The Asus Eee PC 1000HE was very well-received when it first came out.  However, most reviewers only get to spend a few weeks with a device.  That is just barely enough time to become accustomed to a device.
I have spent the past two months using the Eee PC 1000HE almost every day.  Now, I am finally ready to report my findings.

The already crowded laptop market has recently seen a new class of entrants.  The new products belong to a segment called budget thin-and-lights, or CULV (consumer ultra-low voltage) laptops if you listen to Intel.  Meant to sit between the super low-price netbooks and high-dollar ultraportables, like the MacBook Air, these new notebooks (which lack optical drives) are aimed at students and frequent travelers who want an affordable and light laptop, but need something more full-sized and full-powered than a netbook.

In the days before netbooks, the marketplace for affordable, portable computing was small and bleak.  One of the few bright spots was AlphaSmart, which made a few devices which were basically new-age typewriters.  Read on to find out about the Neo and the Palm OS-powered Dana.

Once again, the macles* blog has revealed a new Acer Aspire One.  This new netbook will be Acer’s biggest yet.

Today, some official pictures emerged of the Pocket Yoga concept from Lenovo.  Apparently, the device is actually a two-year old design study, but it’s still awesome nontheless.

Larry Ellison, the co-founder and CEO of Oracle, indeed saw this whole netbook/nettop trend coming, 8 years too soon.  In 2000, Ellison thought the time was right for a PC replacement that could access the internet and do little else.  He imagined that all work would be done in the browser and data would be stored on servers somewhere [in the cloud].  Sound familiar?

Already forgotten by most people, the Foleo was Palm’s stillborn failure to expand beyond smartphones.  Ironically enough, if Palm had produced the Foleo, it would have been ahead of the curve on the forthcoming netbook trend.  With a few changes, the Foleo could be very successful in the current marketplace.

The Always Innovating Touch Book has many people in the technology business excited, including us.  However, the idea of a tablet that docks onto a keyboard is not as groundbreaking as it first seems.  Case in point, I present you the Compaq TC1000 Tablet PC and its successor the HP Compaq TC1100.

Today, Always Innovating sure lived up to its name by announcing the Touch Book, a novel take on both tablet PCs and netbooks.

Here are some photos of Acer’s supposed new Aspire One.  This version looks to be slimmer than the current 10″ model, perhaps taking a note from the Asus S101.