The Acer Chromebook 311 suits its purpose as a basic device well, particularly for educational and casual tasks.
The Acer Chromebook Spin 513 is a 13.3-inch convertible laptop that has caught the attention of many tech enthusiasts.
The ASUS Chromebook Plus CX34 is a 14-inch laptop that aims to deliver solid performance without breaking the bank. This review breaks down its key features.
The video is a review of the Lenovo Flex 3i Chromebook, a 15.6-inch convertible laptop. The reviewer highlights its large screen, versatility, and affordability.
Review of the ASUS CX1500CKA Chromebook: Pros, cons, and performance insights for budget-conscious users.
Unboxing the 2024 Acer Chromebook 311: Lightweight, eco-friendly, good for students and budget-conscious users.
This video is a quick hands on the Samsung Chromebook Plus by Robby Payne of Chrome Unboxed at CES 2017.
A quick review by Robby Payne of the Acer Chromebook 15 C910-54M1, which is powered by an Intel core i5 processor.
This video by Waj Syed from MW Technology compares the Chromebook Pixel 2 with the latest version of the MacBook Pro.
This video by DetroitBORG gives you some good impressions of the new Chromebook Pixel LS from unboxing to naming the hardware components, comparing it with the predecessor, and demonstrating the software.
This is a short video of Robby Payne unboxing one of the latest Chromebooks out there, the Acer Chromebook 15 C910-C37P.
This video demonstrates game play on a Toshiba Chromebook 2 running Xubuntu via Crouton using the Steam In-Home Streaming technology.
Acer showcased this new Chromebook at CES 2015, which currently takes place in Las Vegas: the Acer Chromebook 15.
A short hands-on video of the upcoming Tegra K1 powered HP Chromebook 14 recored by Steve Paine at IFA 2014.
There are 2 main criticisms of Chromebooks in terms of hardware: too little RAM and low quality displays. An upcoming Chromebook that could fill this gap is the Toshiba Chromebook 2 CB30-B.
In this video Robby Payne of Chrome Unboxed gets his hands on the new 13.3-inch ASUS C300 Chromebook.
In this video Robby Payne of Chrome Unboxed gets his hands on the 13.3-inch model of the new Samsung Chromebook 2.
This short video demos playing the shareware version of Doom on a Samsung Chromebook. It is a flash based game, which can be played while the Chromebook is offline.
This is a quick demo video of the touchscreen capabilities of Ubuntu 12.10 on an ASUS VivoBook X202E. When the video was created in late 2012, that was the newest version of Ubuntu.
Samsung recently announced the Chromebook 2 series of latops with higher specced hardware at a higher price.
In this demo video Kevin Tofel of Gigaom shows how you can use Google's Chromebook Pixel with other Linux based operating systems than Chrome OS.
After ASUS and Acer followed other hardware manufacturers by discontinuing the production of those tiny laptops, netbooks were declared dead here and there.
The new Samsung Chromebook seems to be a huge success. It currently ranks first on Amazon's laptop best seller list and is temporarily out of stock.
The HP Mini 1000 was first released in late 2008. HP Mobile Internet (MIE), the original Linux based operating system it shipped with, was dropped by HP long
Whenever I see people tinkering with Linux like in this video, it is a confirmation that operating systems based on the Linux kernel are the most fascinating and fun to work with.
Right after the release of the new Chromebook Brad of Liliputing captured his initial impressions in this video. As with the 1st generation Samsung Chromebook
This netbook by Sunlike, recently showcased at China Sourcing Fair, is powered by a 1.2GHz Boxchip A10 CPU, comes with 1GB RAM and runs Android.
The 1st generation of Samsung Chromebooks was released about a year ago, so it's high time for an updated model with improved specs, software and boot time,
In the last post we have seen Android running on the Wabook EPC1029, a netbook powered by an ARM based Rockchip CPU.
Netbooks seem to be out of fashion but now and then a new device pops up, that fits into the netbook category, especially when tech exhibitions take place. One
There hasn't been a lot of Fedora coverage here so far, even though it is one of the most popular Linux distributions. I don't know of any netbook that comes
In this video Matt Hartley demonstrates Linux Mint 12 on an ASUS Eee PC 1005PE netbook. He shows how to boot the operating system from a live disk, introduces
Android-x86 is an open source project with the goal to port Android to the x86 platform, so you can run Android on your laptop or PC.
