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Aftermarket 10-cell battery creates Eee PC 901: Hammerhead Edition

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Posted by Thomas Ricker from Engadget.
Like aftermarket batteries do ya? Just keep this picture in mind danger-boy when you’re ordering a 10-cell, 13,000mAh Li-ion battery from eBay for your Eee PC 901. Also available in black to match the depths of your shame for turning your ultra-portable into a semi-luggable. One more for grins after the break.

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Aftermarket 10-cell battery creates Eee PC 901: Hammerhead Edition originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 10 Dec 2008 06:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Intel’s 32nm chips ready for MIDs and netbooks in 2009


Posted by Thomas Ricker from Engadget.
In 2005 Intel revealed its 65-nm manufacturing process, then 45-nm in 2007. Today, in keeping with its “tick-tock” strategy, Intel is announcing a further shrinkage to its manufacturing process as it ends the development phase for 32-nm chip circuitry. That puts the chips on a production schedule for Q4 2009 — interesting as Intel’s rumored 32-nm Medfield chip wasn’t expected until the first half of 2010. According to Intel, the new chips incorporate second-generation high-k + metal gate technology with transistors that switch 22% faster than its current 45-nm Penryn chips. Why should you care? Well, the smaller chips are cheaper to manufacture which should translate to consumer savings. They also require less power than Intel’s notoriously power-friendly Atom-class chips.

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NVIDIA chipset support rumored to be coming to Atom-based nettops

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
Posted by Donald Melanson from Engadget.

We’ve already heard about NVIDIA’s apparent interest in getting into the netbook space, despite the fact that it dropped its own grand designs with VIA not too long ago, and it now looks like it could be wrangling its way into other Atom-based territory as well, at least if DigiTimes’ latest reporting is to be believed. Supposedly, NVIDIA has been working on getting its MCP79 chipset to support Intel’s Atom processors, but it’s apparently only focusing on desktop-bound nettops during the “initial period,” and leaving the more plentiful netbooks for another day. Unfortunately, there aren’t many more specifics than that, but ASUS, Gigabyte and MSI are apparently welcoming the partnership, and saying that it’ll give them “more pricing flexibility.”

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NVIDIA chipset support rumored to be coming to Atom-based nettops originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:47:00 EST.

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Lenovo drops IdeaPad S10 pricing across the board


Posted by Paul Miller from Engadget.

A mere two days after launching a large capacity version of its multi-hued IdeaPad S10 netbook, Lenovo’s gone and chopped prices through and through, with specialty-color netbooks that used to retail for $439 landing at $359, and the boring black or white models retailing for $349, down from $399. Large capacity versions, with their fancy 1GB of RAM and 160GB hard drives go for $399 and $409 now, respectively. That’s a savings of $50 or $80 for all you math whizzes out there, which is great but Lenovo is certainly not the only one to be pushing down netbook price points to what one might call “recession levels.”

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Lenovo drops IdeaPad S10 pricing across the board originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 09 Dec 2008 10:52:00 EST.

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Gateway goes netbook in Singapore with the LT1001G, an Acer rebadge


Posted by Paul Miller from Engadget.

Now that Acer’s Aspire One is on top, there’s really little shame in rebadging the popular netbook with everyone’s favorite cow-themed computer brand and shipping it on over to Singapore, which is what Acer-owned Gateway has apparently done with the LT1001G. Details are slim, but specs are pretty standard, with a 1.6GHz Atom processor, 1GB of RAM and a 160GB HDD. It’ll retail for $688 Singapore dollars (about $458 US), and is accompanied by a few other low and high-end laptops to help mark the company’s re-emergence in Singapore after splitting nearly eight years ago — we’d say we’re looking forward to seeing the netbook in the rest of the world, but we pretty much already have.

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Gateway goes netbook in Singapore with the LT1001G, an Acer rebadge originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Acer takes the “most netbooks sold” crown from ASUS


Posted by Laura June from Engadget.

