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MSI Wind U100 at Best Buy

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MSI Wind PC Updated: MSI Wind U100 at Best Buy for $350 (Nov 2008).

Last Friday, an MSI executive in the US mentioned that the MSI Wind U100 would be coming to an American retail chain this week.

Our best guesses would be Best Buy or Circuit City, and it appears that it was indeed Best Buy, according to the press release and other sites (including LAPTOP Magazine).

The two possible models:
– U100-036US (White)
– U100-016US (Black)
– There is no pink model that matches the specifications.

Specifications:
– $399.99
– 3-Cell Battery
– 120GB HDD
– 1GB RAM
– Windows XP Home

There is no date on when these will be available in store, other than later this month. They are not even listed in Best Buy’s online system as of this morning.

Press release is below.

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Lenovo IdeaPad S10 – Some Shipping

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We’ve had a few emails from people today who mention that their pre-orders of the 10″ Lenovo IdeaPad S10s have had the dates changed to later in October (almost a month from now to be exact). We also had an email from somebody who said … Read more

Dell Moving to All LED-Backlit Displays

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PC Magazine is reporting that Dell will be making the transition to all LED-backlit displays for its laptops by 2010. They told PC Magazine that by the middle of this December, around 66% of their existing Latitude E-series laptops will be shipped with LED-backlit displays … Read more

Netbook Sales and the Industry

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Asus Eee PC 2G DigiTimes has an article up about how Asustek is using netbooks to take on the top notebook suppliers in Japan next year.

Their Asus Eee PC line (including the 7″ Eee PC 700 series as well as the 8.9″ 900 series) now accounts for around 85% of their sales in Japan (although Asustek wants to increase their regular-sized notebook sales which would drop that number).

Through August, Asustek has sold 188,000 Eee PC netbooks in Japan through August.

The 1st place Eee PC901-X and 2nd place Eee PC 4G-X accounted for around 70% of the under 100,000 Yen (US$946.52), while the 3rd place 8.9″ Acer Aspire One accounted for 9% of sales, with the 4th place 10″ MSI Wind U100 account for 8% of sales. HP’s 8.9″Mini-Note 2133 came in sixth.

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Toshiba and Netbooks

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Update: Toshiba has rolled out the Toshiba Satellite NB105. Could Toshiba be jumping into the netbook market? An anonymous user over at jkOnTheRun has mentioned that Toshiba has been showing off a netbook with decidedly normal netbook specifications: – 8.9″ 1024×600 display – Intel Atom … Read more