From the past couple of months, a lot of (white-box) netbook manufactures have entered the netbook market. As a result of that, the supply of the N270 is able to meet the huge demand of the manufactures. Intel has decided to increase the price of the N270 Atom processor to the extent that the price of the N280 processor will be same as the N270 processor.
If the price of the N270 will price same as N280, why not just switch to N280?
[via digitimes]
The 10-inch Acer Aspire One (D150) has just started to show at the shelves and now, we’ve already started getting news of its bigger brother, which will sport a 11.6-inch screen. Unlike other netbook manufactures, not only the screen size has been bumped up, but also the resolution. It is now 1,366 x 768. Other specs include:
What I am not able to get is why the netbook manufactures are making the netbooks bigger and expensive. There should be restrictions on the maximum size of the netbooks. I’m sure that very soon, DVD drives will become norm in the netbooks. The original idea of netbooks was to be cheap and portable. The newer netbooks are NEITHER.
The SAMSUNG NC20 was all set to be released by newEgg in US in the month of March. Now, it has been delayed to the month of April. The model that will be made available in US will come in only one color: black. In case, you have forgotten the specifications of this 12-inch beauty, here they are:
[via laptopmag]
ViewSonic, a famous company for its monitors is now going to launch netbooks in the Chinese market. What exact models of netbooks will be launched or will there be new models for China is not known at this moment.
Besides netbooks, it is also planning to launch a huge 22″ notebook in Chinese the market.
[via digitimes]
Now, you can view ApoTheTech.com on your iPhone, Windows Mobile and normal cellphone too! If you are using Windows Mobile, just point your browser to “apothetech.com” and you will see a bandwidth friendly version of ApoTheTech.com.
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A forum member at UMPCfever has posted a hand drawn picture of a new mysterious netbook from Fujitsu. It has been named M2010 and will be unveiled in the month of July (2009). By the looks of it, it seems to have a 10-inch screen. But, the netbook in that picture looks like any other netbook in the market. If you ask me, it looks more like EEE 1000H or EEE 901 with smaller touchpad. The month of July is not far away and if you ask me, it will be too for difficult for Fujitsu to leak just hand drawings to the world before its launch.
Remember the Presto OS that we talked about few weeks back? Well, its new BETA is now finally available for download. After installing Presto, the next time you turn on your computer, you will the choice of running Presto OS or Windows OS.
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Information about two Z-series Atom processors was leaked today. One is 1.2GHz processor (Z515), which is extremely power-frugal and consumes just 1.4W when running at full power and as-little-as 0.65W when scaled back to 800MHz clock speed. However, with all these fancy low number, you will have to bear with slower 400MHz system bus and a 100MHz slower graphics core.
The second Atom is the first one to achive 2GHz clock speed (Z550). Interestingly, it still consumes 2.4W of power which is same as consumed by the 1.86GHz version.
The Z515 will be targeted at the low-powered MIDs and low-cost netbooks. Onviously, the Z550 will be targeted towards hi-end netbooks.
[via electronista]
Looks like the rumors of Apple netbook are not going to die until the Apple finally release their over-talked about netbook. According to the latest rumor, LG is going to make OLED displays for the Apple’s netbook. The new rumor may not be so true as the last time, when we heard about the Apple netbook, the Quanta was given the contract to make them. So, from where did the LG came into play?
These rumors are surely going to make the Apple think about making a netbook now, incase they have not given a thought about it until now.
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