Stephen Lim, general manager of Linpus Technologies, predicts a 50% share for netbooks by next year. Stephan Lim, that is not going to happen.

Linux had it’s chance when Asus launched it’s netbook. Industry experts content that Linux is making a big push on the netbooks market as the operating system requires less hardware processing power, perfect for netbooks. Linux did not fail, but Microsoft simply extended Windows XP life on netbooks and the tables quickly turned. Linux was left in the dust, a place they long occupied.

Stephen is a dreamer, and his dreams of Linux penetrating 50% of the market would remain a fantasy. The release of Windows 7 and it’s capacity to run on netbooks would simply continue the surge of netbooks together with the software giant.

You can read the article here — Linux netbooks expected to reach 50% market share.

Image from Lenovo products.

Rumors are circulating that Asus is almost ready with their own version of Apple’s MacBook Air netbook. Their own laptop would also feature a very thin computer  similar to the Air with 10” or less in screen size – the size category of netbooks as defined by Intel.

There is an ongoing explosion of netbooks and a thin version is going to be welcomed by consumers which should make Apple seriously consider creating their own netbooks lineup.

Source of image: Asus

You must have heard about the Asus Eee PC by now, the amazing little machine loved by all? Kind of like the Little PC that Could? Well, now you can use the My Cinema U3100 tuner to watch HDTV channels. Granted, it won’t display HDTV-quality pictures because the screen is only 800×480, but at least you know you can get TV on your Eee PC. Also a feature taken away is H.264 streams because there is no decoder on the Eee for H.264, but MPEG-2 streams will play. There is no recording feature, but with a maximum of 8GB SSD, we wouldn’t expect much TV to be saved on there.

Via [CrunchGear]