Google is a big enough company to turn a head when they release a new line of products. This time the company is pulling the strings from behind rather than offering its own branded hardware for sale; ChromeOS netbooks are going to debut from Acer and Samsung in the first round, if you don’t count Kogan’s release of a domestic product to Australian (and UK) market. Netbook Material If I…

Friday is Netbook day as always. It’s the sixth installment of Netbook weekly if I’m counting right, of which the chance of happening is on its way to reaching zero. That aside, this week I’m going to tackle one of the most compelling reasons to go netbook. Even if not exclusively, a netbook is good to have if you’re a creative type person. Why? Find out by reading on.

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…

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.

A VGA output is often found on older desktop computer video cards and laptops. Netbooks lack the space to include the extra circuitry, which controls additional video connectors, so they often have this as the only option. What is it and what implications does it have regarding your options? The VGA out is an analogue, 15 pin connector. The analogue part means that it transmits signals as tiny variations on…

Can a netbook function as a primary computer? Most definitely but let me elaborate on that before you take your private jet to the closest computer store to get one. Why is it even an important question to begin with? Netbooks are well known to be limited in raw power and thus the list of applications they run at an acceptable speed, so why would anyone even want a netbook…

As much as I love mini notebook computers, they’re limited by their hardware setup. You’d have no trouble playing some of the simpler flash games, run the browser and the e-mail client without a hitch, but I highly doubt that a normal (read :n270 atom, intel GMA 950, 1GB ram) netbook will be able to run WoW. I had quite some time on my hands when I was still using…

There’s not much to say about netbooks these days, they seem to come in that many shapes and sizes and all you can decide if you want one, or couldn’t care less for a mini laptop. Fortunately there are some manufacturers that say no to the average boring design.