{"id":3485,"date":"2008-09-24T10:23:15","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T15:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/?p=3485"},"modified":"2014-05-07T20:54:57","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T01:54:57","slug":"packard-bell-dot-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/2008\/09\/24\/packard-bell-dot-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Packard Bell dot Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/images\/tn\/packard-bell-dot.jpg\"  alt=\"Packard Bell dot\" width=\"150\" height=\"134\" \/> Speaking of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/netbook-clones\">re-badged netbooks\/clones<\/a>, we may have another one.  Packard Bell, which was acquired by Acer earlier this year, is going to be releasing an 8.9&#8243; netbook, the Packard Bell &#8220;dot&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It bears more than a passing resemblance to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/acer-8-9-laptop\">Acer Aspire One<\/a>.  Now Packard Bell already has one netbook, the 7&#8243; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/packard-bell-easynote-xs\">Packard Bell Easynote XS<\/a>, but unlike the VIA C7-M powered Easynote XS, the dot is powered by an Intel Atom (just like the Aspire One).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Specs:<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; Intel Atom CPU<br \/>\n&#8211; 160GB HDD<br \/>\n&#8211; 1GB of RAM<br \/>\n&#8211; Optional 6-cell battery<br \/>\n&#8211; Optional mobile broadband modules (3G)<\/p>\n<p>It should see a European release in November, for \u00c2\u00a3315 (around $580 USD).<\/p>\n<p>Read (with images): <a href=\"http:\/\/eeepc.net\/packard-bell-announce-their-first-netbook\/\">EeePC.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update: March 10, 2009, the Packard Bell Dot <a href=\"http:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/2009\/03\/11\/packard-bell-dot-cancelled\/\">has been discontinued<\/a> before it hit retail.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of re-badged netbooks\/clones, we may have another one. Packard Bell, which was acquired by Acer earlier this year, is going to be releasing an 8.9&#8243; netbook, the Packard Bell &#8220;dot&#8221;. It bears more than a passing resemblance to the Acer Aspire One. Now Packard &#8230; <a title=\"Packard Bell dot Announced\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/2008\/09\/24\/packard-bell-dot-announced\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Packard Bell dot Announced\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4,94,99,20,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}