I recently reviewed the Hewlett Packard (HP) Elitebook 8440w and loved it, so when I had the chance to look at the recently released HP Mini 5103 my thought was: ‘take the 8440w and shrink it to netbook dimensions and you have the PERFECT business netbook’! At first glance that seems to be exactly what [...]
Tag Archives: Netbooks
The Games Creators & Intel Crown ‘Games for Netbooks’ Winners
I have made clear my passion for playing games on netbooks through my Netbook Gamer series or reviews, but for the most part those have involved older games or smaller ‘indie’ games not designed to require heavy hardware. Many times I have heard people ask ‘where are the new games for netbooks’? The Game Creators [...]
Linux Netbook Review: ZaReason Terra HD Netbook
It’s been a couple of years since I reviewed a laptop from ZaReason, the UltraLap SR. Now I’m reviewing something a bit smaller — the ZaReason Terra HD. ZaReason is a different type computer company; every single computer they sell runs Linux, and they only ship Linux (or no operating system at all) on all [...]
MacBook Air 11-inch First Impressions
When Apple announced the new MacBook Air, I knew that I would be buying one. It looked to fix the issues that I had with the first one and fitted into my current situation better than my 13” MacBook Pro. I purchased the 13” MacBook Pro as soon as it came out. At the time [...]
Gear Deal- Lenovo IdeaPad U160 11.6″ ULV Core i5 Ultra-portable Laptop
We start the week with a Gear Deal on the 11.6″ ultra-portable Lenovo IdeaPad U160. The U160 weighs a mere 2.9 pounds and gets as thin as .9″. It features an Ambient Light Sensor, Active Protection System and data recovery tools. At first glance the U160 might appear to be a netbook but this small [...]
Backups and Recovery Are Your Friends…A Cautionary Tale!
A few weeks ago I made a really dumb mistake. One of those, “I have been a geek for far too long to forget this” kind of mistakes. The easy to avoid, harder to fix kind…what happened? Read on and find out. It all started during a discussion in the “back room” here at Gear [...]
The Netbook Gamer: Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura (2001, RPG)
Imagine a world in which the mythical creatures of the middle age mythology – elves, orcs, etc – were real, and that magic existed. Now imagine it is the 1880′s and the industrial revolution in in full swing, but causing a conflict with the worlds of magic and knights of honor. That is the setting [...]
The Netbook Gamer: Din’s Curse (PC/Mac RPG, 2010)
I have consistently sung the praises of Soldak Entertainment since their first game released in 2007, which they have earned by consistently serving the RPG community with well-made, fun and interesting games. The most recent release from Stephen Peeler and crew is Din’s Curse – but let’s take a quick look at their earlier releases. [...]
The Netbook Gamer: XIII (2003, FPS)
Wait – wasn’t XIII called out specifically in this article a couple of months ago? Yep – but through perseverance I managed to get it uninstalled and re-installed and properly running … so naturally I played it again and am here – well, quite frankly I’m here to stop you from bothering! XIII is one [...]
The Netbook Gamer: Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic (2003, RPG)
I made a big deal in my Neverwinter Nights Netbook Gamer about how that game had reignited my love for role-playing games after nearly a decade away. But I also mention that there was a reason I picked up Neverwinter Nights in the first place – I was enjoying the recent Star Wars games and [...]
Apple’s iPad Already Eating Netbooks’ Lunch … Or Is It?
I remember many years ago an impassioned speech from a new Director of Engineering about how a former colleague who had become a VP at a competitor said they were opening a manufacturing site in the US and were going to ‘eat our lunch’. And while the symbolism and tactics used were generally less effective [...]
5 Ways iPad is Better Than Netbook … and 5 Ways it is Worse
Prior to the release of the iPad, there were a multitude of articles – some touting 15 ways the iPad was better than a netbook, and others talking about the 42 ways the netbook was better than the iPad, and so on. As my Netbook Gamer series indicates, I am a netbook lover. I am [...]
KidComputers.com Introduces The Kids Classmate Netbook
As a father of 5 and 2 year old boys, I have been amazed at the ability for kids to learn how to use a computer. Both of my sons can pick up an iPhone, browse the pages for their favorite apps and play away. My five year old likes to sit in my lap [...]
The Netbook Gamer: FastCrawl (2006, RPG)
Got any plans for lunch hour? Let me show you one of the best dungeon crawlers you can start and finish before going back to work! It seemed that 2006 was the ‘year of the casual game’ … everyone was attributing the success of the DS and the allure of the Wii to the desire [...]
Is the ‘Netbook Era’ Drawing to a Close?
According to a report from CNET, an IDC report this week will show that sales of Intel’s Atom processor – which is dominant force in the netbook space – represent a smaller overall share of the company’s mobile processor space. The implication in the article is that since the Atom powers most netbooks, netbooks themselves [...]
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