China is making its way through the hard and harsh netbook world thanks to its cheap, world’s thinnest netbook called CZC 09. In fact, it is 50 mm thin and weights 750 grams!

Other features include:

• an ARM11 based CPU.
• The screen is 8.9 inch and the resolution is set at 1024*600.
• 1GB of RAM
• 8GB of SSD.
• 2 USB ports.
• Li-ion battery which lets you use the netbook for about 6-9 hours.
• It comes with a customized version of Linux.

The price of the CZC 09 is set at about $220. I don’t know if it will ever be sold outside China

The new MSI Wind U110 ECO may not have all the bells and whistles of the other Netbooks we have mentioned lately but it does have a whopping battery life of around 13+ hours. Now that’s pretty impressive. It also weighs only 3.2 pounds, features the Intel Atom Processor Z530 (1.60GHz), a 160GB HDD and a 10” backlit LCD with a 1024×600 resolution, high definition web cam, 2 speakers, built-in mic, and Bluetooth. You’ll be able to Tweet and Facebook all day long. The MSi Wind U110 is available now and retails for $429.99.

Nokia announced the Nokia Booklet 3G mini-laptop almost a week ago, and today at the Nokia World 09, the detailed specifications of the device along with its pricing have been announced by Nokia.

As much as you would love the design and specifications of this little guy, the pricing is something that would make you pretend that you change your plans (in case you even thought of buying one in the first place).

First the specifications in detail:

• CPU and OS: Intel Atom 1.6 Ghz, Windows 7.
• Display size: 10.1 inch, 1280×720 pixels, Glass window.
• Battery Life: 16 cell battery with 12 hours of full-charged life.
• Memory and Storage: 1GB DDR2 RAM with 120GB HDD.
• Design and Color: Comes in three colors namely Black, White and Azure.
• Connectivity: In-built WLan, also supports 3G data connections.
• Nokia Services: Ovi Suite 2.0, Nokia Music for PC, Ovi Maps and Social Hub.
• Other: GPS, 1.3 megapixel front-facing camera with microphone and Accelerometer.

As for the pricing, the Nokia Booklet 3G will cost around at 575 Euros which makes it equal to $820 USD approximately. Perhaps the price is the actual reason why Nokia doesn’t want to label it as a Netbook.

Some users believe that Windows is the best netbook OS. But others – such as Jack Wallen – think Linux is a much better fit. Check out his reasons and see if you agree.

I’ve read countless Microsoft-funded “studies” trying to persuade me that Windows is already dominating the netbook space. According to these studies, Linux might as well just take a curtain call because its act is over in the world of netbooks. That is simply not true. If it were, Asus wouldn’t be selling netbooks with Linux preinstalled.

Linux is not going anywhere but up in the netbook market. Here are 10 reasons why I can say that.

1: Netbook hardware is the perfect match for Linux

One of the biggest arguments people use for Windows over Linux is that “You can’t play games with Linux.” Well, guess what? You can’t play games on a netbook (outside of Web-based games). And there are tons of other software types you can’t (or won’t) use on a netbook. No Photoshop, no Quark, and none of those proprietary apps that people seem to need to do their day-to-day business. Nope. Netbooks serve a small purpose — to let you get online — and they do it well.

Linux is the perfect networking operating system. It plays well with other OSes, it’s secure, and it’s fast. But one thing any purchaser of a netbook should know is that space is prime. Although a fresh installation of Eeebuntu might take up nearly 2.8 gigs, you can quickly trim that down using the Synaptic package manager by removing the applications you won’t be using. Windows XP with SP 2 takes up 2.5 gigs of space so the tradeoff there is minimal.

2: Netbooks require a secure OS

If you are using Windows XP on an ultra portable piece of hardware, you are a mobile risk for viruses. And you won’t be installing Norton’s or McAfee on your Netbook — especially if you are using a flash-based storage netbook. With Linux, you won’t need those tools in the first place. Your Linux-based netbook can travel anywhere you want and you won’t have to worry about picking up viruses or spyware like you would with a Windows-based netbook.

3: It’s all about the interface

If you have limited screen real estate, why not use a desktop interface designed for that real estate? Instead of using the standard desktop metaphor, the Eeebuntu Netbook Remix desktop introduces an interface that is perfectly suited for the desktop size offered by netbooks. This interface makes the netbook experience far more efficient than any Windows interface. Sure, it’s not what you’re used to. But it’s cleaner, faster, and more user-friendly, and it will soon become familiar to you. And this interface isn’t different just for the sake of being different. It’s obvious that the interface was well thought out and aimed at the new PC user as well as the new netbook user.

4: Your netbook can be more than just a slow laptop

When I purchased my last netbook, one of the first things I did was install Eeebuntu (over the purchased Xandros Linux). Why did I do this? Because Xandros is a limited operating system, whereas Eeebuntu is a full-blown Linux distro that happens to install on an Eee PC. When using Eeebuntu on a netbook, you really feel like you have the power of a full laptop at your fingertips. You can even install a full-blown LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) server on your netbook if you like.

5: Linux will keep your cost down

One of the reasons why netbooks are so popular is that they’re cheap. Where, other than ebay, can you find a PC for near or under $300? And soon, the magical $200 price tag will be reached when Freescale releases its Linux-only ARM-based netbook. Remember, Linux is open source, so any software you are installing will be free. Because of the cost of the Linux operating system, the cost of netbooks can continue to fall. If Microsoft were to attempt to use Vista or Windows 7, the cost of your average netbook would not fall. And any extra software you want to install – or any antivirus or firewall software you’ll want to use when you’re running a Windows operating system on your netbook? You’ll pay for it.

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Hardware hacking genius and electromagician JKK has published a video tutorial showing how to add an internal 3G HSDPA card to the Asus Eee PC, allowing you to connect at high speeds to the internet from anywhere in the world with 3G cellphone coverage. We talked with JKK, and according to him “it works great” and “the hack is doable by any amateur with a soldering iron.” Indeed, it looks easy enough for our sausage fingers in the video.

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