The Acer AC700 Chromebook has been available for a while and finally we have the chance to watch a video with Nicole from Netbook News getting her hands on the
This short video, filmed at the Hong Kong Computer & Communications Festival 2011, shows some of the software features the Asus Eee PC X101 running a custom
Here is a video featuring the brand new Samsung Series 5 Chromebook being unboxed and booted for the 1st time.
Besides the Asus Eee PC X101 also the Lenovo Ideapad S100 was showcased at the recent Computex running the MeeGo operating system. The long awaited Ideapad S100
There has been continued speculation about ASUS considering a Linux based operating system again for new netbook models. Google's Chrome and Android systems
Soon after the recent announcement of Samsung and Acer Chromebooks being released next month the Samsung Series 5 Chromebook was showcased at last week's final
This video by Charbax from ARMdevices features a mini laptop he spotted at the recent China Sourcing Fair in Hong Kong. The Chinese product is powered by a 1.2
Recently Fujitsu launched their first MeeGo based netbook, the Fujitsu LIFEBOOK MH330, in the Asia Pacific region and today Linpus Technologies announced that
At the recent Mobile World Congress 2011 in Barcelona the folks over at Netbook News spotted this 10.1-inch netbook by Russian PC maker DNS.
Here is another non-tablet device that Charbax from ARMdevices spotted at CES 2011.
If you follow the coverage of this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, you may conclude that it's all about the most promising iPad competitor or
JKK of jkkmobile chats with Warren Coles of Linpus at last month's Intel Developer Forum 2010 about the MeeGo based version of Linpus Linux Lite, demonstrated
Here's another video with impressions of the new Unity user interface in Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.10 showing the quite radical changes compared to the UI in
This video from the Ubuntu Developers channel demonstrates multitouch capabilities provided by the uTouch gesture framework in Ubuntu Unity.
Ubuntu 10.10, code named Maverick Meerkat, was officially released today. You can take a quick look at the new Unity user interface of Ubuntu Netbook Edition in
One of the cool aspects of open source software is that it encourages people to tinker with and not just use it as intended. A result of such tinkering can be
Right after yesterday's Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.10 beta release anouncement we can take a quick look at the upcoming version in this video. Besides faster
I guess Jolicloud 1.0 is still being rolled out so not everyone with an installation had the chance to upgrade and see what the new version is like themselves.
As announced last week version 1.0 of Jolicloud is currently being rolled out to the users of the netbook operating system. Probably the most obvious change
About 8 months have passed since Google announced their Web centric Chrome operating system. An official release from Google is expected by the end of 2010.
This short video demoes touch support in Jolicloud 1.0 on the Samsung NB30 netbook. You get a sense of how to navigate and start applications as well as
Marco Martin posted a little how to on improving KDE Plasma Netbook performance and created this video to demonstrate the result of the configuration change he
Looking at the devices showcased at this year's COMPUTEX in Taipei it doesn't look like 2010 is the year for Linux on netbooks but rather the year of Android
We saw a preview of MeeGo for netbooks last month at the IDF 2010 and yesterday MeeGo v1.0 was released to the public. The 1st stable release of the
These 2 videos show how the search, launch, and newspaper features will look in the Plasma Netbook Shell of the upcoming KDE Software Compilation 4.5.
The new Jolicloud HTML5 launcher demoed in this 1st official video definitely looks slick and is another good reason to look forward to the final release of
In his keynote at this week's Ubuntu Developer Summit in Brussels, Belgium, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth unveiled Unity and Ubuntu Light. Ubuntu Light is a
This video shows the netbook edition of Ubuntu Lucid Lynx being booted on an HP 2133 Mini-Note netbook. There is hardly more to say except that the boot time is
We've seen a demo of the KDE Plasma Netbook shell running on an Asus Eee PC 1005HA before, but this time KDE developer Marco Martin got Plasma working
Two months after the announcement of the Meego operating system, the merger of the Moblin and Maemo platforms, version 1.0 of the Linux based OS was presented
These two videos show the SDL port of Quake and a free version of Doom being played on the Ben NanoNote pocket computer. They were created by TUXBRAIN
Tim from the OSGUI Tech Show takes a look at different desktop environments for Ubuntu 10.04 on his ASUS Eee PC 1001HA netbook. In this video he gives us short
This short video shows Ubuntu Lucid Lynx Alpha 2 being booted on an Acer Aspire One D250 netbook in about 30 seconds.
