Netbook friday is a day when netbooks are on the menu on the blog. Taking one step away from the usual “What is it good for” theme for a little, we’re diving into one of the main selling points of them; today’s topic is weight. Don’t worry, it’s just as important and at least as interesting as dissecting a netbook application would have been. Weight. Why does it keep coming…

It’s Royal Wedding today, which is a bank holdiay here in the UK, but that doesn’t stop me from following up on the What your Netbook is Good For Friday series. If I’m counting right, it should be the fourth episode, and it’s a wonderful occasion to get away from the usual ‘mobility’ trend that surrounds netbooks. Today I’m going to point out that you don’t have to be on…

Are you feeling insecure about where you go to have some good time with your digital belongings? Just you and your laptop, imagine having a few hours of quality time when you can work on your projects without being bothered.

Basically, it’s strong enough to play recent games at low to medium-low settings and native resolution. Portal 2, World of Warctaft, no issue there. If anything shoots any of the games in the leg it will be the processor itself, not the GPU.

Second episode of the weekly periodical ‘What Your Netbook is Good For Friday’ gives you another tip to make your netbook useful, or make you get one if you haven’t already. Smartphones get most of the office tasks done, but they’re not what you’d use to hack up a bunch of Excel spreadsheets and glue them back together. Why Netbook? First of all, it has a screen big enough for…

Acer has been on the netbook market since the middle of 2008. It can be said they were early adopters right after Asus had etched the new market for themselves. Ever since, Acer netbooks have been aimed at the typical netbook customer who doesn’t have much money to spend but would much prefer to get online. The D255 is interesting because it’s the second best selling model at the moment…

My girlfriend pointed me to the EEE transformer, made by Asus. I’ll repeat that so that I can properly emphasize the part where my girlfriend told me about the gadget. It hadn’t been on my radar at all before. It wasn’t something I could think about or consider purchasing, because I didn’t even know it existed. Asus has not gone out of their way to tell me about it. Are…

You most probably have a smartphone you take with you at all times. Most probably it’s either an android phone or an iPhone, so you have access to loads of apps and you have a way of getting online. The problem is the screen size in most cases. It’s not the most comfortable thing to use on the long run, but it gets things done. Netbooks have born to overcome…