submitted 65 days ago by UMPCPortal (via umpcportal.com)
Fresh from Sascha (eeepcpnews.de) at Computex. Here's one of the first ever hands-on videos of the Acer Aspire One. OOPS. Problem with video. Should be up in a short while. Specifications Launch info and live images are available here.
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The Acer Aspire has been officially launched. I think we need to go straight to a photo first… Click to Enlarge. And then there's the second good bit of news - the price. $379. The specifications look reasonable and include Intel Atom @ 1.6Ghz 8.9" LED-backlit 1024×600 screen, 512MB of RAM Linupus Lite OS 8GB of
submitted 66 days ago by UMPCPortal (via umpcportal.com)
Lately it has seemed like a new netbook is announced weekly. With so many players hoping to turn a profit in this now hot computing sector, it's no wonder that the demand for Intel's Atom CPU is high. Sean Maloney, Intel's executive vice-president commented in an interview with the Financial Times saying that Intel had
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Jkk of Jkkmobile has unearthed battery figures for the new Atom based Eee 901. Conflicting with the rumored 7 hours of battery life, the official figures are 4.2-6 hours for the 6 cell 6600 mAh (48wh) battery. Jkk also reports that the 901's batteries will not be compatible with previous Eee models. Weight of the
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A new Intel Atom based “CW0A1" netbook is said to be making an appearance at Computex this year. Its external design appears to be roughly based around the Easynote reference design that was seen quite a while ago. The 8.9" screen, 1024×600 res, and optional WiMax module position this netbook to be a competitor to
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Fresh news from Computex! IVT has just announced that they have ported the Bluesoleil 5.0 bluetooth stack found on lots of computers to Linux. The program retains its GUI and user friendliness and is supposedly ported specificaly for UMPCs. However with all the naming confusion thats around and the fact that very few UMPCs actually run
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Something is up here. Something exciting perhaps. Either someone had a bit too much love for OQO's ID when they hashed together a design for Nvidia's computex webpage or OQO are indeed going to use their industrial design skills to release an ARM-based MID. Oh the mind boggles. Android? Windows Mobile 7?
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It looks like Elonex are just about to launch some additions to their notebook range. They currently sell the Elonex One in the UK which is a 99 pound ($200) netbook with a detachable keyboard but if you take a look at the new products section on the Computex website you'll find images of 4
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Maybe I should have waited a few more weeks to write that article about how the smartphone platform is developing into a mobile computing platform. I said that it could be months before we see any sort of reality but today Qualcomm have demonstrated an Inventec OEM mini-laptop running on a Snapdragon ARM-core processor. There aren't
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This should be music to the ears of many a pro-mobile fan. The Isaiah CPU from VIA, the CPU expected to return 2-4 times performance over the C7 CPU and said to be a pin-for-pin replacement, will launch with a ‘U' version that will go right down to 1.0Ghz. The TDP at 5W is