This video by JKKmobile recorded at CeBIT 2010 gives us a taste of Linpus Linux Lite 1.3 running on an Acer Aspire One netbook. The new version of the Fedora
Another video featuring the Chitech CT-PC89E, this time running the MID-LINUX operating system, which is pre-installed on the netbook. The operating system's
The Chitech CT-PC89E is a low-cost ARM-based netbook from China powered by a 667MHz Samsung S3C6410 processor.
Back in January at CES 2010 the MSI Wind U135 running SUSE Moblin attracted lots of attention and now at Mobile World Congress there shows up another MSI Wind.
In this video Chippy from Carrypad gets his hands on the Compaq Airlife 100 at Mobile World Congress 2010, which currently takes place in Barcelona, Spain.
Here is another tutorial style video from the OSGUI Tech Show showing the installation of Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.10 on an ASUS Eee PC 1001HA netbook from a USB
American science fiction author Thomas Disch once said that Creativity is the ability to see relationships where none exist. So be creative and think about what
This screencast tutorial from the OSGUI Tech Show shows how to install Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.10. Tim takes you through the installation steps and after
This video demos Full HD 1080p video playback on a Samsung N210 netbook with an Intel Atom N450 processor running Jolicloud. 4 weeks after adding Full HD
This video features products from Hivision showcased at CES 2010, including the PWS700B and PWS700BA Linux netbooks, as well as an MID with Windows CE, and an
Samsung showcased a large number of netbooks at CES 2010, but according to Ars Technica there was one netbook that attracted the most attention, the Samsung
The openSUSE project was one of the early adopters of Moblin and now we can see the result of mixing SUSE Linux and Moblin on the upcoming MSI Wind U135
The Lenovo Skylight is the first ARM processor smartbook based on Qualcomm's Snapdragon chipset platform with built-in WiFi and 3G connectivity. The super thin
As announced yesterday on Twitter there will soon be an update for Jolicloud that adds support for NVIDIA ION graphics processors.
If you think Linux is not right for you, because it's different and you wouldn't know how to get along with it, Ylmf OS maybe something for you, provided you
This is a short demo of Linux Mint 8 running on the Gecko Edubook. For a full-blown OS like Linux Mint, which required 8.5GB disk space in the example
This video created by developers from the Interactive Computing Lab at ENAC demonstrates interaction with existing Linux applications in Fedora 12 via
There is not much more to say about this video, except that it shows the recently released Pre-Beta of Jolicloud being booted on an ASUS Eee PC 901 in about 13
About a year from now Chrome OS is expected to be ready for consumer use. Whether it will ship on netbooks as the primary operating system, as an additional
This video is a brief demonstration of the KDE Plasma netbook interface running on an Asus Eee PC 1005HA. We get an impression of the widget based desktop with
Doug Aamoth of CrunchGear and litl CEO John Chuang recorded this video walkthrough of the litl webbook and OS talking about the design philosophy behind this
TINT is a clone of the venerable Tetris game, that you play inside your Linux terminal as shown in this video by Luis.
This video is a short demonstration of the free multiplayer first person shooter Urban Terror being played on System76's Starling netbook. The netbook which
Leeenux is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu Netbook Remix 8.04 and easypeasy that is mainly targeted at the Asus Eee PC 4G surf, a.k.a. Eee 701G. By
Jolicloud is a very promising Ubuntu based netbook distro with a focus on Web based applications and social networks. In this video Peter of Netbooked takes a
xPUD is a very fast and lightweight Linux distro with a simple user interface. It mainly consists of a Web browser and a media player. On average xPUD boots in
The 3 new versions of Linpus Linux Lite demonstrated in this video from Mid Moves recorded at the Intel Developer Forum 2009 look pretty awesome.
wattOS is a lightweight Ubuntu based Linux distro designed to run on low power computers and recycled systems. The main goal of the project is to create a full
The Skytone Alpha 680 is the first netbook running Google's Android operating system.
