3K Longitude 400 Announced

Another day, another netbook (well technically yesterday I suppose). 3K has announced the 3K Longitude 400, a $399 netbook/ subnotebook with a 7-inch display and powered by a 400MHz “Ingenic” CPU. 3K claims it has a “full-size” keyboard. The 7″ display has a resolution of … Read more

Dell 500 : Dell’s Netbook/Subnotebook ?

Dell Sub-Notebook UMPC Update #2 – May 28, 2008 – The Dell 500 is not the machine you were looking for. The 8.9-inch Dell Sub-notebook is referred to as the Dell Mini Inspiron

Update: (12:03am, April 23) This may not be it – I was sent an e-mail from somebody who wishes to remain anonymous stating that the Dell 500 would have a larger footprint and would not be ultraportable. If we find out anything else, we’ll be sure to post it.

A few weeks ago, we reported on several comments (including some from Michael Dell himself) that were made about a new netbook/subnotebook style device to be sold by Dell, that would be comparable to the 8.9-inch HP 2133 Mini-Note.

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Asus Eee PC 900 – Batteries, Intel Atom

Asus Eee PC 900 DigiTimes has a couple of articles up about the Asus Eee PC 900 battery life and a bit more information about when the Intel Atom-based devices will be available.

First up – Hong Kong customers of the Eee PC 900s are finding that they are getting 4-cell 4400mAh batteries instead of the 4-cell 5800mAh batteries available with some sample Eee PC 900s issued to reviewers. Asustek said it would be introducing the 5800mAh battery in later devices and that it was a mistake that review samples had the higher capacity batteries, however it is investigating replacing the 4400mAh batteries.

DigiTimes also reported that Asustek has ordered a substantial number of Intel Atom CPUs, along with Acer and Dell (which could end up in Dell’s netbook/ultraportable) and that HP has ordered a smaller number of VIA C7-M for its Mini-Note:

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OQO Model 02 and Netbooks

Couple of interesting articles on the OQO Model 02 and the impact that the “netbooks” and other smaller laptops/subnotebooks such as the Asus Eee PC could have on it. The OQO Model is a unique ultraportable – it’s more of a tablet with a slide-out … Read more

HP 2133 Mini-Note (GottaBeMobile)

Warner Crocker over at GottaBeMobile is shipping his review model of the HP 2133 Mini-Note back to HP, and posted quite a few observations about the Mini-Note. Among them: – Mini-Note does just fine for light desk (office) and web work, even running Vista on … Read more