Eee PC

It’s long been the bane of those who have notebooks and netbooks carrying the open-source OS that it’s always one-upped by Windows users, especially in hardware support. One of those things Linux users do not enjoy is out of the box multitouch support even if their device has it when it runs Windows. They’re missing [...]

User raven_of_1985 from the EeeUser forums just cured his tablet itch. He picked up an Eee 701 and implanted a touchscreen kit to turn it into a low-cost slate. Right not it runs on Xandros if I’m not mistaken but he’s looking for a decent touchscreen app (or possibly turn to Windows XP) to make [...]

Taking their share of the limelight at the ongoing Computex 2009 in Taipei is Xandros with their demonstration of the Moblin V2 OS made specifically for Intel Atom-based netbooks such as the Eee PC. Moblin V2 will allows further customization of Internet, media, social networking and graphics capabilities of the Eee PC. Some notable enhancements [...]

Freescale Semiconductor has announced plans to launch its very own Android-powered netbooks in the second quarter of 2009. These netbooks, projected to cost only about $100 (as opposed to the usual $200 cost of other netbooks), will be shipped primarily with Wi-Fi and without wireless 3G connectivity, according to a report on Reuters. I know, [...]