rockpapershotgun.com - 1/30/2009
—
Written by Kieron Gillen on January 29, 2009 at 1:40 pm. This is totally not an easy one to illustrate Or so say the RPS readers anyway. I wanted to do a follow up on the polls Jim ran a few weeks ago, highlighting the results and what they say about the state of the PC nation (in short: People ...
facebook.com - 2/2/2009
—
facebook.com —
Global Basic Info Type: Business - Marketing &
Advertising Description: Easy to learn, easy to work, easy
to play! Contact Info Email: Website: http://www.wepc.com/ Recent News GOOD NEWS! The Eee PC 1000HE will be available soon! Pre-order yours ...
(more)
The Official ASUS Eee PC Group
slashgear.com - 2/2/2009
—
slashgear.com —
ASUS have announced their latest netbook, the Eee
PC 1000HE complete with Intel’s Atom N280 processor. As
well as the 1.66GHz CPU and HD-capable Intel GD40 chipset, the 1000HE has a 10-inch LED-backlit display, 160GB hard-drive and WiFi b/g/n. ...
(more)
ASUS Eee PC 1000HE Atom N280 netbook up for preorder
Comments
Blog Reactions
Survey: 47% Of PC Game Purchases Are Digital [PC]
Kotaku —
... buying games solely from a retail store at a meagre 7%. Most alarming of all, however, is that after a little mathematics, the RPS team worked out that 47% of all PC game purchases in 2008 (at least among this survey group) were digital ones. You ever wonder why people like Valve and Direct2Drive never release sales data for their services? It's not because they're covering for how few sales they make. They're making sure they can keep that sweet, sweet honey pot all to themselves. PC Game Sales: 47% Of PC Purchases Are Digital [Rock Paper Shotgun]
Amazon quietly launches casual game downloads
Tech Digest —
... unannounced, Amazon has enabled a casual games download service in the States. It's got more than 600 available, each costs less than $10, and there's a try-before-you-buy service available to, where you can play a game for 30 minutes before you buy it. No sign of anything more hardcore, this is so far just limited to Bejewelled and the like, but if this is a sign of things to come then it could be the shot in the arm that PC gaming needs. Especially if recent figures suggesting that half of PC game purchases are digital is true. ...
Related Content
In Depth: The 5-step guide to fixing almost any PC problem
techradar.com 5/30/2009 — Troubleshooting is curious skill. It's part detective work, part methodical experimentation and part inspired guesswork, and part Zen Buddhism. That's a lot of parts but you need them all to be able to sift through a list of symptoms, identify the fault, work out an appropriate remedy and not ...
Windows on Netbook PCs: A Year in Review
windowsteamblog.com 4/4/2009 — It’s hard to believe it’s been a year since we first started to see netbook PCs running Windows come to market. Little did we know that these devices would evolve so much in such a short time. A year ago, they were Internet-centric devices defined ...
PC market growth expected to slow to a crawl in 2009
tgdaily.com 12/4/2008 — IDC updated its PC market forecast and there were few surprises and if
you have been following the industry and the general economic drama of
recent weeks you already know the bottom line. The full impact of the
credit crunch, downsizings and trimmed ...
Eee PC 1002H Shows Up at the Asus Site
eeepc.net 3/26/2009 — Asus has put up a product site for yet again another netbook in the 1000 series. This time is branded as the Eee PC 1002H. This is different from the previously announced Eee PC 1002HA folks, because the 1002HA is listed above the 1002H on the Asus ...
Press Release - prUS21725509
idc.com 3/5/2009 — PC Shipments To Drop 4.5% in 2009, According to IDC 05 Mar 2009 FRAMINGHAM, Mass., March 5, 2009 Worldwide PC shipments fell 1.9% in the fourth quarter of 2008 (4Q08) following five years of almost uninterrupted double-digit growth. As the economic ...
Asus Eee PC 1005HA review
liliputing.com 6/24/2009 —
The Asus Eee PC 1005HA netbook features an excellent balance of size and battery life. At a glance, the netbook looks virtually identical to the Eee PC 1008HA , but it’s both thicker and heavier. The added depth gives the 1005HA room ...
Asus launches the Eee PC 900SD, now with less storage
liliputing.com 12/31/2008 — Asus has quietly released a new model in the Eee PC 900 series. The Asus Eee PC 900SD looks a lot like the Eee PC 900 . Both have 8.9 inch displays and 900MHz Intel Celeron processors. But the 900SD comes with less storage, and a lower resolution ...
The Slow Death of Print: RIP PC Magazine
readwriteweb.com 11/19/2008 — PC Magazine , Ziff Davis ' flagship print publication, has announced that it will go 100% digital . The January 2008 issue will mark the end of PC Magazine's print edition after 27 years of continuous publication. Instead of the print version, PC ...
Online data shows netbook demand rocketing —
The Register 1/30/2009
Ten per cent of online buyers have one Ten per cent of online computer buyers now owns a netbook and almost 20 per cent of mobile PCs sought out by buyers in December 2008 was one of these mini-laptops.…
Follow TechBlips on Twitter
