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This video by Waj Syed from MW Technology compares the Chromebook Pixel 2 with the latest version of the MacBook Pro.
This video by DetroitBORG gives you some good impressions of the new Chromebook Pixel LS from unboxing to naming the hardware components, comparing it with the predecessor, and demonstrating the software.
This is a short video of Robby Payne unboxing one of the latest Chromebooks out there, the Acer Chromebook 15 C910-C37P.
A video review of the Toshiba CB35-B3340 Chromebook 2 by Robby Payne of Chrome Unboxed.
In episode 1721 of hak5 host Darren explains what Crouton is, what chrooted environment means and how you can run Linux on a Chromebook.
This interview from Lon Seidman with an Acer representative provides some more detail on the upcoming Acer Chromebook 15, that is being showcased at CES 2015.
This video demonstrates game play on a Toshiba Chromebook 2 running Xubuntu via Crouton using the Steam In-Home Streaming technology.
Acer showcased this new Chromebook at CES 2015, which currently takes place in Las Vegas: the Acer Chromebook 15.
Unboxing and first impressions of the Toshiba CB35-B3340 Chromebook 2 by Chrome Unboxed.
A long video review of the high-specced Toshiba CB35-B3340 Chromebook 2 concluding that this is the best Chromebook released so far.
A short hands-on video of the upcoming Tegra K1 powered HP Chromebook 14 recored by Steve Paine at IFA 2014.
There are 2 main criticisms of Chromebooks in terms of hardware: too little RAM and low quality displays. An upcoming Chromebook that could fill this gap is the Toshiba Chromebook 2 CB30-B.
A video review of the Toshiba CB35 A3120 Chromebook done by Danny Stieben of makeuseof, who recommends to look for another 13.3 inch Chromebook instead.
A review of the Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga 11e Chromebook done by Kevin Purcell who evaluates it as the best Chromebook option for people who need a very durable device.
In this video Robby Payne of Chrome Unboxed reviews the ASUS C300, one of the first Chromebooks powered by an Intel Bay Trail processor.
In episode 136 of Before You Buy Leo Laporte reviewed the Lenovo N20p Chromebook. While Leo generally admires Chromebooks and Chrome OS, he is not particularly fond of this device.
In this video Robby Payne of Chrome Unboxed gets his hands on the new 13.3-inch ASUS C300 Chromebook.
In this video Robby Payne of Chrome Unboxed gets his hands on the 13.3-inch model of the new Samsung Chromebook 2.
This short video demos playing the shareware version of Doom on a Samsung Chromebook. It is a flash based game, which can be played while the Chromebook is offline.
The Samsung Product Support TV introduces Chrome OS and answers questions about the Samsung Chromebook 2.
This video presents a side-by-side comparison of the HP Chromebook 11 and the Acer C720.
This video gives first impressions of the upcoming Lenovo ThinkPad 11e Chromebook, which will be available as a clamshell-style notebook and as a Yoga-style convertible.
Students are certainly an interesting target audience for Chromebook vendors, but are Chromebooks interesting for students from their own perspective?
In this tutorial YouTuber Johnny Phung shows how to install Ubuntu Linux on an Acer C710 Chromebook with Coreboot flashed on it.
In this video Robby Payne of Chrome Unboxed compares the HP Chromebook 14 and the HP Chromebook 11. Performance-wise the 14-inch model is clearly the winner.
Brad Linder from Liliputing published an extensive review of the HP Chromebook 11. You can get the gist of it in his 10 minute video review.
This is a quick demo video of the touchscreen capabilities of Ubuntu 12.10 on an ASUS VivoBook X202E. When the video was created in late 2012, that was the newest version of Ubuntu.
Samsung recently announced the Chromebook 2 series of latops with higher specced hardware at a higher price.
These videos from the Computerphile channel show how to migrate an 8yr old Hacktop from Windows XP to Ubuntu 2012 LTS.
The kick-off video to the Chromebooks Clash series where YouTuber TechHarvest compares the Acer C710 to the Acer C720P Chromebook.
In this video tutorial YouTuber Johnny Phung shows how you can run other Linuxes than Chrome OS on Chromebooks using a software called crouton.
