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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Lenovo Upgrading S10, Dropping Prices

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Lenovo IdeaPad S10 The Lenovo IdeaPad S10 netbook is barely even out (people just started receiving their S10s in the past few weeks) and already it appears that Lenovo is tweaking some things.

First off, they’ve dropped the price by $40 down to $399 at the US online store (except for the red model). $399 now gets you:
– 1.6Ghz Intel Atom CPU
– 512MB RAM
– Windows XP Home
– 80GB HDD
– 3-cell battery

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Toshiba Portege M750, R600, A600 Announced

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Toshiba Portege M750 Toshiba Canada has announced several new ultraportable Portege models, all with 12.1″ LED-backlit displays, including a “convertible” Tablet PC / laptop. All are loaded with Microsoft Windows Vista and are based on Intel’s Centrino 2 platform, with Intel GMA X4500 graphics. While the R600 and M750 are replacing existing 12.1″ laptops, the A600 is the first of its kind in Toshiba’s lineup with a 12.1″ display. The A600 is kind of a budget laptop compared to the other two (with a starting price of around $1320 USD) – while the R600 may share some of the same components, it is lighter and overall smaller than the A600. All three have spill-resistant keyboards

Toshiba Portege R600
– Ultra Low Voltage Intel Core 2 Duo SU9300 / SU9400
– Solid State Drive (SSD) Options
– Up to 9 hours of battery life
– Starts at $2,399 CAD – $2095 USD
– 1GB built-in RAM, 1 memory slot (upto 5GB Total)
– Weighs just 2.4 pounds / 1.1 kg

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Asustek: Dual-Core Intel Atoms, Touchscreens

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Back in January of this year, there were rumors that Asustek would be adding a touch panel Asus Eee PC to the next-generation Eee PC lineup. A few weeks after that, Asustek said no. Since then, there have been many do-it-yourself touchscreen mods made to … Read more

Intel Buys Netbook.com

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Intel Atom Almost everybody gives credit to Intel for popularizing the term netbook – when the Asus Eee PCs first started showing up, they were being called sub-notebooks, sub-laptops, mini-notebooks, UMPCs (which really confused things, as UMPCs generally had a specific form factor that they followed), ultraportables, lightweights, etc. Basically, there was a heckuva lot of confusion among various companies and various websites over what to call these devices.

Intel stayed consistent in their labeling them “netbooks” and some manufacturers followed their lead.

In what appears to be a show of confidence in the form factor, it’s now come out that Intel has bought netbook.com (how much, we don’t know).

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