To commemorate the upcoming 2010 Winter Olympics Games, Acer will release a limited edition Acer Aspire AS1410 Olympic Edition for the Japanese market. Limited to just 1,500 units, this ultraportable laptop will feature an 11.6-inch 1366 x 768 LED-backlight display, an Intel GMA 4500MHD graphics card, a 2GB RAM, a 250GB hard drive, a built-in webcam, a 5-in-1 media card reader, an HDMI port, WiFi and a 6-cell battery. This limited edition laptop will go on sale in Japan starting on November 27th for 79,800 Yen (about $897). [PC Watch]
Asus has officially announced the availability of its first ION-powered laptop for the US market. Priced at $499, the Eee PC 1201N features a 12-inch (1366 x 768) LCD display with an nVidia ION graphics card, a 250GB hard drive, and an Intel Atom 330 dual core processor. Other specs include a trio of USB ports, an SDHC card slot, a VGA output, WiFi, Bluetooth, and an HDMI port. The Asus Eee PC 1201N will be released in mid-December 2009. [Liliputing]
Here are some leaked infos of Lenovo’s upcoming business-class netbook, the ThinkPad X100e. According to Chip Online, this ultraportable netbook will feature an 11.6-inch 1366 x 768 display, an AMD Athlon Neo MV-40 CPU, up to 4GB RAM, up to 320GB hard drive, a 0.3MP webcam, a 4-in-1 card reader, 3 USB ports, a VGA output, WiFi, 3G + Bluetooth (optional), a 3- or 6-cell battery and run on either Windows 7 Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium or Pro (32bit or 64bit) OS. Price will start at $449. [netbooknews.de]
The highly anticipated Dell Adamo XPS is now available in the US market. Measuring 340mm x 272mm x 9.99mm and weighing 1.44Kg, the laptop features a 13.4-inch widescreen LCD display with a 1.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, a 4GB of RAM, a 128GB SSD, and Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit version). Other specs include a couple of USB 2.0 ports, a headphone jack, a webcam, a Mini DisplayPort, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.1. Its battery provides up to 5-hours and 17 minutes of operating time. Folks in the US can purchase the Dell Adamo XPS for $1,799. [Dell USA]
Here’s another budget-friendly tablet netbook from a Chinese PC maker Malata, the R108T. Available in a range of colors including Ferrari Red, Piano Black, Coffee, Gold and Champagne, the netbook offers a 10.1-inch 1024 x 600 rotating screen with touch feature, an Intel Atom N270 1.6GHz CPU, a 1GB RAM, a 160GB hard drive, a 1.3MP webcam, WiFi, a 3400mAh battery and runs on Windows 7 OS. The R108T is currently only available in China for a price tag of $439. More
The Asus UL30Vt is actually a successor to the previously released Asus UL30. Powered by Windows 7 as its operating system, the new model comes jam packed with a 1.2GHz Intel Celeron processor or a 1.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, an Intel GMA X4500MHD graphics chip or and nVidia GeForce G210M 512MB graphics card, a 2GB of DDR3 RAM (upgradable up to 4GB), a 13.3-inch LCD display with a resolution of 1366 x 768, and up to 500GB of hard disk drive. The new Asus UL30Vt also features a 0.3-megapixel webcam, a 4-in-1 card reader, WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1, and the choice of a 4-cell or 8-cell battery. Pricing info is still unknown. [Asus]