In this 5-minute video Tony Wang reviews the Toshiba CB35-A3120 Chromebook for the Before You Buy show on the TWiT Network.
A nice introductory video to Chrome OS from TechHarvest on YouTube, especially for people unfamiliar but interested in Google's operating system.
In this demo video Kevin Tofel of Gigaom shows how you can use Google's Chromebook Pixel with other Linux based operating systems than Chrome OS.
Yesterday I came across a post on Reddit about elementary OS or more exactly an article published by Wired where elementary OS was referred to as the Apple of
After ASUS and Acer followed other hardware manufacturers by discontinuing the production of those tiny laptops, netbooks were declared dead here and there.
The new Samsung Chromebook seems to be a huge success. It currently ranks first on Amazon's laptop best seller list and is temporarily out of stock.
Before the new Samsung Chromebook is even shipping, the first hands-on video by Kevin C. Tofel is already available. In his 12-minute review Kevin initially
The HP Mini 1000 was first released in late 2008. HP Mobile Internet (MIE), the original Linux based operating system it shipped with, was dropped by HP long
If you are a Linux user you've probably experienced hardware issues. Ever tried to work with a dual monitor setup for example? If you are a developer targeting
Whenever I see people tinkering with Linux like in this video, it is a confirmation that operating systems based on the Linux kernel are the most fascinating and fun to work with.
Right after the release of the new Chromebook Brad of Liliputing captured his initial impressions in this video. As with the 1st generation Samsung Chromebook
Before pulling out of the netbook market in the end of 2011, Dell was one of the few big computer manufacturers that offered netbooks with a pre-installed
This netbook by Sunlike, recently showcased at China Sourcing Fair, is powered by a 1.2GHz Boxchip A10 CPU, comes with 1GB RAM and runs Android.
The 1st generation of Samsung Chromebooks was released about a year ago, so it's high time for an updated model with improved specs, software and boot time,
The GoClever I102 is yet another example of a recent ARM based netbook running Android, specifically version 2.3 of the mobile operating system.
In the last post we have seen Android running on the Wabook EPC1029, a netbook powered by an ARM based Rockchip CPU.
This is a video for the tinkerers among you, which shows how to upgrade the built-in Realtek WiFi card of an MSI Wind U100 netbook to an draft N card,
Netbooks seem to be out of fashion but now and then a new device pops up, that fits into the netbook category, especially when tech exhibitions take place. One
Canonical has been working on bringing Android together with the Ubuntu desktop to create the killer app for multi-core phones in 2012 with both systems sharing
In this video Matt Hartley demonstrates Linux Mint 12 on an ASUS Eee PC 1005PE netbook. He shows how to boot the operating system from a live disk, introduces
The Acer AC700 Chromebook has been available for a while and finally we have the chance to watch a video with Nicole from Netbook News getting her hands on the
This short video, filmed at the Hong Kong Computer & Communications Festival 2011, shows some of the software features the Asus Eee PC X101 running a custom
If you consider buying a Samsung Series 5 Chrome OS laptop you should think about the peculiarities that go along with using an operating system that mainly
Here is a video featuring the brand new Samsung Series 5 Chromebook being unboxed and booted for the 1st time.
Besides the Asus Eee PC X101 also the Lenovo Ideapad S100 was showcased at the recent Computex running the MeeGo operating system. The long awaited Ideapad S100
There has been continued speculation about ASUS considering a Linux based operating system again for new netbook models. Google's Chrome and Android systems
Soon after the recent announcement of Samsung and Acer Chromebooks being released next month the Samsung Series 5 Chromebook was showcased at last week's final
Finally the Chromebook is official. After many rumors and speculations about Google's Chromebook the search giant today announced the first Chromebook.
This video by Charbax from ARMdevices features a mini laptop he spotted at the recent China Sourcing Fair in Hong Kong. The Chinese product is powered by a 1.2
Obviously it's not possible to cover all aspects of Linux and its past 20 years in a short video, but it highlights some important milestones.
Recently Fujitsu launched their first MeeGo based netbook, the Fujitsu LIFEBOOK MH330, in the Asia Pacific region and today Linpus Technologies announced that
At the recent Mobile World Congress 2011 in Barcelona the folks over at Netbook News spotted this 10.1-inch netbook by Russian PC maker DNS.
