Sales and Deals – Feb 12, 2009

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There are some decent laptop sales this week, thanks to a couple of holidays/events in the US – President’s Day and Valentine’s Day.

OnSale:
– $25 Off – ASUS Eee PC 1000HE 10-Inch – 1.66GHz Intel Atom Processor, 1GB RAM, 160 GB HD – Blue Now only $369.99 (was $394.99)
– $25 Off – ASUS Asus Eee PC 1000HE 10-Inch – 1.66 GHz Intel Atom, 1GB RAM, 160GB HD – Black Now only $369.99 (was $394.99)
– $121 Off – Lenovo IdeaPad S10e – Intel Atom N270 1.6GHz Notebook Now only $298.99 (was $419) + FREE Printer after rebate

Lenovo:
– 3 day sale at Lenovo ecoupon USPTHREEDAYSALE
– 15% off all IdeaPads (except S10) + 20% off consumer service upgrades Feb 10-16-use USPIDEASAVINGS for IdeaPad Y & U Series
– $399 IdeaPad S10 Bundle ecoupon- USPBUNDLES10 Feb 10-16
– Click here to get to ecoupons at Lenovo for additional 5% to 10% off select ThinkPads

Lenovo Canada:
– Save an extra 10-15% on Ultraportable Lenovo Notebooks use -CAPULTRAPORTABLE -Feb 10-16
– Save up to 20% on top of sale price during the Lenovo 72 Hour Sale- CAP72HOURSALE -From Feb 11-13

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10.1-inch Acer Aspire One – in Stock in US

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It looks like the 10.1″ Acer Aspire One (aka the AOD150) is available at some online retailers in the US, at least the Sapphire Blue version (AOD150-1165- Blue). We had been told by Acer that it would be sometime in the first two weeks of … Read more

MSI Wind U120 – Now in Gray/Black

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The not-very-upgrade-friendly 10.1″ MSI Wind U120 has received a minor update. Namely, instead of the original black and white color scheme, it’s now available in gray and black. The model # is U120-001US and the product number is # 9S7-N03112-001. It’s available for $429.99, and … Read more

Dell Starts up Adamo by Dell Campaign

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Dell is starting up an advertising campaign for their upcoming 13″ Dell Adamo, a high-end ultra-thin laptop designed to compete with the Apple MacBook Air and Voodoo Envy 133. They are putting quite a bit of emphasis on the design of the Adamo itself. The … Read more

NVIDIA Ion – Certified for Vista, Runs Windows 7

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There was a joint press conference held today in Taipei, Taiwan between Microsoft and NVIDIA, showcasing the new NVIDIA Ion platform for netbooks/nettops and other ultraportable or low-power devices. It was hosted by NVIDIA’s general managers for their MCP and notebook business units, and involved Microsoft’s Senior Director for OEMs and Senior Manager for the Windows client business group. It was announced that the Ion platform (NVIDIA’s GeForce 9400M graphics chipset and Intel’s Atom CPU) has been officially certified by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows Vista Premium.

NVIDIA also showed off the Ion running Microsoft Windows 7. Existing chipsets (namely the Intel 945G) do not fully support DirectX 10 and other graphics features, while the Ion platform/chipset is able to handle them very well. In fact, the demonstration involved running a full 1080p move in the background while NVIDIA was giving the Powerpoint demonstration. They also described being able to encode/transcode video in the background while watching HD video. They also demonstrated “Left 4 Dead” running in 720p video (the game is very graphics-intensive).

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