After the Direct2Dell blog, Dell mini 10 “packs a punch,” but that is not in relation to the maximum allowed RAM. It turns out that the Mini 10 will be “fixed 1GB of RAM, which means that you can not decide to make it at a later date. The reason for the 1 GB on shipping through the Netbook licensing requirements that they are with Microsoft. This is understandable, but they are not required to determine the RAM.

Admittedly, Windows XP or Ubuntu for this question is (in most cases) well with 1 GB of RAM, but why limit you if you do not, especially if a RAM upgrade is so cheap nowadays. I upgrade my Eee PC 1000h with 2 GB of RAM for under $ 30. Personally, if you have a 10-inch Netbook, which is basically a large reason for the mini 10 and look to another manufacturer like Asus or Acer.

via Boing Boing

ARM’s Multi-Core Chip Sparrow was announced just last week, and Nokia is already working on the first compact mobile computer with a few blow-out data, Linux OS on this CPU. But not your hopes – this Nokia device is planned for 2011 release.
Eldar has to play with the first prototypes and is mighty interesting.

The design of the Nokia device Sparrow Netbook not the current trend of more half-way, with some resemblance to Nokia N800 Internet Tablet.

It will have multi-slide keyboard, with various layouts key shows you how to push them in different directions. The display pages in different directions for different functions – think Nokia N97 Tilt display.

The new Nokia-based computer has a very interesting keyboard with diamond-shaped, raised buttons inverted to each other. At first glance, it seems very uncomfortable – the buttons are quite small (about half as large as normal key), the device itself actually is quite small. But if you start thinking about it, it works very well. It is very difficult to meet several key with a finger, even on purpose.

The Nokia Sparrow computer has a novel, transparent widget-based interface. Each application gets its own semi-transparent widget to view its contents in. Several applications can be stored in memory “for months”. For example, when writing a document or e-mail, only with Swipe your finger across the screen and semi-transparent panels with active or pre-set applications and content pop-up. Select one and you can use it at once.

Well, it is now. I asked our Ilinca to some of the musings before. What with all the things in the translation is lost, and not really very exhaustive description of visual Eldar, I am sure it is quite far from reality

via Electronic Pulp

Gigabyte said it would show a trio of new netbooks at CeBIT this week, and all three are now out of their less than secretive whereabouts and their public debut.

While all three pack of more or less the same standard Netbook information, they differ somewhat from each other at the edges, with the M1022 “Booktop” particularly coming together with a fairly unique in that dock keeps the system vertically and you can monitor connector and your choice of peripherals.

The T1028 also things a step further by providing a tablet form, as you can see above, while the ThinNote s1024 keeps things a bit more simple with a thin, more business-design.

via engadget