Here is another non-tablet device that Charbax from ARMdevices spotted at CES 2011.
If you follow the coverage of this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, you may conclude that it's all about the most promising iPad competitor or
JKK of jkkmobile chats with Warren Coles of Linpus at last month's Intel Developer Forum 2010 about the MeeGo based version of Linpus Linux Lite, demonstrated
Here's another video with impressions of the new Unity user interface in Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.10 showing the quite radical changes compared to the UI in
Ubuntu 10.10, code named Maverick Meerkat, was officially released today. You can take a quick look at the new Unity user interface of Ubuntu Netbook Edition in
One of the cool aspects of open source software is that it encourages people to tinker with and not just use it as intended. A result of such tinkering can be
Right after yesterday's Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.10 beta release anouncement we can take a quick look at the upcoming version in this video. Besides faster
I guess Jolicloud 1.0 is still being rolled out so not everyone with an installation had the chance to upgrade and see what the new version is like themselves.
As announced last week version 1.0 of Jolicloud is currently being rolled out to the users of the netbook operating system. Probably the most obvious change
This short video demoes touch support in Jolicloud 1.0 on the Samsung NB30 netbook. You get a sense of how to navigate and start applications as well as
Marco Martin posted a little how to on improving KDE Plasma Netbook performance and created this video to demonstrate the result of the configuration change he
Looking at the devices showcased at this year's COMPUTEX in Taipei it doesn't look like 2010 is the year for Linux on netbooks but rather the year of Android
We saw a preview of MeeGo for netbooks last month at the IDF 2010 and yesterday MeeGo v1.0 was released to the public. The 1st stable release of the
These 2 videos show how the search, launch, and newspaper features will look in the Plasma Netbook Shell of the upcoming KDE Software Compilation 4.5.
The new Jolicloud HTML5 launcher demoed in this 1st official video definitely looks slick and is another good reason to look forward to the final release of
In his keynote at this week's Ubuntu Developer Summit in Brussels, Belgium, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth unveiled Unity and Ubuntu Light. Ubuntu Light is a
This video shows the netbook edition of Ubuntu Lucid Lynx being booted on an HP 2133 Mini-Note netbook. There is hardly more to say except that the boot time is
We've seen a demo of the KDE Plasma Netbook shell running on an Asus Eee PC 1005HA before, but this time KDE developer Marco Martin got Plasma working
Two months after the announcement of the Meego operating system, the merger of the Moblin and Maemo platforms, version 1.0 of the Linux based OS was presented
These two videos show the SDL port of Quake and a free version of Doom being played on the Ben NanoNote pocket computer. They were created by TUXBRAIN
This short video shows Ubuntu Lucid Lynx Alpha 2 being booted on an Acer Aspire One D250 netbook in about 30 seconds.
This video by JKKmobile recorded at CeBIT 2010 gives us a taste of Linpus Linux Lite 1.3 running on an Acer Aspire One netbook. The new version of the Fedora
Today at CeBIT, Intel introduced the 4th generation of the classmate PC, a convertible 10-inch touchscreen mini laptop powered by an Intel Atom N450 processor.
Another video featuring the Chitech CT-PC89E, this time running the MID-LINUX operating system, which is pre-installed on the netbook. The operating system's
The Chitech CT-PC89E is a low-cost ARM-based netbook from China powered by a 667MHz Samsung S3C6410 processor.
Back in January at CES 2010 the MSI Wind U135 running SUSE Moblin attracted lots of attention and now at Mobile World Congress there shows up another MSI Wind.
In this video Chippy from Carrypad gets his hands on the Compaq Airlife 100 at Mobile World Congress 2010, which currently takes place in Barcelona, Spain.
