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MSI Wind U110 Eco with 9-hour Battery Life

Looks like a lot of netbook manufacturers are now finally focusing on improving the battery life. Asus has already announced a battery pack for EEE 1000HE, which should give you 9+ hours of battery life. Now, MSI has launched Wind U110 Eco, which offers 9-hour battery life. Here are its other specifications:

  • MSI Wind U110 Eco with 9-hour Battery LifeIntel Atom Z530 1.6GHz CPU
  • Windows XP/ Windows Vista
  • Ati Mobility Radeon HD3200
  • 10″ 1024×600  LCD Panel
  • 1.3MP (2.0MP optional)
  • 160GB or above (2.5″ SATA HDD)
  • 1kg (with 3 cell battery)

Did you observe that it includes an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3200 graphics card? Wow. MSI, please do not spoil the whole package with a 3-cell battery. I hope they make the 6-cell battery as standard for it. Otherwise, you will very soon be hearing the complains of the people about the crappy battery life.

[MSI]

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Doraemon Netbook by Kurokids

A Taiwanese company named KuroKids have released a netbook named after a Japanese cartoon character, Doraemon. Hardware-wise, it is based on Intel’s classmate PC. It comes with a familiar Windows XP OS and will cost you around $500.

That is a pretty expensive price for an OLPC-based netbook though.

[via CheapLaptops]

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ASUS EEE keyboard specs unveiled

Alright, we somehow missed this news. From the outside, it may look like just another keyboard, but it packs in much more than just a keyboard. They were able to squeeze in an Atom N270 processor, 5-inch 800×480 pixel screen, 16GB SSD, 1GB RAM, WiFi and Bluetooth and even USB 2.0 ports. I’m still wondering how the ASUS was able to put in so much under a keyboard. But how would your desktop look with the wires coming out from the keyboard? Odd.

Asus Eee keboard

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Toshiba netbooks to enter US market later this year

Although Toshiba’s netbook NB100 is currently available in Europe and South America, Toshiba is yet to launch a netbook in the US  market. Rumor has it that instead of launching the now-old NB100, it will launch a completely new product. Nothing about its specifications has been revealed so far. Patrick Mani of Toshiba says

You know us: We won’t be the least expensive out there and we won’t be the most expensive.

We all know that Toshiba is not going to take the US market lightly. However, it will be interesting to see what Toshiba comes up with later this year

[via netbookboards]

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Reason why Netbook manufactures are not going to embrace the 1.86Ghz Intel Atom processor (Z540)


The famous N270 Intel Atom processor, which is clocked at 1.6GHz is still selling like hot cakes and the netbook and nettop manufactures are still going in for the N270 processor instead of 1.86GHz processor. Ever wondered why? The reason is simple: COST. The Z540, Intel’s 1.86GHz processor costs more than twice of what N270 retails at.

The  Z540 costs $135, whereas the N270 costs just $44. Clearly, OEM simply won’t want to use a processor that costs nearly $100 more than the tried-and-tested N270 processor. Intel needs to keep the costs low for the Atom processor range so that more netbook manufactures embrace the Z540 processor. After all, overall price matters a lot in the netbook field. Also, $100 price difference is huge gap when we are talking about netbooks

[download Intel Official Pricelist]

[via Fudzilla]