Category: NetBook

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MSI Wind U115 Honored Among this year's Top Ten Gadgets

At the CES 2009, we came to know about plethora of great products. Among one of them was the unveiling of the MSI Wind U115, which the first hybrid netbook. By hybrid, we mean that it has both SSD and a normal Hard Disk under it’s hood.

Last year, MSI was the dark horse of the IT industry. This year, MSI hopes to become one of the world’s top ten notebook brands through its strong product R&D and global marketing. During the CES, which took place from January 8 to 11, MSI not only continued to promote the latest Wind Netbook, entertainment series, and gaming series, but also introduced the X320 of the aesthetic X-Slim series and four new Wind NetOn All-in-one PCs.

The hybrid storage design of the Wind U115 Hybrid allows you to choose between 8GB and 16GB for the SDD, and 120GB or 160GB for the SATA HHD. The SSD operating system provides efficiency, stability, and cuts down power-up time, while the SATA HHD hard drive provides large storage space. We are pretty excited to get our hands on these hybrid devices as-soon-as they hit the market. What about you?

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ViewSonic netbook LinkPC is debuting this March

After so many months of waiting, the ViewSonic would finally be launching the ViewSonic netbook LinkPC. But, don’t get your hopes too for this netbook as it’s specfications as-well-as looks are pretty basic. The price is qutie high at $400, which is not a wise desicion as the competition in the netbook market is getting fiercer and fiercer day-by-day.

ViewSonic netbook LinkPC is debuting this March

Infact, we had some hopes have that ViewSonic would come up with a netbook to rival the new hybrid netbook from MSI U115, but ViewSonic has let us down. Here are the quick specs of it:

1.6GHz Atom processor
1 GB of RAM
160 GB HDD
Wi-Fi
Window XP Home

It will be available by the end of March.

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AT&T's $99 Dell Netbook plan now confirmed – dell mini 9

Want to get that sleep Dell Mini 9 for just $99? Now you can because AT&T has now confirmed to offer $350 mail-in rebate, if you get a two year AT&T contract. The Mini 9 is originally available for price of $449, but thanks to this sweet mail-in rebate, the deal becomes irrestitible. For $99, you are getting a quite powerful netbook, which not only has the AT&T coverage, but also WiFi via which you can connect the netbook to the nearby WiFi hotspots.

Hurry as this offer is valid till January only!

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Gigabyte to launch 3 new Netbooks in Second Quater in 2009

The Gigabyte is planning to launch 3 new netbooks in the second quarter this year. Out of 3 netbooks, two will be manufactured by Quanta, which is a popular manufacturer of notebooks and Windows Mobile smartphones. All three netbooks are rumored to have prices around $400, although the folks at Gigabyte are trying to get one of them at around $300 for the emerging markets.

I hope the netbooks made by Quanta won’t have hardware problems like the MWG had with the Atom Life. I have personally owned Atom Life once and had to sell it at a ridiculously low price. Not only me, but countless people complained about the hardware issues of Atom Life and the original Atom (then known as O2 Atom).

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ASUS unveils EEE PC T91, T101H and S121

At CES 2009, Asus has announced their three new devices EEE PC T91, EEE T101H and EEE S121 Netbook. The EEE PC T91 is the first official EEE which has a 8.9-inch swivel touch screen. It will come with Windows XP Home edition. It comes with an optional TV-tuner or GPS. EEE PC T101H looks similar to the T91, but sports a bigger 10-inch screen and sports a better keyboard where there is more space between the keys. The EEE PC S121 looks a lot like Asus S101 Netbook, but with new powerful specifications, especially the use of 512GB SSD:

  • Intel Atom Z520 processor
  • 512GB SSD
  • 12.2-inch slim chassis
  • whooping 8-hours of battery time
  • dimensions: 11.7×8.3×0.9

I’m really excited about the one with the 512GB SSD. I am still wondering though how ASUS will be able to keep the price of the S121 low since a 512GB SSD won’t come cheap for sure.