Thousands have splashed out on the AAO (Acer Aspire One) and many have had gripes with things such as hmmmm screen a bit small or hmmmm, a bit of a bugger to upgrade the memory etc or hmmmm, Those damn trackpad buttons or even hmmmm, excessive fan noise.
It looks like Acer is aiming to please even more people now by bringing a new unit to the market. Say hello to the AAO 103 10″ (Acer Aspire One 103 10″) and as you might have guessed it has a 10″ screen opposed to the 8.9″ currently offered. The track-pad buttons have been moved from the side to the bottom as on 99.99999999r% of all other track-pad devices and upgraders/modders have been given an easier life by Acer giving them nice little screw off covers that give access to memory, wifi and hdd. The excitable fan may or not be present in the new model. The AAO 103 version comes with a 1.6GHz Atom processor, 160GB hard drive, 1GB of RAM, multi-touch track-pad (with proper placed buttons), Bluetooth, WiFi, SDHC card reader, and optional 3G connectivity.
If they keep the pricing sensible on this unit, especially with the current climate of penny watchers then Acer should be onto a winner.
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HP showed off it’s new Mini 2140 netbook at the ICES (International Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas earlier this week, and it’s the business.
It comes encased in a sweet aluminium case very similar to their older under powered 2133. HP have made a lot of improvements when comparing this to a 2133 or even the 1000 model. They are hoping that not only the home user will be buying this model but HP also are aiming this at the business world.
HP have option of 3 cell and 6 cell batteries with this model and HP are claiming that the 6 cell option will churn out a staggering 8hrs of life between charges, this obviously depends on how you use the machine.
Other options include either a 160GB HDD (Hard Disk Drive) or an 80GB SSD (Solid State Drive). Operating system option include Windows XP, XP Professional as well as SUSE Linux and possibly Vista Business.
The Intel Atom will be at the heart of the 2140 and the system can support up to 2GB of memory, the 2140 also boasts a 10.1″ screen.
All in all this looks like a very nice machine even though it will weigh slightly more than it’s plastic competition but hey, something had to give to make a quality machine. HP reckon that the 2140 will be released later this month.
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2009 promises to be the Year of the Dual-Core Netbook, low power dual-cores from Freescale, AMD, and VIA Technologies set to join Intel’s dual-core Atom 330.
AMD’s and VIA’s are the real-i-am dual-core processors and Freescale’s chip, a new member of its iMX family will include dual graphics cores that provide OpenVG and OpenGL support.
No word yet on its all important thermal design power (TDP) rating, details will be made available when Freescale rolls it out at CES sometime this month.
As we all know, netbooks are the hot items these days (are you listening Mr Jobs?), and Intel’s Atom has been king of the castle since it’s launch but Intel better be prepared for some stiff competition because the range of processor options is set to expand for the better.
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OK guys, thing’s have been really really quiet here at Netbookmag due to various reasons, we’re sure you could tell by the lack of recent post’s.
Well it’s time for us to get stuck in again and what a better way to start than cracking open an Msi Wind/4211/Akoya mini and perform some sort of step by step upgrade operation.
The memory upgrade tutorial seemed to hit the right note with readers so what so you want to do next?
The options in the polls are to upgrade the hard drive to a larger one.
Upgrade the WiFi card, perhaps you want a draft N card?
Install OS X Leopard for all you MAC lovers. (note: this will also involve upgrading the WiFi card as the stock card does not work with OS X)
Something else? Let us know what you fancy doing next to your machine and we will certainly take all requests on board.
Get voting now!
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New Advent 4213 Netbook
Well guys and gals after the huge success of the Advent 4211 there is a new boy on the block. Welcome to the Advent 4213
We haven’t had out hands on it yet to give it the usual abuse we like to give netbooks but what’s apparent is this is not a re-badge of the fabulous MSI Wind.
PC World , Dixons and Currys are selling these units for £349.99 and the specs include an Atom processor, built in mobile broadband (3G), 10.2″ wide-screen display, 1GB Memory and a 160GB HDD and we believe it will come with a 6 cell battery although unconfirmed. The operating system is Windows XP and will more than likely to bundled with Works etc.. although again not confirmed to us at this stage. To us it looks rather like an ECS G10L netbook which has had the Advent re-badge treatment but until we see some concrete reports or physically get one in our office take that as speculation.
We would love to hear from anyone who can confirm some of the whispers we’ve heard so feel free to leave a reply.
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Just a quick heads up for you lucky UK readers, although things have been very quite here at netbookmag due to annual leave we thought we give you guys the heads up about a quick bargain to be had.
The Atom powered Acer Aspire One A110AB is available at PC World for the bargain price off £199.
As always with PC World the item is available for either reserve online and collect in store or home delivery.
Grab one quick as i dont think they will stay at this price for long!
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More good news UK netbook lovers, Micro Direct have the Asus eee 901 and the Asus eee 1000H in stock right now.
Prices are as follows:
£287.88 Asus eee 901
£336.05 Asus eee 1000H
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Yahoo! Noooo not the search engine, but the Yahoo as in “Hurrah”, “Yeehaaah” and “Yessss”, why the cheers? As you will probably be aware the MSI Wind is due to be stocked on UK shelves sometime in the very near future but why would you want to wait and even more to the point, why pay more?
Remember our unboxing photo-shoot of the Advent 4211? Those that do will know that the 4211 is a MSI Wind with an Advent badge on it, not only that but it’s also a good £50 cheaper.
Soon after our photos were released the Advent 4211 went flying off the shelves and stock became like hen’s teeth to find apart from the odd chancer selling them on eBay for £50+ above the R.R.P. Good news though, PC World have them back in stock for both collect in store and home delivery. If your going to buy one then why not think about the memory upgrade while you have you wallet open. Our easy to follow Advent 4211 Memory upgrade tutorial can be found HERE.
We had a few of the 4211’s lying around our office which were promptly claimed by staff and 9 out of 10 NetbookMag.com staff say they prefer the 4211 to any other netbook they have used. The scariest thing of all is i agree with them. Go grab one before they all go again and let us know your thoughts on the machine. DIRECT LINK
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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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