Month: October 2008

There Will be New MacBooks

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It’s now almost certain that there will be new MacBooks introduced in a few days at Apple’s October 14 notebook event. A PDF-format repair guide was accidentally posted on Apple’s website. It detailed how the Airport Extreme Card would be replaced, and it specifically said … Read more

MSI Wind U100 – $50 MSI Rebates

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Update: October 20, 2008 Some of the prices have already dropped again: US – MSI Wind U100-016US (Black) – Amazon.com – $399.99 (After $50 Rebate) – MWave.com – $399.99 (After $50 Rebate) US – MSI Wind U100-030US (White w/Love/Heart Design) – Amazon.com – $429.99 (After … Read more

Acer Aspire One – WiMAX

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Netbook Almost a month ago, at an Acer global press conference held in Budapest, Acer made some announcements in regards to where it was going to be expanding the 8.9″ Aspire One lineup. Among those announcements and discussions, were that 3G options would be added in some areas as early as this month, while Acer planned on adding WiMAX capabilities by 2009.

Well guess what? Mark Spoonauer at LAPTOP Magazine managed to temporarily get his hands on what maybe the first netbook (or at least one of the first) to officially have Mobile WiMAX capabilities. Officially in the sense that some netbook owners have already been modding their netbooks to add in this or similar capabilities.

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MSI Wind U120 – Images, Information

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MSI Wind PC Recently we learned about new models in the MSI Wind lineup that would be coming to the US (and probably Canada) either later this year or into next.

Fudzilla managed to get their hands on some images from one of those upcoming models, the 10.2″ MSI Wind U120 netbook, as well as some additional information.

We already know the U120 (possibly the Wind 2) is going to be available sometime in December (for under $600 USD), and will feature a slightly different design (meant to be more “business-like”) as well as Solid State Drive (SSD) options.

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Lenovo X200 Tablet – More Impressions (GBM)

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Rob Bushway over at GottaBeMobile now has his hands on a new 12.1″ Lenovo ThinkPad X200 Tablet, a convertible laptop that you can use as either a Tablet PC-style device, or as a conventional notebook with a physical keyboard. Among his first impressions – The … Read more