Acer’s Aspire One series of netbooks have been pretty popular. They had recently released the Aspire One AOD250, which dual booted Google’s Android Operating system and had in the process become the first vendor to launch an android-based netbook. However, they found that the demand was less than what they expected it to be for the Android model.

Now Acer is…… [read more]

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Apple has the App Store, Android has the Android Market, Windows has the Windows Marketplace…and now it looks like Intel will have the Netbook App Store.

Intel has just released a  new beta SDK for Atom-powered netbooks.  The idea is to have enough applications built so that an Netbook store can be preinstalled on both Windows and Moblin systems in 2010.…… [read more]

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Our buddy Kamal over at gadgetmix decided to load up the Android x86 version on his Eee PC 701 to see how it ran. He said he was a little reluctant at first, because this OS was meant to be run on a mobile phone. He said it surprised him though because it ran flawlessly on his Eee, of course…… [read more]

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