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Acer expects its netbook sales to rise while others give up due to iPad

Published on: 26th January, 2011

Acer hopes to preserve its sales of netbooks as other companies could fail first, according to Scott Lin, Taiwan president of the company. Some competitors drop out this year and Acer’s netbook shipments could fill the empty places. Lin also said that the market was stable at about 30 million units this year and even [...]

iPad to be sold by AT&T directly to business customers, possibly hurting RIM

Published on: 23rd October, 2010

AT&T wants to expand its direct iPad sales by selling the iPad directly to its business customers. Corporate accounts will be able to access all three 3G capacities the same day the public will, on the 28th of October. Companies will not have to use prepaid service and will have access to standard subscription data [...]

Sony’s VAIO M netbook officially announced in Europe

Published on: 21st March, 2010

Sony UK has recently announced that the VAIO M netbook will be officially launched soon in the local market. Sony has mentioned that the company’s new netbook will be available both in white and black and that it will weight 3.1lbs (a little more than expected). The six-cell battery should offer almost eight hours of [...]

Averatec launches the lightest 10-inch netbook

Published on: 6th March, 2010

On March 2nd, 2010, Averatec, which is TriGem’s label, has presented an unconventional netbook, the N1200. This 10-inch netbook is considered as currently being the lightest and thinnest portable of this size (it weighs about 2.2 pounds and is 0.9 inches thick). Averatec claims that they have achieved this “record” by using various technologies, which [...]

Alienware M11x netbook by Dell under $800

Published on: 3rd February, 2010

The upcoming Alienware M11x netbook is expected to sell at $799. Introduced this year at CES, Dell’s device integrates an Intel Core 2 Duo processor and graphics components that are similar to many 15-inch notebooks. The GeForce GT 335M switchable graphics unit supports 720-pixel playback on the 11.6-inch display of the netbook. The HDMI output [...]

ViewSonic’s 10-inch netbook running Windows 7

Published on: 20th December, 2009

VNB102 ViewBook has opened a new perspective for ViewSonic, the North American company, by its launch. It is a 10.1-inch netbook, which uses a 1024×600 LED-backlit panel and it seems to be one of the few netbooks to be released with Windows 7 Starter Edition. The netbook comes with a 1.6GHz Intel Atom CPU, a [...]