Tag: netbook

The TechCrunch CrunchPad Is The Future of Fabrication

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A fair amount of buzz today over Michael Arrington’s posting of details of his Tablet Computing prototype over on TechCrunch. Arrington is looking to make a slate-style touch screen device, running at 1024×768, and booting directly to a Webkit based browser. It looks ungainly now – although I think the Duplo based stand (*) in the demo video should be included in the retail pack – but his target of $300 retail price is ambitious and places it in the impulse buy in many tech stores. I’m not going to go down the route of many blogs that are trying

Touring with Intel, the Mid Moves Project

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Just after Le Web this year, Steve Paine approached me and asked if I’d be interested in joining the Mid Moves team, where a number of bloggers take some new Intel based Mobile Internet Devices out and about to see what they can do. So Nicole Simon is going to be all business like, Jenn Lee is going on a theme park tour of the US and Chippy is going on a multi-country tour around Europe. And me? As usual I wanted to do something a little bit different. There’s less of a geographical tour to my trip, I’m going

The Asus EEE and Psion’s Influence

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Two little things around my Asus EEE PC show why it’s obvious that I really like this machine. The first is the solitary sticker on the case of the machine – the Moo Stickers along the battery spine don’t count. It’s the metallic badge of the Psion Series 3mx, probably the finest British PDA ever made, that sits proudly on the lid. The second is the case that I carry the EE around in. It’s an old, battered, mix of hard ABS plastic covered in felt and canvas, and held my Psion Netbook for many a year, starting in early

Let Me Help You Win A Vodafone Dell Netbook

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I’ve been blogging a fair bit about the Asus EEE PC since it arrived, and this class of device is starting to get ever more popular, with various manufacturers looking at the space, which is intruiging as the prices seem to be very close to commoditisation levels even now. That means the value is in other areas, and I think that’s the thinking behind the Vodafone/Dell deal where you can pick up Dell’s Inspiron Mini 9 running Windows XP and a built in 3G connectivity hardware (alongside the Wi-Fi). So who would like to win one? I’m helping judge a