Acer have made a statement releasing info about their upcoming 10″ AAO.

Acer, the third largest vendor in the global PC market (source: Gartner data, 1H 2008), today presented an all-new 10” Aspire One netbook, complete with a 10-inch screen, Windows XP and integrated Bluetooth, and designed for a fast, simple and utterly cool online life.

Only one year after first appearing on the market, netbooks have totally revolutionized the PC market, helping to form an entirely new market segment that users themselves created through a real need to be online all the time and to socialize around the clock. Continue reading »

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You spoke and we listened, we have set up a forum for you guys to talk about tips, tweaks, hacks and everything else you want to talk about. We’ve spared no expense and bought a full vBulletin licence opposed to using an inferior forum software but remember though, at the moment it’s a blank canvas so it’s upto you guys to get the ball rolling. If you want sections added, removed or changed then just let us know.

As things progress we will be looking for moderators to keep things running smoothly.

You will find the forum at http://netbookuser.net

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HP Mini Note 2133

The new version of the HP Mini Note 2133 will be equipped with an Intel Atom processor.

Well this is the current rumour that has been reported on various sites. Continue reading »

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Toshiba have told apcmag.com that the mini note should appear on shelves soon.

Here’s some details from their website.

Toshiba is set to join industry heavyweights HP and Dell in the mainstream surge towards compact mini-note PCs. “We’ve been looking at the market place and we will have a ULPC very soon” Mark Whittard, General Manager of Toshiba Australia, revealed to APCmag.com during the company’s annual MobileXchange mobile computing forum in Sydney. Continue reading »

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eee pc 900 rebate

In an effort to push out the remaining 900 Eee PC stock to make room for the new Intel Atom-based 901 Eee PC’s, Asus is offering a $100 rebate in the US to help the sales of the original 9″ model, even though it wasn’t that long ago that it was introduced into the marketplace. With the price drop, the Eee PC 900 20G Surf goes for $449 on amazon, the only major retailer that is currently offering discount. Hopefully other retailers and countries will soon follow suit.

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MSI Wnd all 3

MSI’s own netbook, the Wind, has managed to crawl into some stores around the world this week but the first batch of units all have a 3-cell battery, and this applies to both Windows XP and Linux equipped models.

The Intel Atom powered Wind U100 Continue reading »

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acer aspire oneAt last a retailer is taking pre-orders on the Acer Aspire One. Not only that but they have several different models on offer. Best of all, they have reasonably priced the unit opposed to hiking the price up on initial orders.
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acer aspire one

The wait is over for the Acer Aspire One as it has finally made an appearance and it’s listed for sale in Taiwan, European availability is starting in 6-10 days according to several e-tailers. The first model is the A110L which is the most basic out of three netbooks that Acer will launch. Continue reading »

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Japanese laptop maker Kohjinsha has announced a couple of sub-notebooks capable of giving the Eee a run for their money., The new offerings are Tablet Sub Notebooks running Windows XP Home and come with 80Gb Hard Drives.

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The operating system runs on 500MHz AMD Geode LX800 processors, and come with 512MB of 333MHz DDR 2 memory and 80 GB HDD. Continue reading »

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Seems that just about anyone inside of Asus is authorized to discuss the Eee PC’s future plans judging by the barrage of information that appears just before any launch. An unnamed “company representative” says that a 3G version of the Eee PC will be launching as early as September in Europe. An alternative to the WiMax version already annouced and demonstrated on Sprint’s Xohm. The prices for the presumed HSDPA/HSUPA enabled netbook will of course vary depending upon contract.

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