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Photos: Eee PC 'Ultimate' S101 takes netbooks through puberty

Crave That, friends, suggests the machine will ship in a Linux guise. Yup, that's Linux, alright. Asus has decided the current Eee PC is a little too plasticky to be taken seriously by be-suited CEOs and will launch a swanky, seductive new Eee laptop...

23 September 2008, 15:39

Google Android: Beyond the mobile phone

Crave It also has plenty of customers, and to beef up its Android support services, Wind River acquired mobile Linux firm Mizi Research in August for a price it said could reach $16m. Wind River has years of experience with so-called embedded operating...

Tags: computing, embedded, river, operating system

23 September 2008, 10:59

Fit PC Slim: Smallest PC in the world (nearly)

Crave The Slim runs either Linux or Windows XP, but we'd opt for the former since the 500MHz AMD Geode LX800 isn't going to win any speed awards. Pricing for the Linux version with the above spec will cost you $295 (£160), while the XP model will set you...

Tags: linux, port, windows xp, wireless

19 September 2008, 16:18

Squeezebox: The world's best audio streamers, bar none

Crave They operate alongside fully open-source PC, Mac and Linux media server software, developed in-house by Slim Devices, and built on MySQL. If you like music and gadgets and haven't heard of Squeezebox music streamers, go and get yourself a brew...

Tags: logitech, talking, hardware, boom

18 September 2008, 11:33

Maplin minibook: Yet another netbook

Crave We also know the minibook uses a Linux-based operating system and includes word processing and spreadsheet applications courtesy of Open Office. It's been at least 24 hours since we saw a new netbook and -- being complete  Eee addicts -- we were...

Tags: open office, minibook, word processing, ram

18 September 2008, 11:21

Photos: Hands-on with the Dell Inspiron Mini 9

Crave Our American cousins can knock the price down by opting for a smaller hard drive, less RAM, no webcam or using Ubuntu Linux OS. We've known for some time that Dell was working on a netbook-style laptop -- the same kind of small, low-power...

4 September 2008, 16:53

Google Chrome: Hands-on with the polished new browser

Crave Plans call for Mac OS X and Linux versions in the near future. In its comic-book preannouncement of its new browser, Chrome, Google stated correctly that watching videos, chatting and even playing Web-based games didn't exist when browsers were...

Tags: tabs, javascript, beta, tab

3 September 2008, 11:04

Photos: Asus N50V laptop takes leaf from HP's book

Crave In the meantime, we've kept ourselves busy messing about with the limited, but still highly useful Express Gate Linux partition (see page 3 for more on this). At the top left, you'll see the power button, and next to that, the button for launching...

28 August 2008, 14:42

iPhone 3G vs Netbooks: Who's the mobile Internet daddy?

Crave If you're a serious Internet user with a need to copy and paste text, run a mulititude of Linux or Microsoft software and write long emails in comfort -- ie, do work -- we'd advise you to get a netbook.

5 August 2008, 15:13

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

Crave They're small, cheap, run Linux or Windows and are good for surfing the Who isn't getting into mini laptops these days? The latest rumour floating around is that Korean electronics giant LG has asked MSI to build it a tiny laptop based on Intel's...

Tags: lg electronics, lg, note, mini

24 July 2008, 10:31

Photos: Hands-on with the Sony Vaio FW Series (VGN-FW11ZU)

Crave Hitting this key allows you to instantly load up a Linux-based media playback utility from an isolated HDD partition, thereby eliminating the need to boot into Windows to just play music. Although we got some prime playing time with the laptop, we...

16 July 2008, 15:07

Eee PC 904: Netbook R-Eee-mix

Crave Inside, it'll ditch the new Intel Atom CPU in favour of the old 900MHz Pentium M that featured in the Eee PC 900.Other specs aren't confirmed, but we expect the 904 will use a standard hard drive -- possibly 80GB -- plus 1GB of RAM and a choice of...

Tags: inch, cpu, asus, chassis

8 July 2008, 11:57

Advent 4211: It's the MSI Wind, but cheaper

Crave Inside, you get a 1.6GHz N270 Intel Atom CPU, 1GB of RAM, a 1.3-megapixel webcam, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Windows XP -- no Linux option is available. Want an MSI Wind but can't afford the £320 asking price?

8 July 2008, 10:27

Asus Nova Lite: Bringing sexy back to Media Centers

Crave The Nova Lite is available with Linux, XP or Vista and should cost between £320-400 when it hits retail in late July. With the world anxiously awaiting the Asus Eee Box, it's all too easy to overlook the company's other small form factor PCs.

26 June 2008, 12:53

Photos: Eee PC 901 vs Acer Aspire One

Crave Acer and Asus' Linux distributions are both very good. But you also want the Acer Aspire One, don't you, you Internet-loving netbook fiend? We happen to have them both in the house, so we thought we'd stick them side by side and write a few words...

19 June 2008, 12:57