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No more 8.9-inch ASUS Eee PCs in 2009

Asus is going to completely phase out 8.9-inch Eee PC netbooks this year. Asus believes that the 10-inch netbooks have much higher demand than the 8.9-inch netbooks.

No doubt, the sales of the 10-inch netbooks have been much higher than expected, but it is odd to completely rule out the 8.9-inch netbooks out of the equation. I am sure that there are a lot of people around who yearn for a smaller device and they do not have a need for a full laptop-size keyboard. They just want a device that is easy to carry around.

[via Digitimes]

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ASUS coming up with a Google Android netbook?

ASUS has already allocated a team of engineers to work upon an Android-based netbook and they will able to fully develop the Android-based netbook by the end of this year. It will be interesting to see the place for such a netbook, where 90% of the netbook market is using the old and trusty Windows XP as their OS. One reason that folks at ASUS may be looking upto the Android platform is the fact that it is free. Note, that even though Microsoft continues to offer the netbook manufactures Windows XP, but we cannot deny the fact it is not FREE like Android.

That said, I still believe that although the Android is meant for mobile phones. I do not underestimate Android, but if the netbook has the powerful hardware to run the full desktop OS like Windows XP/7 or Ubuntu, then why install it on a netbook. The only thing that should be bundled with every netbook is an instant on OS and I do believe that there are plenty of linux custom distros which offer full firefox even in the instant-on OS.

[via bloomberg]

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Nvidia confirms ION platform for VIA; first ION product to be a Nettop

Nvidia has already made a lot of friends, who are interested in their ION platform. Now, another digitimes rumor says that they are developing ION-2 for VIA Technologies’ NANO CPU. According to the report, Nvidia was already in talks with the VIA to develop a low cost PC.

This is a great news as this will make the competition even more interesting than we originally thought. Earlier, we heard news of only Atom processors utilizing the ION platform. Now, that VIA’s NANO are also in the game, it can assure us only one thing: release of more powerful netbooks (and nettops) is imminent

More ION related news: They have also indicated that the first ION platform product will be a Nettop and not a netbook. It will be released before June this year.

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Acer Aspire D150 screen better than ASUS EEE S101? [Netbook]

We all know that there are no stock of Acer Aspire One available in the market. The reason behind this that  ACER wants to make sure that all the top components are ready in this new model. In an interview with ACER’s chairman, he claims that that Acer Aspire D150’s screen is better than Asus S101’s. He says D150’s screen is more saturated and is brighter than S101’s screen.

Although, it has been made available in some South-East countries in Asia, but it is still not available worldwide. Now, we are really excited to see if the D150’s screen is really any better than S101. Currently, we are reviewing S101 and the screen is fantastic. If the Acer claims that it better, then it will be surely interesting to see how better it is than its competition.

read Acer Aspire D150 review

[Taipeitimes] [via electronicpulp]