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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, Toshiba Add WiMAX Models

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The 13.3″ Lenovo ThinkPad SL300, along with the Lenovo ThinkPad X301 have new models in their lineup (or will I should say) that are WiMax-enabled (4G). They are meant for use on Sprint’s high-speed XOHM network (launched earlier this week in Baltimore). The ThinkPad T400 … Read more

Apple: Notebook Event on October 14, 2008

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Apple MacBook Air Next Tuesday, October 14, 2008, there will indeed be an Apple event after all, and it will definitely be notebook oriented (which matches with some of the rumors we’ve seen recently).

AppleInsider has the details – an invitation sent to the media yesterday shows what appears to be an aluminum Apple notebook with the words “The spotlight turns to notebooks.“.

The event will be at the Cupertino headquarters of Apple at the “Apple Town Hall” at 10:00am (Pacific) next Tuesday. As AI points out, this has been used to make Mac-related product announcements in the past. Earlier this year, the venue was used to launch the new aluminium iMacs.

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