Month: September 2008

Apple’s September 9 Event

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Apple iPhone 3G Yesterday’s Apple event didn’t hold too many surprises (many had been leaked ahead of time by various rumor sites), but it provided fairly solid updates to Apple’s iPod lineup, as well some interesting information.

In the humor department, Jobs jokes that “reports of my death are greatly exaggerated” (complete with a slide saying that)

– iTunes now offers HD TV shows
– A “Genius” capability was added to iTunes which creates playlists from your existing library as well as recommendations from the iTunes store
– iTunes 8.0 made available
– iPod Classic drops 160GB model, upgrades 80GB to 120GB
– iPod Nano redesigned – thinner, accelerometer
– iPod Touch slightly redesigned – thinner, stainless steel, controls added, Nike+ iPod receiver built in.

The thing I was interested in was the iPhone 2.1 firmware / upgrade. It’ll be available this week, and among the fixes/updates:

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Asus Eee PC 900, 901, 1000, 1000H Price Drops

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Asus Eee PC 1000 Good things come to those who wait for Asus Eee PCs- if you were interested in the Intel Celeron-powered 900 Eee PC or the Atom-powered 8.9″ Eee PC 901 or the 10.2″ 1000 or 1000H, prices have been dropped across the board, at least in the US.

Whether this is in response to netbook offerings from Dell or Lenovo, or even Acer Aspire Ones showing up at Best Buy and Circuit City (and apparently selling well), it’s hard to say. Asustek has been running some $100 rebates for a few months now on certain Eee PC models, but this the price drops are immediate.

Some retailers are already reflecting the new prices (up to $100 in some cases):

Amazon – Intel Atom
– ASUS Eee PC 901 12G (Black) – $449.99, 1GB RAM, 12GB SSD, Windows XP Home, 6-Cell Battery, Black
– ASUS Eee PC 901 12G (White) – $449.99, 1GB RAM, 12GB SSD, Windows XP Home, 6-Cell Battery
– ASUS Eee PC 901 20G (Black) – $499.99, 1GB RAM, 20GB SSD, Linux, 6-Cell Battery, Black
– ASUS Eee PC 901 20G (White) – $449.99, 1GB RAM, 20GB SSD, Linux, 6-Cell Battery
– ASUS Eee PC 1000 40G (Black) – $499.99, 1GB RAM, 40GB SSD, Linux, 6-Cell Battery
– ASUS Eee PC 1000 40G (White) – $469.99, 1GB RAM, 40GB SSD, Linux, 6-Cell Battery
– ASUS Eee PC 1000H 80G (Black) – $449.99, 1GB RAM, 80GB HDD, Windows XP Home, 6-Cell Battery

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Toshiba Dynabook SS RX2 Announced

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The sequel to the 12.1″ Toshiba Dynabook SS RX1 has been announced today. The RX1 is similar to the Toshiba Portege R500 which is available in North America and elsewhere. It’s the Toshiba Dynabook SS RX2, and it appears to maintain the same 12.1″ LED-backlit … Read more

Samsung Netbook Announced

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Looks like Samsung had pretty good reasons to start working with Microsoft on speeding up Windows Vista on Solid State Drives (SSDs), and not just because Samsung wants to sell more SSDs. Samsung has announced a netbook during the “KT WIBRO Alliance” gathering in Seoul, … Read more

Medion Akoya Mini at IFA 2008

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This week at IFA 2008 (an international consumer electronics trade fair – see website for more details), quite a few new products are being announced, including some of interest to us. Medion is showing off the 10.2″ Intel Atom-based AKOYA Mini netbook and AVING.net has … Read more