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Compaq Mini 702 Netbook

netbooks — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 04:24:12 +0000

Compaq brings it’s top-of-the-line and high-quality products like their desktop and laptop computers and brings it to the world of netbooks with the Mini 702. It has everything you would expect to find in a netbook, such as the small but sufficient Intel Atom N270 processor, which is still more than you’ll find in many netbooks and 60 GB of space on the hard drive. While this won’t allow you to store an endless amount of media on your netbook, you’ll be able to store what’s most important to you and is perfect for this compact and portable model. The screen is generous for most netbooks, at 10.2″ and it also comes with the Windows XP operating system, which is extremely user-friendly and gives you the finest quality in all of the tasks you’ll need to do on the go.

With the Mini 702’s wireless capabilities, you’ll also be able to browse the Internet and check email while on the go and when cyberspace just isn’t enough to keep in touch, use the integrated webcam to talk to friends and family face-to-face. Also built into this beauty is Bluetooth capabilities, which is almost unheard of in netbooks. You’ll also find in this Compaq built-in speakers so you can enjoy all of your media and it all come wrapped in a pretty, shiny black package! The Compaq Mini 702 netbook brings features to the netbook that give it a slight edge above its competitors but at the same price. And you can’t ignore the fact that it looks great!

From: John Lewis
Price: £299.00

Lenovo planning Ideapad S20 netbook

news — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:45:21 +0000

News is that Lenovo’s latest form Ideapad series is S 20 netbook. Reported by Digitimes, though there is no official confirmation yet; Ideapad S20, like the earlier model, Ideapad S10, it will be powered by Intel’s N280 processor but the netbook will have a 12 inch display. It is good news for those who find keyboards of 9” netbooks too cramped.

There is fierce competition among the 10 inch netbooks and so everyone is coming up with 12 inch netbooks now. What these 12” netbooks are also doing is eating up the laptop market. With a bigger display and more keyboard space these netbooks offer, lesser and lesser people are going to buy a low end laptop now.

Coming back to Lenovo, Ideapad is their consumer oriented mini laptops. S20 is an upgrade to the Ideapad S10, thus will be very similar. The build quality should be good as expected of Lenovo. The netbook will have a 12 inch LCD, backlit display. The S20 netbook will come with 1.66 GHz, Intel’s Atom N280 CPU and GN 40 chipset and loaded with Windows XP. The Ideapad S10 netbook had usual ports; BGA, Ethernet, headphone, mic, and 4 in 1 card reader. It had two USB ports, one lesser than normally given. It remains to be seen whether S20 will have three USB ports. Given, S20’s increased size; the keyboard is bound to be spacious.

Since it means that this would go against the Intel’s restrictions which state that netbooks can not be bigger than 10 inch, Lenovo will not get the preferential pricing which other vendors of 10 inch netbooks get and Lenovo will have to pay 10 $ premium for Atom chips. This decision of 12” netbook may surprise many but it may be because the competition is growing in the 10 inch category. In fact, this year itself Dell was the first one to come out with its Mini 12 netbook. Soon Samsung followed with its own 12 inch netbook but it is using Via Technologies chip instead of Intel. Looks like companies are trying to find a middle ground between very small netbooks and bigger laptops and most of the companies are going for 11 and 12 inch size screens.

The netbook will be priced at approximately $586 which is higher compared to Asus EEE PC 1004 DN, its direct competitor, which has N280 and Intel GN 40 chipset and t a much lesser price $ 379. No details yet about its availability.

Advent 4211c Netbook

netbooks — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:58:32 +0000

With this model of netbook from Advent, you’ll be sure to have everything you need right at your fingertips with enough space on the 120 GB of hard drive to hold all of your most important files and documents and the 1 GB of memory is sufficient enough to let you browse the Internet quickly, check your email, and to do all of it while going back and forth from your other programs – and you won’t need to wait a moment for any of it! Add to that the fact that the wide 10.2″ display will make sure that every image is crystal-clear and that it runs on the Windows XP Home Edition operating system and already, it’s worth the price. But add to that the many bonus features such as Bluetooth connectivity capabilities, built-in webcam, built-in speakers, the fact that it’s wireless-enabled, and 3 USB connections that will turn this netbook practically into a PC and you’re definitely getting more than you paid for!

Price: £274.02
From: PC World

Advent 4213 Netbook

netbooks — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:08:42 +0000

With the Advent 4213 you’ll find that you get all the features that come with most netbooks, such as a hard drive with 160 GB and a memory capacity of 1 GB but the added bonus that comes with this Advent is the embedded Sim so that you can use mobile broadband without needing to use a dongle.

Running on an Intel Atom N270 energy-efficient processor, the netbook is extremely portable weighing just over 1 kilogram and a screen of 10.2″. The screen size is quite impressive and the LCD display will always make sure that your graphics are easy to see and use! The Advent 4213 also has built-in speakers, is wireless enabled and uses the Microsoft Genuine Windows XP Home operating software. In the world of netbooks, this model is sure to bring you everything you need out of your computer while maintaining a small and compact design.

Price Found: £279.99
From: Dixons