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The netbook that created netbooks and which spawned a huge market for netbooks worldwide – the Asus Eee PC, is one year old today.
October 16th 2007 saw the arrival of the first Eee PC and since then the brand has soared in sales and become the ‘role model’ for a plethora of netbooks from different [...]
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The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Ms Kitagawa, an anaylst from the research company Gartner, predicts that worldwide PC shipments will grow by 14% in Q4, but much of that is predicted to come from netbooks.
HP have already joined the netbook world and yesterday reduced the price of their Mini-Note 2133. Many hoped this [...]
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There’s a new netbook (or sub-laptop as it’s labelled) in town if you live in the UK, in the form of the PicoBook Pro from Apricot computers, a British company with a long history in computing.
This new Apricot netbook is basically a variant of the Cloudbook and features a VIA processor (a fast, ultra-low voltage [...]
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On Global sources electronics fair in Hong Kong we were shown a lot of new netbooks, in this post we will look on a couple of models from a company called Firstview:
First of is a 7 inch-model called Firstview PC703.
The specifications is:
7 inch Digital LCD screen,VGA 800*480 pixels.
Windows CE 5.0
CPU: Z228
Processor: Jade 532MHz 32-bit Processor
ROM: [...]
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On the Hong Kong Electronics fair Touchmate presented their new netbook, called PC210. Specifications is as below:
10.2″ WXGA 1024×600 LED
Via C7-M 1.6Ghz CPU
1 GB RAM DDR2
120 SATA GB HDD
Wlan (a/b/g)
Via UniChrome Pro graphics
Webcam
A post from the Asus Eee PC blog.
Touchmate PC210
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Words on the streets are saying that Dell seems to be prepping up a new notebook/netbook called the Dell Inspiron Mini 1210. A service manual and setup guide pages sitting right on Dell’s official site revealed this Inspiron Mini 1210.
Based on the leaked documents we are looking into a 12-inch notebook powered by Intel Atom [...]
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With more and more tech geeks experimenting on loading netbooks with Apple’s OS X and have successfully done so, Apple should take the cue and come up with their own Apple Netbook. Unfortunately, the company seems to be not to keen on doing so but instead introduced a sub-$1000 MacBook recently.
Hence, OS X-loving tech geeks [...]
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Japanese manufacturer maybe starting to notice the growing popularity of netbooks, that some of them are starting to join the netbook party. One of them is NEC which just announced their own netbook – the LaVie Light. Sadly, this netbook got nothing unusual to brag about except for the fact that it has the NEC [...]
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NetbookTech have come across details of the latest Dell promotion in the form of it’s ‘10 Days of Deals’ sale which began on the 14th of October and for anyone looking to buy an Inspiron Mini 9, mark off the 16th in your diaries – that’s the day the Mini 9 will be one of [...]
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jkOnTheRun have received a promotional email from HP showing that their Mini-Note netbook has now been reduced in price.
The base model is now available for $399, a whopping $100 off the original price. The base model of the Mini-Note comes with a Via processor, 4GB SSD, SUSE Linux and 512MB RAM. The next model up [...]
While the rest of the Asian countris are already enjoying the MSI Wind U90 a couple of months ago, it is only now that said netbook is making its way into the European markets. Register Hardware is reporting that MSI has officially announced the MSI Wind U90, which is a scaled-down version of the recently released Wind U100 (in Europe). Getting an SRP of around $485 which is a bit lower than its big brother Wind U100 which priced in at around $593. Although many of us may already know this, the Wind U90 will feature an 8.9-inch display and 80GB of HDD.
