The year 2007 saw the release of the NanoBook reference design, a design platform for the emerging UMPC (ultra mobile PC) market. Since then, numerous vendors have adopted the design and released NanoBooks like the Everex Cloudbook, Zyrex Ubud and Astone UMPC.
Now, a year later, VIA has released the second generation VIA OpenBook reference design. […]

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While the Asus Eee PC 900 has been out for a while, the black Linux version has been rather elusive. After a few delays because of the 5800mAh battery issue, I finally received my preordered unit. Well, here are some photos.

Quick Use Guide, User Guide, Warranty Card, Linux Recovery DVD, Support CD, Neoprene Carrying Case, […]

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An Indonesian blogger has written a short review on Zyrex Ubud. The review is written in Bahasa Indonesia but you can use Toggletext to translate the text between Bahasa Indonesia and English. Comparing the Indonesian Nanobook to the Asus EEE PC 701, the author made the following remarks (mistranslation included):

Prefer the design of the battery […]

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Is something brewing? Is a new model of Cloudbook coming soon? A clearance sale? Or just to fend off the competitors? Maybe we shouldn’t think too much into the price cut and just take it as a great offer.
Buy the Cloudbook CE1200V at US$349 here.

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The UMPC from Everex is known as the Cloudbook SC1200T in Taiwan. Its specifications is almost similar to America’s Cloudbook CE1200V except for an upgrade in RAM size to 1Gb and a different choice of operating system. Everex Cloudbook SC1200T comes with Windows XP instead of the gOS which is found in CE1200V.

I have been […]

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