When you look at a random netbook, chances are its processor is going to be in the Intel Atom family. AMD are starting to slowly take ground in this market though, as they’ve announced an upcoming netbook-targeted processor.

Toshiba has announced that it is developing tablets of its own in the same category that has been established by the iPad. This is not surprising considering that after Apple’s iPad announcement, every gadget company out there  want to bring out tablet devices to get a piece of thepie. Now ARM is also announcing that they are expecting upto 50 tablets based on their processors this year alone. Toshiba’s US notebook lead, Jeff Barney indicates they would have a line of devices to be ready later this year or in early 2011.

MSI unveiled its Wind12 line of AMD ultraportable notebooks a few months back, and the original U230 was shown in a video back in November 2009. Now they have unveiled their next generation 12-inch netbooks, in the form of the Wind12 U230-033 and U230-040. The new models come packed with a larger screen and more computing power. Both come preloaded with Windows 7 Home Premium and 12.1 inch 1366×768 ( WXGA ) display. The U230-033 will be priced at $429.99 and the higher-end model U230-040 at $479.99.

At the latest CeBIT trade show in Germany, Gigabyte certainly had a lot to show, and one of the things they displayed was the new Q1000C Netbook. It doesn’t immediately strike as anything special, but its hardware components are quite nicely picked for this price.

The netbook market is set to roll out the red carpet for the new Asus EEE PC 1005PR. Asus is brining in the new device to all netbook enthusiasts with the promise of a new feature called Super Hybrid Technology, which offers an astoundingly good battery life of 11 hours under normal usage.

HP Slate , what is supposed to be the most probably competitor to Apple’s iPad was demoed here today at a rock concert, showing off Flash capability and running on Windows 7. We had seen it first when Steve Ballmer was waving it around at CES. Now a cool video has come out from Adobe showing off its Flash-compatibility as well as other features.

The black and gold netbook you all have been waiting for, is currently turning a rage in the US. We are talking of the MSI Wind U160 netbook that is now on sale. Online retailers Newegg and Buy.com have put it up on their ‘now-shipping’ list and buyers are flocking to these online destinations for a taste of their stuff.

I wouldn’t buy something just based on its looks. I would rather get a drab-looking speed-demon of a gadget rather than some flashy gadget that doesn’t really do well in the specs department. But not everyone is like that. Many, usually females, go for gadgets not based on their specifications but based on their looks. It seems like HP wants to reach these people too. They have come out with a new designer version of their netbook, the HP Mini 210, designed by Vivienne Tam.

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Sony has tried its hand at the Vaio M nomenclature before and it was a PC badge that existed for a while back in 2004 and it seems that Sony isn’t done with the dubbing yet. The Vaio M badging has surfaced again after a gap of 6 years and it is not for a new Sony notebook but a netbook that replaces the recently updated Sony Vaio W netbook series.

As per the leaked details, there isn’t much that separates the Vaio M from the Vaio W lineage and it is just the designing which gets altered along with a new name of course. On the inside, Vaio M gets the 1.66GHz Pine Trail-era Atom, 1GB of RAM and 250GB hard drive combo all of which is integrated in the latest W series.

Acer had shown off their Aspire One 532G netbook touting NVIDIA’s Ion 2 chipset at the MWC 2010 last month. They hadn’t at that time given any clue as to how much it would cost. Well, they decided to do that today at their CeBit 2010 press conference. The 10-inch netbook will cost €379 ($516) once it hits the stores.