Announcements

HP Mini 1000 – Starting at $399

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HP Mini 1000 Over the last month or so, HP has been running some aggressive price drops on the 8.9″ HP 2133 Mini-Note. There was speculation that HP would be upgrading to the new VIA Nano CPU, but there also HP netbooks popping up with Intel Atoms (the “Vivienne Tam HP Mini-Note” which appeared to be a special edition launching in December).

This weekend, The Technicist mentioned the HP Mini 1000 showing up on Shopping.HP.com , as well as a hands-on at LAPTOP Magazine (that won’t be available until the 29th) with this excerpt: At long last, HP has finally released a follow-up (actually, two) to its flagship netbook, the 2133 Mini-Note. The newest model, the Mini 1000 (starting at $379; more on prices below), won’t replace.

From Shopping.HP.com/LAPTOP Mag:

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Dell Vostro A90 Launched

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Dell has a new 8.9″ Intel Atom-powered netbook coming out. Well they sort of do. It’s the Dell Vostro A90 and it’s basically a rebranded Dell Inspiron Mini 9. It was launched in Japan yesterday, but support documentation has started showing up in other countries … Read more

MSI Wind U100 – New BIOS, Numbers

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A new BIOS has been released for the 10.2″ MSI Wind U100 netbook. Normally such an update might not be too newsworthy, but this BIOS adds some unique features that some Wind owners have been waiting on for a while – they were announced by … Read more

Toshiba Portege A605 Launches

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Earlier this week, Toshiba’s Digital Products Division announced the launch of the 12.1″ Toshiba Portege A605, a budget / consumer-oriented version of the R500 / R600 series and part of the Toshiba Portege A600 line. Among the new features: “USB Sleep and Charge ports” – … Read more

ThinkFree Office Suite for Netbooks

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If you are a netbook owner, you may be looking around for an office suite that is more suited to the small form factor displays we are seeing with the 7″, 9″, and 10″ displays and their non-standard resolutions (such as 1024×600 or 800×480). Look … Read more