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Lenovo IdeaPad U330 Review (LAPTOP Magazine)

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LAPTOP Magazine has reviewed a 13.3″ budget offering from Lenovo. It’s the Lenovo IdeaPad U330. It’s not exactly a budget offering, but the current prices, starting at $1,199, certainly push it down there. While it shares some characteristics of the 11.1″ Lenovo IdeaPad U110, it’s … Read more

Windows 7, SSD Netbooks, UMPCs

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Windows 7 A couple of more ultraportables have had Microsoft Windows 7 pre-beta installed on them, with information / benchmarks listed.

UMPC Fever has a forum member who installed Windows 7 on a Fujitsu U2010, which worked great, from the included screenshots. They were able to use Vista drivers, and it was supported better than XP. They mentioned it was faster than Vista.

Ultramobile PC Tips had news of another forum user on a Spanish-language site who had installed Windows 7 on a Gigabyte UMPC U60. They reported that it booted faster than Windows XP Tablet PC Edition (SP3) and runs just about as fast overall. It also had no problems with the U60’s WiFi (Vista did). (via SlashGear)

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Apple: Netbooks, Sales, Presidents

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Electronista mentions a report by ChangeWave that says the iPhone and MacBook lineup put Apple in a better position to survive any drops in spending over the coming holidays, given the current economic client. ChangeWave makes the claim that 33% of studied notebook buyers in … Read more

Fujitsu LifeBook T2020 Review (TabletPCReview)

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Yesterday, Tiffany Boggs over at TabletPCReview published their review of the new Fujitsu LifeBook T2020, an Intel Core 2 Duo Ultra Low Voltage (ULV) powered convertible. Due to its pivoting display, it can be converted back and forth between a Tablet PC form factor and … Read more

More on AMD’s Netbook CPU Plans

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Back in July, we mentioned that AMD was planning on competing with Intel’s Atom CPU for netbooks. This after having criticized netbooks in the past. AMD is apparently going to be announcing a new CPU aimed squared at Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) and netbooks, with … Read more