Rilakumma is a Japanese cartoon character, a cute yellow bear who likes to relax and eat mochi and donuts. Now, his face is plastered on the back of a new limited edition netbook made by toy company Bandai Namco. It’s about $800, and has 1 gig of memory, an Atom processor, and Windows XP. [ Product page via TokyoMango ]

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Japanese netbook looks like a teddy bear

This lovely sleeve, snugly accommodating a netbook, was made by mendicon ’s girlfriend for his Acer Apire One. [via Gizmodo ]

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NES Controller Netbook Sleeve

Database company Oracle is considering making its own netbook . [WSJ]

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Oracle wants piece of netbook pie

Illustrated by MacFormat’s Adam Benton, this mockup strikes me as convincingly conservative — but only if you accept the proposition that Apple would make it at all. I’ve been imagining something similar, but even smaller. The Apple Netbook [Mac Format] Rumor - Media Pad Could be Apple’s Newest Device Hit [Cult of Mac]

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Cupertino’s tablet netbook: just a concept?

Tired of G4 iBook performance wedded to all the quality that $250 buys? Brian X. Chen reports that after 6 months with a Hackintosh netbook (The MSI Wind, in his case) he’s had enough. I grew to despise the Wind’s dinky trackpad: Whoever designed it had in mind an infant’s hands; navigating became so tiresome that I started carrying around an external mouse to make it tolerable … Seeing as this netbook was hacked to run OS X, of course it didn’t work perfectly. I accepted that, and with some tweaks I got most software utilities working properly. But while I was traveling in Europe, my netbook’s Wi-Fi suddenly stopped working. The Airport utility simply wouldn’t light up. Chen’s issues are characteristic of running hacked OSX on junk hardware: it’s just as unreliable as running Windows on junk hardware! I could never get USB working right on my own hackintosh experiment, for example, even with USBfix. At TUAW, Steven Sande has a similar report on his hackintosh Mini 9 , but his problem is obviously with netbooks generally rather than netbooks running OSX: he devotes a lot of time to complaining about the keyboard, small SSD and 600-line display. Six Months With a Hackintosh Netbook: It Ain’t Pretty [Wired]

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Shocking reports: Netbook hackintoshes suck

Lenovo’s S10 is an excellent netbook that adds a useful extra to the usual mix: an ExpressCard expansion slot. Otherwise built around the standard loadout of 1.6GHz N270 Atom CPU, a gig of RAM, 10.2″ 600-line display and Windows XP, it comes with a 3- or 6-cell battery and is $350 at Amazon . There’s also a 4-in-1 card reader and a 160 GB hard drive. It is 9.8″ long, 7.2″ deep, and weights 2.6 lbs with the 3-cell. Particularly good is the keyboard, despite the right-shift key being to the right of the up arrow, and the quality of its squared-off construction. It’s attractive, if a little large compared to some competitors, and comes in unusual but conservative colors like indigo and burgundy. As reviews, it was bloatware-free and worked as well as anything we’ve tested in the category. It reportedly runs OSX well, making it a good choice for people who can’t wait for Apple’s expected netbook. Though recent netbooks have better specs, it’s easy to recommend the S10. With prices hitting the floor and the S10’s quality in every respect that matters (except for that damned shift key), it’s a good choice that embodies and upgrades an old agage: you’ll never get fired for buying Lenovo.

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Review: Just shy of 5 hours with Lenovo’s IdeaPad S10

The “Gdium Liberty 1000″ is an intriguing proposition: Slip in the custom “G-Key” flash drive in the bottom to fire up your own custom Linux desktop, making it possible to swap your personal work environment into any of the nearly disposable netbooks from Emtec that will never actually be littered around the landscape, as the netbook itself, according to the queen of all netbooks Joanna Stern, is sort of horrible . The keyboard is apparently pretty good, though, which would make typing run-on sentences easy. Although it won’t fit as clearly into a netbook, there’s always pen drive Linux .

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Emtec Gdium Liberty 1000 netbook reviewed (Verdict: Poor solution looking for a problem)

John at Eee-PC reviews the new edition of MSI’s Wind netbook, and finds that it runs for more than a day without recharging. The 9-cell battery has the MSI Wind U115 hybrid is coasting as much as 25:04:16 hours kept running! John’s putting it through a wider battery of tests right now. U115 MSI wind with 9 cell battery at idle: 25:04 hours! [Eee-PCvia Lilliputing ]

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New MSI Wind gets 25hrs on a charge, so long as you just stare at it

In the excitement of putting the website backend fires out yesterday, we missed a raft of new product announcements from Acer, including the ” AspireRevo “. It’s not just a ridiculous name, but instead a tiny desktop PC that is the first to use Nvidia’s Intel-irking Ion platform, which weds an Intel Atom CPU with a custom Nvidia graphics chip. That means the AspireRevo can not only handle decoding 1080p video and 7.1 audio, but will actually be able to run 3D games at a playable (if modest) speed. All that in a box that will probably cost around $300—once other manufacturers start using Ion, driving prices down. Hopefully it won’t be long before we start seeing the first netbooks with Ion inside, as well.

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Acer AspireRevo, a tiny PC powered by Nvidia Ion