The hotter-than-ever netbook market — which has seemingly been headed Acer’s way for a while now — has seen its numbers for the third quarter of 2008 arrive, and the Aspire One has indeed overtaken ASUS Eee PC as top dog in units moved. Acer’s captured 38.3 percent of the market share, selling 2.15 million netbooks, while ASUS sold about 1.7 million, or 30.3 percent. Possibly adding insult to injury, we hear that an XP-loaded Aspire One can be yours for $299 today at Best Buy. We doubt ASUS will be taking its toys and going home any time soon, but we might’ve heard a few sniffles coming from its corner during recess.

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HP’s Mini 1000 offers Qualcomm Gobi WWAN chip as option

Monday, December 8th, 2008
Posted by Darren Murph from Engadget.

We knew good and well HP’s Mini 1000 netbook had a thing for integrated 3G, but we never knew it played both sides of the proverbial field. After noticing not two, but three WWAN options on the CTO pages at HP, jkOnTheRun wrote in to figure out what was going on. In sum, those uncomfortable with choosing a dedicated AT&T or Verizon WWAN module can opt for an alternative that handles both networks — and at no extra cost. HP has confirmed that the $199 option is indeed the two-faced Qualcomm Gobi, which theoretically allows you to use mobile broadband services from AT&T and Verizon if you happen to either relocate or have subscriptions with both.

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Alpha 400: the crappiest netbook you’ll ever hate


Posted by Joshua Topolsky from Engadget.

Looking for the ultimate in nerve-shatteringly cheap cheapo netbooks? Don’t want to break the $200 price point? Introduce yourself to the Alpha 400 — a tiny “computer” with about as much processing power as your last TI scientific calculator. The miniature laptop sports a 400MHz (megahertz!) MIPS CPU, 128MB (megabytes!) of RAM, a mind-blowing 1GB (gigabyte!) of flash storage, 802.11b (b!), a 7-inch “display,” and support for SD cards up to 32GB (gigabytes!). Seriously, this thing is essentially a glorified pocket dictionary, but who are we to question its awesome $189.95 price tag? Oh wait, we’re Engadget. Yeah, we don’t recommend this.

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Alpha 400: the crappiest netbook you’ll ever hate originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 08 Dec 2008 12:06:00 EST.

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HP Mini 1000 to get $40 price cut

Saturday, December 6th, 2008
Posted by Darren Murph from Engadget.

What’s this? A $40 price cut on an item that’s likely on at least one gift list that you’re currently staring at? Huzzah! Unless, of course, you’re one of those proactive individuals who went out and already nabbed one. In all seriousness, Laptoping has reportedly received an email notification from Hewlett-Packard that the sleek and sexy Mini 1000 netbook will stoop to $359.99 starting tomorrow. That’ll net you a 10-inch panel, Atom N270 CPU (1.6GHz), 1GB of RAM, an 8GB SSD, 3-cell battery and Windows XP Home. There’s no word on whether the stylish Vivienne Tam Edition will receive a drop of her own, but we wouldn’t count on it (yet).

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HP Mini 1000 to get $40 price cut originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 06 Dec 2008 22:25:00 EST.

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Qualcomm shows off Snapdragon-based netbook / tablet concept

Friday, December 5th, 2008
Posted by Donald Melanson from Engadget.

It’s already doubled the power of its SnapDragon platform with a new dual-core processor, but it looks like Qualcomm is now really making a push to take on Intel in the netbook / MID space, with it recently showing off a seemingly fully-functional concept device. As you can see above, the device is a convertible tablet, which should surely make Intel’s head spin, as will the fact that it is running a curiously familiar-looking OS. Being a concept, however, Qualcomm isn’t offering too many specifics just yet, although it does say that devices like this one should last for four to six hours on a single charge, and that the first batch of devices based on the platform (but not necessarily this device) should be available sometime next year, with twelve different companies having already signed up to build devices.

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