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Archive for September 2, 2008
MSI Wind U100 now with bigger hard drive
Sep 2nd
After recently changing their netbook’s touchpads to sentelic from Synaptics, giving less functionality, MSI are upgrading the hard drives in one of their netbooks.
MSI will be upgrading the hard drive of their U100 to a 120GB hard drive which will ship as standard. MSI should be starting this immediately, however it could still take a while before the 80GB ones are sold and you start seeing the 120GB version.
MSI’s U90, U100’s little brother with a 8.9 inch screen, will continue to ship with the original 80GB hard drive.
Via: Hexus
A post from the Asus Eee PC blog.
Dell Inspirion 910 this week?
Sep 2nd
Deja vu? Well, perhaps but, several sites have reported that the Dell Inspiron Mini will be launched at the beginning of September. Gizmodo, Blogeee and EeePCNews.de have all reported that the Inspiron Mini will be released on the 5th September, the 7th in France and the 9th in Germany respectively.
Hopefully, the information is true. There are other reports that there will be a Dell announcement sooner than any of those dates but, that isn’t confirmed either, we are still lacking the definitive release information from Dell unfortunately. All the indications are that the Inspiron Mini will be with us sooner rather than later though.
A post from the Asus Eee PC blog.
Launch2Net for Linux is Mobile Connection Manager for Linux Eee PCs
Sep 2nd
For those who have always wanted to connect their Linux-powered Eee PCs to the web using a stand-alone modem or a mobile phone modem, German company Nova Media is offering a new mobile connection manager called “launch2net for Linux”.
What usually takes a long process setting parameters, passwords and all those stuff when trying to use a USB modem to connect your Eee PC to Internet now becomes easier with the said application. All you need to do is plug-in your USB modem to your Eee PC’s USB port and let the application configure your system. Before you know it, you are already connected to the Internet.
Sounds easy? Unfortunately, the application works only with Linux-powered Eee PC . And secondly, it doesn’t come free. You have to buy the software/application for around 25,17 Euro.
It really depends on you whether you want to skip the hassle of setting up your mobile connection setting or pay the price, sit back, relax and enjoy surfing the internet.
A post from the Asus Eee PC blog.
Launch2Net for Linux is Mobile Connection Manager for Linux Eee PCs
