Wishing All A Merry Christmas
Over the past month or so, we have shifted gears from primarily providing netbook news and information to searching and reporting on the best deals on netbooks. At times we became almost obsessive in keeping our price comparison charts current and relaying the best deals to you.
We had a lot of fun in doing this. [...]
Thank You For Your Loyalty
Over two month passed where I did not add or maintain the content on this site. Personal issues required that I devote my time elsewhere.
Once my personal crises had passed, I debated whether to resume posting to this site, or to start a new site, or to simply give up blogging.
When I checked the activity [...]
Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving to all!
After taking time off to address some personal issues, I am back to posting articles here.
My first order of duty is to so some basic site maintenance. I’m several versions of Wordpress in arrears, and I’m getting a nag notice that a security upgrade is strongly recommended. My administration panel tells me [...]
Netbooks Have Killed Off UMPCs
DeviceGuru has published an article titled “The UMPC is dead; long live the netbook!”
They do a great job of summarizing the origins and the unfulfilled promises of the UMPC. Concieved by Microsoft and Intel as part of Project Origami, these Ultra Mobile PCs never got much traction in the marketplace.
Selected quotes from the article:
“In the [...]
Site Design Updates
Over the past several weeks, we have been incrementally making design changes to the design of our site.
I realized last night that the site rendered fine on Firefox (which is what we use here); but the menus did not render properly for Internet Explorer users.
Please accept our apology.
As a result, we have uploaded a completely [...]
How ‘Bout Some Discussion?
My blog receives gets a good number of hits everyday. But comments are almost never posted by readers.
To encourage more of you to post comments, I have eliminated the requirements that you provide a name or an email address. So now you can post anonymously, if you prefer.
I’d love to get some banter going here.
You [...]
Netbook Buyers Guide - Work In Progress
You’ll see a new menu item on our masthead. It’s titled “Netbook Buyers Guide.” Right now, we’ve only completed work on the Acer Aspire One (Linux and Windows versions) and the Asus Eee PC 1000 and 1000H. We’ll be adding several more every day.
The Netbook Buyers Guide is designed to give potential buyers all the [...]
Netbook Price Comparison Guide
I thought, there must be a better way to find the best price. So, I built our Netbook Price Comparison Guide…
Ultra Low-Cost PC Scoop website launched!
Today is the official launch date for The Ultra Low-cost PC Scoop at www.ulpcs.com. This site specializes in providing information, breaking news and product reviews for ULPCs…