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Photos: Computex buzzes about mini laptops and their chips

Crave At Computex 2008 in Taipei, Taiwan, the biggest buzz is about the developing new market for mini laptops, sub-notebooks, 'netbooks' -- whatever you want to call them. Manufacturers are beginning to launch mini laptops based on Intel's Atom chip...

4 June 2008, 10:08

Asus Nova P20: Mac Mini mangler

Crave It's the latest in a line of alternatives to the Mac Mini and at first glance it ticks all the right boxes for a small form-factor PC: it's tiny, it's very, very quiet and it's not beige.You can position it in vertical or horizontal orientations...

Tags: intel, mini, asus, mac mini

24 January 2008, 11:43

Netbook showdown: The top 10 mini laptops rated

Crave Buy a Mini 9 with a Vodafone mobile broadband contract, or place your 3G SIM card in the slot beneath the battery, and the Internet is your oyster. The Mini 9 uses an Intel Atom N270 1.6GHz CPU and 1GB of RAM, so it's faster than the two previous...

31 October 2008, 9:06

Elonex webbook: Free mini laptop at Carphone Warehouse

Crave Just when you thought the mini laptop market couldn't get any more saturated, along comes Elonex with yet another miniature machine. No, it's not the Elonex One, which we reported on a few months ago, this one's an all-new gizmo called the Elonex...

Tags: elonex, wi fi, ship, eee pc

3 June 2008, 15:46

Apple quashes rumours of Mac Mini and iMac

Crave Reports surfaced yesterday that Apple was getting ready to release an updated version of the iMac and the Mac Mini next week. As Macworld's Jim Dalrymple points out, the iMac and Mac Mini seem overdue for a hardware update, making it quite...

Tags: mini, imac, lineup, macworld

4 November 2008, 10:12

Photos: Asus Lamborghini VX3 mini-bling laptop

Crave Mini, which weighs 1.68kg and has a 12.1-inch widescreen display. We're big fans of the Asus Lamborghini laptop range at Crave. Sure, some people think they make you look like a chav, but we happen to think they're gorgeous and offer great...

8 January 2008, 6:51

Win Things: Shuttle XPC mini X 100 and tech air laptop bags!

Crave Shuttle is known for its non-standard computer case designs and the XPC mini X 100 series is the smallest and sleekest range Shuttle has produced to date. Who says you don't get something for nothing?

Tags: air, tech, laptop, christmas

2 October 2006, 16:27

Formac Disk Mini 120GB: Jong-sized HD video transporter

Crave If you want to move projects around, you're going to need something like this pocket-sized Formac Disk Mini 120GB. We're hardened cynics in this arena -- victims of multiple hard disk failures, not to mention the flashbacks that still visit us...

Tags: disk, mini, firewire, visit

12 October 2006, 10:29

New netbooks: HP Mini 1000, Compaq 7000, Vivienne Tam edition

Crave The company recently unveiled the Mini 1000, the fashion-oriented Mini 1000 Vivienne Tam edition, and the slightly cheaper Compaq 700.Details are sketchy on the latter, but we can tell you about the Mini 1000 and Mini 1000 Vivienne Tam.

29 October 2008, 10:58

BMW unveils all-electric Mini E

Crave BMW has just taken the wraps off its new Mini E -- a battery-powered version of the iconic British German marque. Barring a new colour scheme and 'E' badges hinting at its power source, the exterior looks like the standard Mini Hatch.

21 October 2008, 11:53

Windows Mobile 6.1 and Opera Mini 4.1 unveiled

Crave Opera -- which has been at it for some time -- today announced Opera Mini 4.1. While it's not as fully featured as the extremely impressive-looking Opera Mobile 9.5, Opera Mini is one of our absolute favourite apps.

Tags: beta, mini, windows mobile, youtube

2 April 2008, 11:55

More mini laptops: LG netbook on its way from MSI?

Crave Who isn't getting into mini laptops these days? Those specs are closer to Hewlett-Packard's effort, the 2133 Mini-Note, released this spring, than MSI's much-talked about netbook, the Wind. The Mini-Note and the description of LG's potential entry...

Tags: lg electronics, lg, note, mini

24 July 2008, 9:31

Flying gadgets: PicooZ & Mini Bi-Plane in aerial assault

Crave We've already damaged eardrums with the USB guitar, so now we've decided to dive-bomb our workmates with the PicooZ Micro Helicopter (£24.95) and the Mini Bi-Plane (£24.99). The Mini Bi-Plane hurtles towards our hapless editorial team.

30 April 2007, 12:21

X-mini speakers: Tunnock's MP3 Cake

Crave Mini speakers are a dime a dozen these days, so we rarely give them any Crave loving. They're made by a company called Xm-i and are lovingly known as the X-mini speakers. Actually, there are two versions: the X-mini, a pair of stereo speakers that...

Tags: xm-i, stereo, mini, speakers

15 April 2008, 10:38

Miglia TVMax: Make your Mac Mini into a PVR

Crave Crave loves gadgets that plays nicely with the other kit we adore, and the TVMax sits so perfectly under a Mac Mini you could forget it was even there. We tuned in the analogue channels with the supplied mini-aerial as well as a roof aerial.

Tags: recording, channels, mini, box

27 December 2006, 9:02