It kind of looks like a Macbook Air, but it’s just your typical netbook. Well, except for the 12-inch screen. Meet the iiView A2. It’s running on a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 CPU, 2GB of RAM, a 320GB hard drive, and a 12.1 inch, 1280 x 800 pixel display. Oh surprise, it has 6 cell battery and it rocks Windows 7 RC1.

Now, would you be caught carrying a Macbook Air lookalike, or would you use a different netbook when travelling?

TechCrunch has found some videos of a purpoted Apple Tablet in action. It looks more like an expanded iPhone screen, and it’s probably fake. But we’re still hoping.

Anyway, the videos are below, and they look rather awesome to me.

Will you look at that. We don’t even know how to define netbooks anymore. The Acer Aspire Timeline 1810T sports an 11.6 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display, and has a 1.4GHz Intel ULV processor and GMA 4500MHD graphics. It’s not an Intel Atom! It can also handle up to 4GB of RAM, comes with a 250GB hard drive, and HDMI out.

This kind of reminds me how far netbooks have gone. heck, 11.6 inches will provide us with the best possible option for portability (heck, us travelers need all the help we can get) without sacrificing screen space.

Dell can’t seem to make up its mind. The computer manufacturing giant, in a recent blog post, announced that it will stop producing its 12 inch netbooks. But it also announced that the Mini 9 (which has a 10 inch display) has been revived — after it was retired last June.

According to the same blog post, Dell’s move can be seen as a realization that in the netbook market the 10 inch display is where the money is.

Dell is selling the Mini 9 for $299 while the Mini 12 is sold at the Dell factory outlets for about $569.

Subcribers to Google’s beta channel can now play with a new beta of Google’s hot Chrome browser. Non subscribers will usually get the stable builds of these beta versions at a latter date.

So what should we expect from this beta? Well, first, it is going to be a faster browsing experience. Benchmarks show that a 30 percent increase in performance can be expected from the new build. The benchmarks used are the V8 and SunSpider benchmarks, this means you can expect significant speed boosts in running JavaScript.

The improvements do not end with faster performance though. Google has programmed Chrome to be smarter in prioritizing the loading of pages when a user opens a new web page while other pages are still loading.

Chrome’s New Tabs page has also been improved along with the unique Omnibox. The New Tabs page is now customizable. Users can now pin frequently visited sites in certain locations. The Omnibox now also includes icons next to the suggestions as a way of differentiating between a web site address or a bookmark. An additional aesthetic improvement is the addition of customizable themes.

If you want to try it for yourself now, subscribe to Google’s beta channel. But if you’re not a fan of unstable betas, then just wait for when Google officially releases it.