MeeGo is an open source operating system hosted by the Linux Foundation that combines Intel's Moblin and Nokia's Maemo projects into a single platform for the
This video demos Full HD 1080p video playback on a Samsung N210 netbook with an Intel Atom N450 processor running Jolicloud. 4 weeks after adding Full HD
This video features products from Hivision showcased at CES 2010, including the PWS700B and PWS700BA Linux netbooks, as well as an MID with Windows CE, and an
Samsung showcased a large number of netbooks at CES 2010, but according to Ars Technica there was one netbook that attracted the most attention, the Samsung
The openSUSE project was one of the early adopters of Moblin and now we can see the result of mixing SUSE Linux and Moblin on the upcoming MSI Wind U135
As announced yesterday on Twitter there will soon be an update for Jolicloud that adds support for NVIDIA ION graphics processors.
In terms of hardware and software user interface design the litl webbook is one of the most innovative netbook-style computers released in 2009. The convertible
This is a short demo of Linux Mint 8 running on the Gecko Edubook. For a full-blown OS like Linux Mint, which required 8.5GB disk space in the example
This video created by developers from the Interactive Computing Lab at ENAC demonstrates interaction with existing Linux applications in Fedora 12 via
Today mobile computing expert and Web entrepreneur Sascha Pallenberg shared his netbook market trend predictions for 2010 in this video. Sascha predicts that
After months of private alpha testing Tariq Krim, founder and CEO of Jolicloud, announced the launch of the publicly available pre-beta of the Linux based
xPUD is to Firefox what Chrome OS is to Chrome. It is a trimmed-down Linux distribution for netbooks that mainly consists of a Web browser and a media player.
In this video Marina from Marina's Bloggariffic reviews Ubuntu Netbook Remix Karmic Koala on her Lenovo Ideapad S10 netbook.
Arnaud Laprévote, CTO & Head of Research Projects at Mandriva, and Aaron J. Seigo, KDE developer and KDE Foundation member, are interviewed by Charbax.
Sugar on a Stick is a Live Linux distribution that can be loaded onto any flash drive with at least 1GB storage capacity to boot the child-friendly Sugar
Hak5 Technolust is a tech show covering topics like network security, open source, and DIY modding. In episode 615, the 1st and certainly not the last I
Mozilla Prism is an application for integrating web applications with the desktop. Web apps created with Prism can be accessed like any other desktop
There is not much more to say about this video, except that it shows the recently released Pre-Beta of Jolicloud being booted on an ASUS Eee PC 901 in about 13
About a year from now Chrome OS is expected to be ready for consumer use. Whether it will ship on netbooks as the primary operating system, as an additional
Last week's release announcement of the open source Chromium OS project generated a lot of buzz on the Web. Whether Google's Chrome operating system, that is
This video is a brief demonstration of the KDE Plasma netbook interface running on an Asus Eee PC 1005HA. We get an impression of the widget based desktop with
Doug Aamoth of CrunchGear and litl CEO John Chuang recorded this video walkthrough of the litl webbook and OS talking about the design philosophy behind this
2 days ago we saw the release of Moblin v2.1 which comes with several new features and user requested improvements, such as enhanced browser functionality.
TINT is a clone of the venerable Tetris game, that you play inside your Linux terminal as shown in this video by Luis.
Yesterday Mandriva Linux 2010 was released. The latest version, code named Adelie, introduces a new technology called Smart desktop that is task oriented and
This video is a short demonstration of the free multiplayer first person shooter Urban Terror being played on System76's Starling netbook. The netbook which
Jolicloud is a very promising Ubuntu based netbook distro with a focus on Web based applications and social networks. In this video Peter of Netbooked takes a
xPUD is a very fast and lightweight Linux distro with a simple user interface. It mainly consists of a Web browser and a media player. On average xPUD boots in
At the end of September the Intel Developer Forum 2009 took place in San Francisco, an event where Intel introduces new hardware and software technolgies and
The 3 new versions of Linpus Linux Lite demonstrated in this video from Mid Moves recorded at the Intel Developer Forum 2009 look pretty awesome.
wattOS is a lightweight Ubuntu based Linux distro designed to run on low power computers and recycled systems. The main goal of the project is to create a full
The Skytone Alpha 680 is the first netbook running Google's Android operating system.
The PC-Z1 NetWalker by Japanese electronics manufacturer Sharp is a mini-netbook with a 5-inch touchscreen (1024x600px) display that runs Ubuntu 9.04.
