Archive for July 24, 2008

HP Planning to Make a Cheaper Mini-Note

Jul 24th

HP’s mini notebook PC has been out for quite awhile now. Although it has been touted as a great computing machine for its size, consumers are set back by it high price, especially with the availability of newer and more affordable netbooks.

So, to compete with rival companies’ more affordable offering, HP is reportedly eyeing on releasing a newer and more affordable version of the HP Mini Note machine. HP said the new machine will be in-tuned with other netbooks and would definitely carry a lower price than the original Mini-Note model.

Expected date for the release of the new Mini-Note is said to sometime in 2009. No other details have been provided yet. But certainly, the only HP can compete in the netbook market is to load its new machine with the Atom Processor. The current HP runs only on VIA C7-M processor, since the Atom processor was not available yet when it was released.

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A post from the Asus Eee PC blog.

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Asus to Release More Accessories for the Eee PC?

Jul 24th

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As if the barrage of Eee PC models were not enough, Asus may soon be launching another set of products made specifically for its Eee PC product line. Although these are nothing but rumors yet in lieu of an official announcement from Asus, they are definitely worth a second look nonetheless.

So, we might be looking at future accessories of the Eee PC products which include the following: a hard drive, optical drive and a 3G card.

If the expanding storage capacities of the new Eee PC models are not enough for your needs, this new Eee Hard Drive may suit your needs. It looks like your typical Western Digital My Passport products. It might come in package with low storage capacity Eee PCs.

The next product which is an optical drive seems rather unnecessary unless of course if Asus got some other plans for it. The last product – the 3G card may seem to be the most useful ones especially since it’s a much sought after feature for an ultraportable PC such as the Eee PC. This would make the Eee PCs more and more like mobile phone devices now.