UMPC

Announced: Kohjinsha SR Series

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Kohjinsha SR Kohjinsha has announced a new ultra mobile PC (UMPC) or ultraportable laptop/tablet (convertible), with a 7″ LED-backlit widescreen touchscreen display, the Kohjinsha SR series. It’s powered by an Intel A110 CPU (800MHz).

It’s height is 1.3 inches (33 mm) and it weighs around 2.42 pounds (1.1kg). Now you might be saying “that’s kind of thick and heavy for a UMPC”, but here’s the kicker: they fit a DVD Multi/Dual-Layer DVD writer into this thing. That’s pretty amazing, and a first for devices in this range.

It comes with a stylus for the touchscreen, it also has a “Quiet” or “Silent Mode” and includes a hardware button for turning off CD/DVD Drive Power.

It gets up to 7.2 hours of battery life with the large battery installed, according to Kohjinsha.

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Dell to Produce 8.9 – 9-inch Mini Notebook

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Dell Mini Inspiron Update: May 28, 2008 – it is now called the Dell Mini Inspiron. The HP 2133 Mini-Note PC and Acer’s upcoming Aspire offering won’t be the only small/ultra-portable laptops joining the Asus Eee PC 900 and Fujitsu LifeBook P1620 in the 8.9 – 9-inch range for netbooks/subnotebooks

Dell appears to be on its way to producing a machine in this range – lost in the hoopla over HP’s indtruction of the 2133 Mini-Note this week, are a few tantalizing bits of news coming straight from Michael Dell himself.

The Austin-American Statesman reported that in reference to Asustek’s Eee PC and Hewlett-Packard’s Mini-Note, CEO Michael Dell said yesterday, while on a trip to Israel, that Dell would be producing a similar model sometime in the next three-six months and that it would be running Linux.

San Jose Mercury News quoted Michael Dell as saying:

“We will introduce a similar laptop…We do see opportunities for very interesting products that are smaller and lighter and address the more mobile users in a very cost-effective way….”

“Stay tuned……We will have some interesting products coming in that space over the next two quarters.”

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Official: HP 2133 Mini-Note PC

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Surprise, Surprise, HP has officially announced the HP 2133 Mini-Note PC this morning. It will be starting at $499 and will be available later this month. It’s being geared towards the education market as well as those seeking a very mobile/lightweight notebook (or subnotebook as … Read more

Review: HP 2133 Mini-Note (LAPTOP Mag)

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The rumored launch date of the HP 2133 Mini-Note was supposedly this week, and it looks like it could be the case (Amazon links, information). Why? Because LAPTOP Magazine has published a hands-on video as well as their review of the HP 2133 Mini-Note. That … Read more

HP Compaq 2133 Mini-Note at Amazon

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We had about half a dozen people e-mail this (thanks by the way), and it looks like 8.9-inch HP Compaq 2133 or the HP 2133 Mini-Note as it is now known, is popping up at Amazon. The model description is: HP 2133 Mini-Note PC – … Read more