers have fairly recently released a multiwinia to play the game online.

Luckily for us netbook owners its not too intensive on cpu resources, so runs very well on my EeePC 901 with a 2gb memory upgrade. I look very much forward to guiding my little stick men around in the multiplayer universe when i buy multiwinia. Let me know how the game runs for you!

More quick netbook game reviews comming soon!

Touch Book: world’s first netbook with detachable keyboard. This unique netbook is the first to be a fully functioning netbook PC that can also become a stand alone tablet, leaving that bulky keyboard behind.

The touch book was invented by Gregoire Gentil. It features an 8.9-inch display, with a 3D user interface. ARM processor, the Touch Book touts a large battery life of 10 to 15 hours. The avidly created netbook with 6 internal USB hubs and fanless, heat-and-noise-free system owes its sleek design to designer Fred Bould’s brilliance

We love it here at netbooks UK….. let us know what you think, I think ASUS will bring out there own version in the near future. They will need to get there skates on tho, as this will be out on the shop floor in early July!

Sony have unveiled there latest portable printers. The DPP-FP67 and the DPP-FP97 Digital Portable Photo Printers. They both allow for printing 4 by 6-inch photos on demand. Both printers have LCD screens, so you are able to edit and adjust your snaps before you print. Printing takes around 60 seconds per picture. The main difference between the models is that the DPP-FP97 along with printing the regular media files also features a HDMI port and supports Compact Flash. I look forward to seeing these in the shops. They are set to hit the shelves in May, hopefully in time to take some lovely photos of the summer, if it ever comes!!

After much searching I have found my perfect netbook mouse for my eeepc.

Its a bluetooth mouse, so its wireless and also means i can use the built in blue-tooth on the 901 and keep all my USB ports free for other uses.

The mouse is a Logitech V470 Bluetooth Laser Notebook Mouse. I got the OEM version which is black, its all about the black, but they do them in blue and also in white to match other peoples tastes. I do really like the blue, so my next amazon order i will be getting one too, I’m sure i can find a use for it!!

The mouse is a nice size. I’m a bloke that likes a big mouse… to go with my big hands!

You may have guessed, i got my mouse from amazon, i find the site very easy to use and quick to find products.

Lets take a look what all the fuss is about then!!

The mouse comes in a very minimalistic box, i really like it, but some might not. This could possibly just be how they supply the OEM version. Let me know!

This is what is in the box. The mouse, a funky carrying bag to stop it getting scratched (note the small logitech logo) you also get some installation instructions and a set of decent Duracell batteries too, this meant i didn’t need to raid the stores we have at work.. we shall see how long they last tho!

This is what the underside looks like, pretty generic. A slide off cover hides the batteries and you can see the opening for the laser.

As you can see it fits fine in my hands, its only a little bit smaller than my G5 mouse i use on my desktop and for gaming.

Installation was painless, download the logitech software, turn on blue tooth, turn on the mouse and press the button on the bottom to put it in detection mode. Pair the device up.. the logitech mouse software will do this for you, and your away. Its definitely sped up my computing i am doing on the eeepc. I’m not a fan of using the notebook type track pads. Bring on touch screen!

What mice have you netbook users got? Let us know!

Intel seem unable to keep up with the demand for there highly successful Atom CPU. It has become the bread and butter of netbooks processing power.

TSMC is already employed by major like AMD, Nvidia and VIA to make chips, it is not often you see Intel, who pride themselves on its own fabrication plants to make its chips and keep control over the whole process, using a third party chip fabricator.

Hopefully this will let us see some innovation in the market, with some different variations on the brillent technology Intel has created. Intel are definatly leading the market in almost all sectors.

AMD need to get there skates on, as they have some catching up to do!

Asus have patented wha they have called and “electronic device”. Could this be there next netbook design?

The patent  shows a full touch screen display for input, along with a hidden keyboard that reveals its self when you slide the display upwards. The tilting display can be tilted up like a normal notebook/netbook, but can become flat for full netbook tablet touch screen use.

What you think? I quite like the idea!!

Its been a week since I bought my first netbook PC…

I chose, after much thought, an ASUS EeePC 901 in black with windows XP. I took a few pics, of the box and whats inside it!
I didn’t take many because I wanted so badly to get my hands on it!!

The box... Trust me it didnt stay in it for long!

This is what it looked like when i removed the packaging!

This is what was in the box, XP and Software CD, the usual manuals and bits of paperwork, if it ever goes really wrong. I loved the case they included and loved the cleaning cloth, trust me you need it on the black eeepc!

This is my eeepc on first boot, love the splash screen design

Noe i have just updated the bias, i was along way behind the times, looks like this netbook has been on the shelves for a long time!

Now it boots loads quicker, is more stable when overclocking. You dont see this splash screen as the boot time is too quick!

Some one by the name of brotato has made “the poor mans netbook” this DIY modders dream has a 14.2″ LCD in a great looking carry case! The PC has a dual core 1.6Ghz Atom processor with 2Gb Memory, 160GB HDD and bluetooth and WiFi. The creation is for sale on ebay, i dread to think what price it will end at! It apparently comes with XP installed, but has been made to run Windows & and Max OS X, but the bluethooth didnt work onthe latter two.

One thing tho, it doesn’t have any battery’s so a wall outlet is a must!

Let us know what you think, have you tryed your hand at netbook modding?