Gregoire Gentil, founder of Always Innovating, personally demonstrates the Touch Book, a device that combines netbook and touchscreen tablet. In the 1st video
I tried several operating system on the HP Mini 1000 netbook during the past months, inlcuding Karmic Koala Alpha releases of Ubuntu Netbook Remix (UNR) and
SUSE Studio is a new Web based service for creating Linux appliances based on openSUSE, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. It
The LEGO netbook is a low power consuming and energy efficient netbook. It is extremely robust and can be disassembled and reassembled without a known limit.
I just came across this remarkable video via a tweet by planetshaker76 who suspects a viral marketing campaign of MSI. He's right. MSI currently runs a video
This video is a short demonstration of Linux Mint 7 (Gloria) with the XFCE interface running on an ASUS Eee PC 701SD netbook. Linux Mint XFCE is based on the
This video is a demo of Kubuntu 9.10 Alpha 3 netbook edition run from within VirtualBox. Karmic Koala Alpha 3 comes with the new KDE desktop environment (build
In this video tutorial the Too Smart Guys walk through the process of installing Mac OS X 10.5 on a pink Dell Mini 9 netbook. Personally, I don't see a point in
Plasma for KDE is one key technologies or pillars of KDE 4. Plasma provides the desktop user interface that includes the application launcher, the desktop and
Developers from the Interactive Computing Lab at ENAC (Ecole Nationale de l'Aviation Civile) in France collaborated with Linux kernel developers to provide
Today's announcement of Google Chrome OS hit the news hard. Google is working on a new lightweight operating system built on top of the Linux kernel, that will
At COMPUTEX 2009 Taiwan based Linpus Technologies showcased its updated instant-on product and its Moblin V2 Linpus Linux Lite distribution with Linpus UI and
In this screencast I show how to install and enable the PHP programming language on the HP Mini Mi from the terminal with just 3 commands.
Thailand based NorhTec Corporation take the DIY Netbook concept one step further with their Gecko EduBook. To keep costs low the netbook can be shipped in
GNB showcased this netbook reviewed by Sascha for Netbook News at COMPUTEX 2009.
The Mtube II is a combination of netbook and tablet PC running Windows XP in netbook and Google Android in tablet mode. Apart from the unfortunate netbook
Nicolas from Tech Video Blog browses various Web sites on a Snapdragon-based netbook by Compal running Google Android in this video from COMPUTEX 2009.
At last week's JavaOne conference held in San Francisco Oracle CEO Larry Ellison talked about the future of Java in this keynote Q&A together with Scott
Sascha reports from Freescale headquarters in Taipei, taking a first look at the Pegatron netbook, a very thin and light laptop with an estimated weight of 800
Low-end ARM-based netbooks or Smartbooks seem to be a hot trend at COMPUTEX 2009. The Wistron N900z is one such device powered by Freescale's i.MX515 multimedia
2 days ago Linpus announced to showcase Moblin Version 2 of their Linpus Linux Lite distribution for netbooks at COMPUTEX 2009 in Taipei.
Yet another video from busy Sascha at COMPUTEX 2009 getting his hands on the ECS T800 Netbook that will run the Linux based Android operating system.
Jolicloud, a new Ubuntu Linux based Internet operating system for netbooks now is officially in business. Jolicloud is described as an operating system that
Whether a mobile computer with a 11.6 inch screen is still a netbook or rather a subnotebook is a question one can argue or just don't care about.
Daniel Tsou from Singapore's Gadget Podcast Tech65 takes a detailed first look at the HP Mini 110 netbook in this video recorded live at HP's Touch The Future
This video tour takes a closer look at the user interface of the new Moblin version released today. The tour starts on the home screen called m_zone, which
Moblin version 2.0 beta was released today and can be downloaded from the Moblin website. Moblin which is a blending of Mobile Linux is a Linux distro optimized
Are you sick off those daily rumors about an upcoming Apple netbook too? Would you buy the Mac Wood just because it consumes so little power?
These videos show Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) being booted on the ASUS Eee PC 900, Eee 901, and Eee 1000. The latest version of Ubuntu's
In these videos 2 employees of Skytone demonstrate the Alpha 680, which is likely to be the first netbook to be shipped with the Android mobile os.
