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Archive for October 24, 2008
Akoya Mini gets new design
Oct 24th
Say Hello to the redesigned Akoya Mini from Medion.
Medion have added a redesigned Akoya Mini to their list of Akoya’s. The redesign sees Hello Kitty placed on the lid of the netbook or a butterfly design. The new redesigned model will retail for 479 Euros, as opposed to the standard Akoya Mini price of 369 Euros.
So what else does this 110 Euros difference get you? Well, nothing. The Hello Kitty Akoya Mini comes with the same specs found on the standard Akoya Mini. Both Akoya Mini’s come with a 10.2 inch screen, 1.6GHz Atom processor, 1GB RAM and 160GB hard drive.
Via: EeePCNews.de
A post from the Asus Eee PC blog.
Tablet Netbook From Intel?
Oct 24th
This week at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in Taiwan the UrbanMax tablet was presented.
The UrbanMax is a concept design combining tablet PC with netbook/notebook. With it’s 11 inch screen it can be used as a tablet PC with the touch screen flat, or it can be tilted to use as a netbook or even to replace a notebook. When in tablet mode, it uses a minimal interface but when the touch screen is tilted the tablet netbook reverts to Windows Vista.
Further specifications are not known at this concept stage. Intel have however said that the UrbanMax will use SSD for storage.
Via: idealo
A post from the Asus Eee PC blog.
Dell Rebrands the Inspiron Mini 9 Netbook to Vostro A90
Oct 24th
We really don’t know what came over the people at Dell which is reported to be preparing to release an all-black version of its recently released Inspiron Mini-9, to the UK market. What is so interesting about this new version of the Inspiron Mini 9 is the fact that Dell will be releasing it as the Vostro A90. The Vostro A90 is being aimed at small businesses, hence the need to rebrand it as such.
While UK pricing and release date in the UK market is yet to be announced, the new Inspiron Mini 9 aka Vostro A90 was in fact already launched in Japan and will retail for a whooping $972. It’s definitely a steep price considering that you would get the same specs that include; 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 processor, 8.9-inch 1024×600 display, a 1GB of RAM, 8GB of SSD and other features of the Inspiron Mini 9. The Inspiron Mini 9 retails for only around $465.
I wonder how many would get the same spec’d machine as the Inspiron Mini 9 for a more expensive price, wherein fact the only difference is the price and the color design?
Don’t you think that this is a bad move for Dell?
A post from the Asus Eee PC blog.
Dell Rebrands the Inspiron Mini 9 Netbook to Vostro A90
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