Thinking of buy the latest Atom netbook or a new laptop or notebook or even a Dell or HP desktop?

If you can wait, WAIT because even with Comex giving great bargains, there are good reasons NOT to buy your computers this computer IT fair.. wait for Sitex its the 3rd week of  November 2009..

From Gizmodo : Stop! 5 Reasons to Wait on Buying That Laptop – Notebooks – Gizmodo.

There have been lots of mock ups circulating  around the net.. here are some of the better ones.

So when Nowhereelse.fr posted their pictures, it looks the most possible one of the lot. A nice 10 inch screen and the iphone/ipod touch look a-like button.

Rumours have it that the Apple tablet may act as a secondary display device or even as a Wacom type tablet for you to draw/use while connecting to your main Mac/PC ? [Actually there are programs out there that allow you to do this now. So it's not that difficult.. well, at least on the Windows platform!)

So here's what I hope the tabletPC like device would be...

1. Everything the iPod touch can do (Apps,games, photos/videos... of course music!)
2. Wifi enable (of course!)
3. Bluetooth enabled with  support for tethered modem usage and wireless music stream A2DP!
4. Read eBooks - PDF !!
5. at least 5 hours of battery life
6. Priced at USD$600 not more than US$800! -> with today's exchange rates it's about SGD$1000...

We’ll only know… when Apple takes on the TabletPC/Netbook market later this year, with their release of their.. Mac Book Touch? iPad? iTablet?…. (whatever!) haha

Bizgram is having a sale for their Gigabyte Cafe Book M912X.

The specifciations look pretty good too and the price is nice too! Just SGD$642.00

I don’t work or have any relations with Bizgram, just passing on the info.

However, they are open to getting business / bulk orders directly if you’re in Singapore or else where.

Here’s the link to the article.

I guess, this may be a wiser decision, since the multi-touch, GPS and digital tuner versions are still being tweaked.

There are other alternatives for those looking for a touch screen netbook.

Like the Gigabyte Touchnote T1028M and Gigabyte Cafe Book M912X.

Ever since my post on the Asus Eee PC T91 with multi-touch using Windows 7, I have been waiting for a chance to play the touchscreen netbook.

Is this going to be a replacement for my favourite HP TC1100, the tablet pc? Or, gasp!, a bigger more usable version of the Nokia N810?

So far, its been released in the UK for months and just last week for the US. There’s still no official word for Singapore or pricing yet. It’s retailing of US$499 for the basic set.

My first impression was how SMALL and light it is!

To give u a idea, I have a A5 sized notes folder and its just a little smaller than that!

This is prety much the standard set, not sure how close this is to the release final hardware, though it has a 30gb SSD (Solid State Drive) and a digital TV tuner, and NO multi-touch, NO Windows XP Tablet Edition, no GPS, no 3G circuit board.

As it came straight from Asus’s Taiwan factory and I have to return it, I will be trying to preserve the original Windows XP Home Edition, and install Windows 7 RC to put it through the paces.

Over the next few posts, I’ll share my experiences with the touch netbook.

Auto-hiding  the task bar helps you get back some viewing area,  just right click on your taskbar, click Properties and then check the “Auto-hide the taskbar” box.

Use a full screen web browser like Google’s Chrome or Hit F11 key to browse full screen on IE/Firefox.

If you use Office 2007, use Control+F1 keys to toggle between hiding the ribbion menu bar.

These tips will help to maximize what you view on screen and minimize scrolling on your netbook screen.

But I have been on the look out for something lighter and faster with multi touch. The Asus T91 Tablet Netbook, has been going around the tech circles for something but today, we discovered that with Windows 7, it comes with multi-touch!!

With these specifications… It doesn’t look to be cheap but it’s going to be a very useful all in one system. Let’s hope the battery lasts more than 5 hours.

Android was developed by Google based on the Linux open-source operating system, which allows modification of the source code to add functionality. Its use in a Netbook shows just how versatile and powerful the mobile operating system is.

This post from Google Groups show you how to install Android on a netbook but you should only do it if you clearly understand the process, fair warning has been given!