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Archive for September 18, 2008
Vodafone to Offer Free Mini Inspiron 9
Sep 18th
You read that right – we said free!
As we previously reported, Vodafone and Dell teamed up to offer 3G services for the Dell Inspiron Mini. Vodafone have now announced that they will be offering a free Dell Mini Inspiron 9 when you sign up with them on a mobile broadband contract!
We can’t give details on price plans as Vodafone are yet to announce that information so, free may or may not come at a price but, with Vodafone’s current mobile broadband packages coming in at £15 or £25 a month for 3GB of data usage and 5gb respectively, with a minimum contract time of 24 months, it could be a very sweet deal for some customers that are happy to stick with the same model for 2 years.
Here is the link to register interest if you wish to be kept up to date with the offer: Mini9 Free Vodafone.
Source: Electric Pig
A post from the Asus Eee PC blog.
Vodafone to Offer Free Mini Inspiron 9
ASUS N10 is a notebook
Sep 18th
Laptop Magazine, Engadget and Geek.com recently had a presentation with an ASUS representative showing off the N10. The ASUS representative stated on multiple occasions that the N10 is a “notebook, not netbook”.
When looking at the specifications of the N10, there are quite a few similarities to the Eee PC. But they’ll be some features that aren’t found in an Eee PC.
There will be two models of the N100 available, N10E and N10J. The N10E will start at $599 while the N10J will retail for $699. For the extra money it gets you a larger hard drive and switchable graphics.
The N10 comes with a 10 inch screen, with a resolution of 1024 x 600, 2GB of RAM, 1.6HGZ Atom processer and an ExpressCard slot. You’re also find a fingerprint reader, SmartLogon facial recognition, bluetooth and wlan as welel as a DisplayPort Video Out.
The N10E will come with a 160GB hard drive while the N10J will come with a 320GB hard drive. The N10E will also come with intergrated intel graphics where as the N10J will have switchable graphics of either Intergrated Intel or Nvidid GeForce 9300 MS.
You can expect to get 6 to 12 hours of battery life with it’s 6-cell battery. Both models will come with Windows Vista, but there will be an option to downgrade to XP.
A post from the Asus Eee PC blog.
Toshiba Makes the NB100 Official
Sep 18th
Last week, signs of Toshiba’s netbook, the NB100 spread across the web courtesy of Toshiba Mexico. Since there was no official word yet from Toshiba that time, everybody took it as another pre-empted announcement which might likely happen after several more months.
But taking a cue from Dell, Toshiba decided to launched it own netbook now. And so we finally have an official statement coming from Toshiba regarding the NB100.
Like we said before, the NB100 looks sleek and professional to make the netbook in tune with the business/corporate setting.
Anyway we now have the following specs for the Toshiba NB100:
- 8.9-inch LCD display resolution (1024 x 600)
- 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 processor
- 512MB or 1GB of RAM
- 120GB of HD
- 0.3 megapixel webcam
- Wi-Fi
- USB, VGA, Audio and Ethernet ports.
The Toshiba NB100 will be available next month for a retail price of around $469.
A post from the Asus Eee PC blog.
Toshiba Makes the NB100 Official
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