This video introduces the user interface, the boot-up and package managers, system settings, and some of the applications available on Kuki Linux, a lightweight
Gregoire Gentil, founder of Always Innovating, personally demonstrates the Touch Book, a device that combines netbook and touchscreen tablet. In the 1st video
I tried several operating system on the HP Mini 1000 netbook during the past months, inlcuding Karmic Koala Alpha releases of Ubuntu Netbook Remix (UNR) and
I have never heard of Kuki Linux before watching this video on how to install it on the Acer Aspire One netbook. Kuki Linux is a lightweight Linux distribution
This video is a short demonstration of Linux Mint 7 (Gloria) with the XFCE interface running on an ASUS Eee PC 701SD netbook. Linux Mint XFCE is based on the
This video is a demo of Kubuntu 9.10 Alpha 3 netbook edition run from within VirtualBox. Karmic Koala Alpha 3 comes with the new KDE desktop environment (build
The recently released KDE 4.3, codename Caizen, looks great. Watching the Plasma netbook prototype preview a few weeks ago, and now this video by Jos Poortvliet
Plasma for KDE is one key technologies or pillars of KDE 4. Plasma provides the desktop user interface that includes the application launcher, the desktop and
Developers from the Interactive Computing Lab at ENAC (Ecole Nationale de l'Aviation Civile) in France collaborated with Linux kernel developers to provide
At COMPUTEX 2009 Taiwan based Linpus Technologies showcased its updated instant-on product and its Moblin V2 Linpus Linux Lite distribution with Linpus UI and
Thailand based NorhTec Corporation take the DIY Netbook concept one step further with their Gecko EduBook. To keep costs low the netbook can be shipped in
Nicolas from Tech Video Blog browses various Web sites on a Snapdragon-based netbook by Compal running Google Android in this video from COMPUTEX 2009.
Jolicloud, a new Ubuntu Linux based Internet operating system for netbooks now is officially in business. Jolicloud is described as an operating system that
This video is a screen recording of Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) running on an ASUS Eee 901. The video was recorded in full screen mode without
Are you sick off those daily rumors about an upcoming Apple netbook too? Would you buy the Mac Wood just because it consumes so little power?
These videos show Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) being booted on the ASUS Eee PC 900, Eee 901, and Eee 1000. The latest version of Ubuntu's
In these videos 2 employees of Skytone demonstrate the Alpha 680, which is likely to be the first netbook to be shipped with the Android mobile os.
Seamus Byrne and Ruslan Kogan himself take a look at the Kogan Agora Netbook in the Midnight Update studio. Seamus begins with a quick review of the netbook's
This is a very entertaining video by Fonero Martin Varsavsky, an Argentine/Spanish entrepreneur, who founded seven companies in the past 20 years. Martin
Another video from Sascha at the Linpus booth during CeBIT 2009 introducing Linpus QuickOS on an Acer Aspire One.
Linus Sebastian of NCIX Tech Tips briefly introduces LG's new X120 netbook, which is soon to be released. Some of the highlights of this device are the keyboard
Sascha Pallenberg of Germany's No.1 netbook news site demonstrates a new secret netbook at the Linpus booth of this year's computer expo CeBIT. The super slim
Shawn Powers of Linux Journal briefly introduces 9 Linux distributions in about 6 minutes. He starts with 5 tiny Linux distros, which are well suited for low
Linux Journal, Wired and other media report that Taiwanese computer manufacturer ASUS is developing a netbook running on Google's mobile operating system
Kevin Tofel of jkontherun takes a look at the new Linux based netbook operating system Moblin v2 (mobile Linux). He demonstrates the alpha version of Moblin v2
Easy Peasy, previously called Ubuntu Eee, is a Linux distribution for netbooks based on Ubuntu which makes use of the Netbook Remix interface. These two videos
This video by khanh demonstrates Final Fantasy VII being played on a basic ASUS Eee PC 701 running Xandros Linux without CPU overclocking or hardware upgrades.
This video demonstrates the Mobile Internet Experience software designed by Hewlett Packard to easily enable the mobile Internet user to access the most
I can't say how much time I spent playing Pirates on the Amiga but it sufficed to know any Caribbean city that appears in the game.
In his series of Acer Aspire One reviews YouTube user earthling10 not only did an in depth hardware review but also this extensive software review of the Linpus
This video review provides an in depth description, demonstration and evaluation of Acer Aspire One's hardware and it's capabilities. If you have any hardware
The ASUS Eee PC 900 in the video is running Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 with 1 GB RAM and 20 GB hard drive. It demonstrates how quickly applications such as GIMP or
Maybe Freddie Mercury would turn over in his grave hearing Queen's Mr. Fahrenheit Don't Stop me Now as the background music for a video demonstrating Firefox