About 10 million netbooks were sold in 2008. 20 million netbooks are predicted to be sold in 2009. In this presentation Tim Bajarin, president of Creative
Fon founder Martin Varsavsky explains why the MSI Wind is the only computer bundled to with the Fonera 2.0 WiFi router comparing the Wind to an ASUS Eee PC
Seamus Byrne and Ruslan Kogan himself take a look at the Kogan Agora Netbook in the Midnight Update studio. Seamus begins with a quick review of the netbook's
At this year's FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting) Stefan Seyfried, who works on the openSUSE Linux distribution, gave this talk
This is a very entertaining video by Fonero Martin Varsavsky, an Argentine/Spanish entrepreneur, who founded seven companies in the past 20 years. Martin
Last Monday Linus Torvalds did a commit to replace the Linux mascot Tux with Tuz in the Linux kernel version 2.6.29. Tuz will be the mascot in this release to
Every time I browse news on Linux I come across headlines implying that war is going on between Linux and Windows. This always leaves me a bit puzzled as most
Another video from Sascha at the Linpus booth during CeBIT 2009 introducing Linpus QuickOS on an Acer Aspire One.
Linus Sebastian of NCIX Tech Tips briefly introduces LG's new X120 netbook, which is soon to be released. Some of the highlights of this device are the keyboard
Sascha Pallenberg of Germany's No.1 netbook news site demonstrates a new secret netbook at the Linpus booth of this year's computer expo CeBIT. The super slim
Shawn Powers of Linux Journal briefly introduces 9 Linux distributions in about 6 minutes. He starts with 5 tiny Linux distros, which are well suited for low
One of the things that striked me when first reading about the Mobile Internet Experience software was that the Linux command line interface is disabled on the
Linux Journal, Wired and other media report that Taiwanese computer manufacturer ASUS is developing a netbook running on Google's mobile operating system
Kevin Tofel of jkontherun takes a look at the new Linux based netbook operating system Moblin v2 (mobile Linux). He demonstrates the alpha version of Moblin v2
Easy Peasy, previously called Ubuntu Eee, is a Linux distribution for netbooks based on Ubuntu which makes use of the Netbook Remix interface. These two videos
This video by khanh demonstrates Final Fantasy VII being played on a basic ASUS Eee PC 701 running Xandros Linux without CPU overclocking or hardware upgrades.
This video demonstrates the Mobile Internet Experience software designed by Hewlett Packard to easily enable the mobile Internet user to access the most
One of the first things Doug Aamoth recommends in his video tutorial on how to add 1 GB of RAM to the Acer Aspire One is to not try this at home. If you still
I can't say how much time I spent playing Pirates on the Amiga but it sufficed to know any Caribbean city that appears in the game.
This video review by Dell introduces their Inspiron Mini 9 netbook that was released mid September 2008. The second largest computer manufacturer created a mini
The ASUS Eee PC 900 in the video is running Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 with 1 GB RAM and 20 GB hard drive. It demonstrates how quickly applications such as GIMP or
In the video two ASUS Eee PC 900 netbooks are first booted, then Firefox is launched, and finally they are shutdown. One has been running Xandros Linux and the
Jose Fermoso and Dylan Tweney who are editors for the popular Wired Magazine review the Sylvania g Netbook Meso after a comparison of the new iPod Nano and
Maybe Freddie Mercury would turn over in his grave hearing Queen's Mr. Fahrenheit Don't Stop me Now as the background music for a video demonstrating Firefox
A video tour of Acer Aspire One's Linpus Linux Lite desktop interface. You can see how easy it is to access the applications linked from the desktop that is
In this video 3 Intel Atom powered netbooks are compared based on dimensions and keyboards: MSI Wind, ASUS Eee PC 901 and Acer Aspire One. The MSI Wind has a
Geri Druckman of Linux Journal reviews the Acer Aspire One netbook. Geri first explains the available ports for connecting other devices. One thing Geri
Linux Journal's Shawn Powers is not only impressed with the screen resolution of the HP 2133 Mini-Note in his video review of Hewlett-Packards netbook, but also
With about 14 minutes length this comprehensive video review demonstrates what you can do with the Asus Eee PC 901 running Xandros Linux: play games, watch
