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Ubuntu Eee Rebranded, now called Easy Peasy

Aldrin Cantos — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:46:30 +0000

This has been out a ‘decade’ ago, but I guess I just have to discuss about it over again because it just owns my heart. Ubuntu Eee Easy Peasy, is the new name, after some conflict with the original ‘Ubuntu’ distro. Like what I’ve said before, Ubuntu has all the rights when it comes to [...] Related posts:

Win Lenovo IdeaPad S10

Aldrin Cantos — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:50:30 +0000

Today is the day the 2nd “Jesus Look Alike” will take home a Lenovo IdeaPad S10. The first one was last year, with a better full blown laptop. Right now at Good Times With Mo, Magic 89.9, people are gathered on their most Jesus Look Alike costume and come judgement hour, one of them will take [...] Related posts:

Oh my blog is back

Aldrin Cantos — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:33:24 +0000

This blog was down last Saturday and was brought up just yesterday. The server had a serious problem, out of my control, and not sure what took it so long to revive it. How I wish there was a backup server that should have kept this blog and other blogs and sites hosted on the [...] No related posts.

Asus, a notch down to Acer, to step up in 2009

Aldrin Cantos — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:11:31 +0000

This week, Acer was announced the leading netbook in 3Q08 sales, leaving the whole big family of Eee PCs behind by approximately 8% on market shares. This was rather a milestone for Acer not just because they got to the top, but getting to the top with a single model released, in 4 different colors. [...] Related posts:

BenQ targets larger market share in 2009

Aldrin Cantos — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 02:47:15 +0000

If you’re a netbook manufacturer, what feature would you add to your netbook to make it stand out among the rest that will make customers change their mind and go for your product? Apparently, BenQ, a little late on the netbook category, wants their BenQ Joybook Lite to get a large global market share in 2009. [...] Related posts:

Netbooks Updates

Aldrin Cantos — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 06:06:37 +0000

Customizing Acer Aspire One GUI While Acer Aspire One already has its cool user interface out of the box, it seems it still not satisfy everyone’s palates, because someone exerted efforts discovering a way to customize it. The process involves modifying an xml file, which seems to be easy if you follow the steps that are [...] Related posts:

Eee Box B204/B206 = Excellent Home Computing and Entertainment

Aldrin Cantos — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:07:45 +0000

The original Eee Box B202 is roughly just a half-year old, while Mother Asus is about to give birth again for a new twin. The twins B204 and B206 are very much identical to their older sibling, having same processors and network features, etc., except that they also acquired an extra gene from their new father which makes [...] Related posts:

Eee Storage Service for Eee PC 701 series now available

Aldrin Cantos — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:18:04 +0000

I happened to pass by the Eee PC comparison site and noticed that there’s already a 10GB Eee Storage availble for Eee PC 701SD/701SDX. Don’t know how long this has been available but the Eee Storage Utility has been on the support site for months already. The service is still unavailable for Eee PC 4G [...] Related posts:

Netbook Updates

Aldrin Cantos — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 03:19:15 +0000

Netbook News Gigabyte, a company that specializes in motherboards, graphic accelerators, mobile and handheld communication devices has new plans in the coming year. The company has introduced a couple of Gigabyte netbooks in the last few months already, which stood out among other netbooks with its convertible-to-tablet design. DIGITIMES, one of the most reliable tachnology update [...] Related posts:

HP Mini 1000 ‘Hidden’ 3G module

Aldrin Cantos — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:17:42 +0000

The HP Mini 1000 is the 2nd netbook from HP which replaces the VIA processor from the previous 2133 and uses Intel Atom. It has SSD storage of 8GB/16GB, and 60GB HDD options. RAM is reduced to 512MB compared to previous 1GB. Lots of differences from the 2133 brother. Some are now surprised because it seems [...] Related posts:

Roll-up Mouse Pad + USB Hub + Speaker

Aldrin Cantos — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:21:48 +0000

I saw an interesting gadget a netbook must have, a Roll-up mousepad with USB hub and Speaker system. Gadget4all.com is selling it for only $22.00, very affordable for everyone. I already placed an order and the item is about to be shipped now. I am very excited for it and might as well give away [...] Related posts:

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MSI 3G Plans

Aldrin Cantos — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:58:43 +0000

MSI Wind U120 will be launched in the coming days, and while 3G module is expected, MSI is also going to negotiate with telecom providers to increase bundled sales. - Digitimes. Same has been tried before, bundling the netbooks with external broadband modem. In the Philippines, Globe and Smart Telecoms had different campaigns for Asus Eee [...] Related posts:

EPSON Endeavor Na01, newest netbook as of date

Aldrin Cantos — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:10:06 +0000

The newest company to jump into the netbook bandwagon is EPSON, with their first ever netbook, Endeavor Na01. The netbook packs a 10.2 inch screen, 1.6Ghz Intel Atom CPU, 1GB RAM, 160GB HDD, together with all other specs you see with other netbooks. Endeavor Na01 sells at 46,800 JPY, or $485 in US dollars. They also offer upgrade options [...] Related posts:

How To install Ubuntu 8.10 on Eee PC

Aldrin Cantos — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:34:45 +0000

Ubuntu 8.10 has been released recently, and if you feel you want to install it on your netbook already, Tombuntu has got you a very detailed instructions of how to install Ubuntu 8.10. In his case, an Eee PC 901, But it should basically work on other model as well. The instruction includes: Creating a Live USB [...] Related posts:

Lenovo IdeaPad S10 Design Contest

Aldrin Cantos — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:11:08 +0000

Lenovo is running a contest for their IdeaPad S10 netbook, and it was pretty easy to join. You just simply have to create your own skin design of Lenovo IdeaPad S10. To create your design is even simplier. Just logon to http://designs10.com/, choose the country you’re joining in, and start creating your design. There are 2 [...] Related posts: