Eee PC

We’ve been hearing a lot about Everex’s Cloudbook lately, but they’ve also been extending their reach into the realm of “mini pcs”, in the same vein as the Eee desktop PC. You might remember that Everex has been having some tricky luck lately, with the Cloudbook’s repeated delays, and their uber-low-cost gPC being removed from [...]

So it is true then- Microsoft announced Thursday that they would continue to sell Microsoft XP Home Edition, for “ultra low cost PCs”. By this of course we’re talking about low-cost PCs that generally have small screens, low-powered processors, and (like in the case of the Eee PC) sometimes flash hard-drives. Home Edition will be [...]

The new Asus Eee PC is already shipping with Windows XP, but it seems that the budding excitement over ultra portable laptops (now dubbed “Mobile Internet Devices” by Intel) has created a rather interesting position: with Windows XP licenses slated to go off the market on June 30 (extended from January), Microsoft has to decide [...]

Charles Cooper over at Cnet has written an interesting column remarking on the development of mobile devices.  With the Intel Developer Forum this week in Shanghai, China, he gets some feedback from Kevin Kahn, the director of the Communications Technology Lab at Intel. As Intel’s chipsets get smaller, and smaller, the race is on to [...]

Engadget appears to have gotten their hands on the specs for the new HP UMPC 2133.  It’s coming powered with a VIA CM-7 Processor, either 1.2 or 1.6 GHz, a 8.9″ screen, 120 or 160 GB hard drive, and either 1024 or 2048 667 MHz DDR2.  The price of the 2133 will range from $549 to $849 (depending [...]