Netbook Buying Guide

Netbook Buying Guide - Yahoo! Shopping: "Netbooks are a relative newcomer to the world of portable computers. They sit comfortably at the opposite end of the spectrum from the 'desktop replacement' notebooks, those laptops with big screens, beefy specs and full-sized keyboards.

Netbooks sacrifice optical drives (CD/DVD drives) and have generally modest hardware specifications, smaller screen sizes and shrunken keyboards. They also tend toward smaller hard drive sizes ... oftentimes much, much smaller. What you get in return is a small PC that is truly ultra-portable, weighing less than two pounds in some cases. In other words, a netbook is an ideal travel companion."

Two-pound, $399 Touch Book boasts detachable display

Two-pound, $399 Touch Book boasts detachable display : Ben Patterson : Yahoo! Tech: "On display at this week's DEMO conference in California: The Touch Book, an 8.9-inch, ARM-powered netbook that morphs into a portable, touchscreen tablet, all for the bargain price of $399.

Gizmodo got a hands-on look at a rough prototype of Touch Book, designed by an outfit called Always Innovating and slated to ship in May or June.

At first glance, the always-on Touch Book ($399, or $299 for the display alone) looks like any number of netbooks we've seen making the rounds. Measuring 9.4 by 7 by 1.4 inches and weighing in at just two pounds, the device features an 8.9-inch, 1024 by 600-pixel display, and runs on a custom, Linux-based OS, although (as Gizmodo reports), Always Innovating says the Touch Book could be modified to run on Windows CE or even Google's mobile Android platform."

SHOW #63 - NerdBoyTV BROADCAST - SlyDial

In this episode of NerdBoyTV, Ryan Yee talks about a cool way to leave voice mail messages without actually having to talk to the person you're calling. It's called SlyDial.