Archive for April 30th, 2009

Netbook stand with built-in DVD super-multi drive

April 30th, 2009

Netbook stand with built-in DVD super-multi drive

If you have a Netbook, and you miss your movies to see or burning data to DVD, there are now solutions from Japan. A Tokyo-based company called Century has a Netbook, which are also known as DVD-Super Multi drive.The Nippon-only device supports DVD±R/+RW (8x), DVD±R DL/-RW (6x), DVD-RAM (5x) and CD-R/-RW (24x). Size at 260x190x19 mm, it weighs 524g and is equipped with two USB ports. The Panasonic Multi drive is compatible with Windows XP and Vista only.

The Netbook in Japan will stand by this Friday. Please contact the Japan Trend Shop, Gizmine, Geek Stuff 4 U, if you live outside of Nippon, and are interested in the device.

via gizmodo

PeeWee Portable Netbook For Kids

April 30th, 2009

PeeWee Portable Netbook For Kids

With a name like PeeWee, you can not expect that these rebadged Intel Classmate PC very child friendly. And you are wrong. Despite the low price this tough nut is ideal for the kids.First indications. It is a Netbook that is a 1.6 GHz Atom processor, which is coupled with a memory card reader, 60GB HD (this is very strange, PATA not SATA – Beware when buying upgrades) and 1GB of RAM.

The differences are a water-in keyboard and usually toughened outer and a rotating, flip-screen instructions to complete this in a tablet. And it is also the reason this works for children – they can scribble and draw with them as well as paper and, instead of their rubbish on the refrigerator, you can simply their life-long education in computer usage through the use of a hard drive crash “or” File corrupted “.

The PeeWee Kid also loaded with software. Unlike the usual sense of child-friendly, which really means low quality, feature-stripped junk an adult would not affect the PeeWee indeed appropriate software from Microsoft Works (though OpenOffice would be better), ArtRage 2, FBReader for e-books, and amazing Evernote for note-taking.

The only thing missing is Etch-a-Sketch.

From now available!

via jkontherun