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Asus Eee PC 900

Taipei, Taiwan, April 15, 2008 – Amid the buzz of reaching a new milestone of 1 million Asus Eee PCs sold in just 5 months after its launch, ASUS has provided yet another round of excitement with its release of the new Asus Eee PC 900. This new generation of the ever popular PC packs [...]

UMPC Packard Bell Easynote XS Video Review

Superficially, the Packard Bell EasyNote XS is very similar to the Asus Eee PC. They have near-identical dimensions, weigh much the same and both have 7in, 800 x 480 screens. There’s little difference in build quality too, and the Packard Bell EasyNote feels just as solid as the Asus Eee PC. Its matt black finish [...]

Asustek to launch £199 Asus Eee PC laptop in UK

Asustek has announced that its ridiculously low-cost notebook, and challenger to Nicholas Negroponte’s OLPC, the Eee PC, will launch in the UK on 12 November.

The cost of the Asus laptop in the UK will be £219 inc VAT for the 4G model, and £199 inc VAT for the 2G Surf model in the UK.

That said, [...]

Over 50% of All Notebooks to have Flash Storage by 2010

More than half of new notebooks to use Flash drives by Q4 2009,
shouts the headline on market watcher iSuppli’s latest missive, before admitting soon after that, actually, it’s counting not just solid-state drives but also regular HDDs with integrated Flash cache and separate caches like Intel’s Turbo Memory module.
Still, it shows that non-volatile storage chips [...]