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New Acer Aspire One A0721 11.6″ AMD netbook now shipping

Published: May 25, 2010Tags:

*update* The Aspire One AO721 has now begun shipping!

We spotted the Acer Aspire One A0721 passing through the FCC site in March, but now it’s finally up for preorder from Amazon. This netbook has some very impressive specs for the price ($429 with free shipping):

Display: 11.6″ 1366 x 768
Processor: AMD Athlon II Neo K125 1.7GHz
Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 4225 graphics with 384MB dedicated video memory
Memory: 2GB of DDR3 RAM
HD: 250GB
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
Battery: 6 cell, 4400mah (up to 5.5 hours)
Dimensions (3 pounds, 1″ thick)

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Acer announces 10.1″ Acer Aspire one 360

Published: May 24, 2010Tags:

Acer has announced several new AMD powered netbooks recently, but there is yet another that has just been announced. This one is powered by an Atom processor and adds a few new features such as: multitouch trackpad, flush battery, and no ports on the bottom for a flush design.

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Compaq Airlife 100 smartbook reviewed

Published: May 21, 2010Tags: compaq, smartbook

The Compaq Airlife smartbook is getting closer to release, and Chippy at carrypad has gotten ahold of a pre-production model and written a review. Basically it’s a stripped down netbook that’s slower and less useful. The only upside of this device is that it’s instant-on OS is very convenient, but with all of the quick boot options available on netbooks now this is not all that great anymore.

compaq Basically the Airlife 100 is worse than any comparable netbook in speed, looks and memory and according to Chippy will cost well over $300.

Some more examples of how the Airlife is completely useless:

There are no USB ports
Screen can’t be opened far enough to point at your face (if sitting on a table it points at your chest) and combine this with a poor viewing angle
Comes with stripped down version of Android (no apps, not even gmail) and no access to the Android marketplace
Flash doesn”t work on websites

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Netbook sales will almost double in 2010

Published: May 19, 2010Tags:

According to a new report by ABI research netbook sales will jump from 36 million units sold in 2009 to almost 60 million in 2010. Even with the Apple iPad slightly cutting into sales (but not much) it looks like netbooks will continue to gain market share. So far the key to success has been their low price, long battery life and portability. Their main downside has been the sluggish processors and poor video performance but some of the new netbooks look to fix that.

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So it looks like netbooks aren’t going anywhere anytime soon. Oh, and remember this guy?

Asus Eee PC 1015P gets official

Published: May 18, 2010Tags:

We’ve already seen alot of photos of the new Asus Eee PC 1015P netbook, but now it has it’s own product page up at the Asus global site. This means that it’s one step closer to shipping here in the US, and we’re definitely looking forward to this one.

1015p Here are the specs:

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Asus netbook with built-in cellphone

Published: May 17, 2010Tags:

It looks like Asus is working on a new netbook that also has a built-in cellphone. The cellphone is removable and can be used as a stand-alone phone of course, but when inside the netbook it’s used as a 3G modem for the netbook. This means that you can just get 1 data plan and share it on your netbook and phone.

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MSI Wind U250 shown in France

Published: May 13, 2010Tags:

An interesting new MSI Wind netbook was shown the other day at an AMD event in France. It’s the Wind U250, and we had heard rumors about this netbook but now we know it’s real.

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Here are the specs that we know of:

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Acer Aspire one netbook with AMD and ATI

Published: May 12, 2010Tags:

We already knew that the new Aspire one 521 from Acer would feature a 1.2GHz AMD V105 processor and have ATI Radeon HD 4225 graphics, but Acer has released a video that shows it working in person, and it looks like it doesn’t have any problem at all with HD video.

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Intel Atom chips to support HD graphics in 2011

Published: May 11, 2010Tags:

The new Cedar trail-M Intel Atom chip will be capable of HD (1080p) video playback as well as have HDMI out capabilities. Having HD video capabilities and HDMI output has been left to higher end netbooks with Nvidia Ion graphics or a Crystal HD card recently, but if the rumors are correct this will be common for all netbooks in 2011.

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New Sony Vaio P series reviewed

Published: May 10, 2010Tags: sony vaio

The new Sony Vaio P series has just been officially announced around the globe, and Engadget has just put up their review of the sub-notebook. Basically it’s the same as other Vaio’s but they’ve added an accelerometer for navigating the web and a faster Intel Atom Z560 processor. So is the slightly new design and updated components worth $800?

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