Nov 17

Sony applies next-gen snowflake tech to boost VAIO W’s appeal

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Sony applies next-gen snowflake tech to boost VAIO W's appeal

When Sony’s VAIO W netbook was released, we said the company would “have to do better than put a pretty face on a vanilla set of innards to get our next five Benjamins.” So what has the company done to raise the appeal of its little netbook? Boosted the processor? Added a big SSD? Lowered the price? Nah, it went ahead and painted some snowflakes on the lid. Pretty though they may be they still hide the same 10.1-inch, 1366 x 768 LCD, 1.6GHz Atom, and 1GB of RAM. There are some improvements: storage is upped a bit, a 250GB HDD instead of 160, and it now includes Windows 7 Starter instead of XP. And there are snowflakes. Still $499. Get yours before they melt!

[Via Sony Insider]

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Sony applies next-gen snowflake tech to boost VAIO W’s appeal originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:17:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oct 16

Hitachi exhibits 10-inch glasses-free 3D display

Posted in: 10-inch, ceatec, projector, Today's Chili

Hitachi‘s face-recognizing, power-saving plasma may have been the outfit’s show-stopper at CEATEC, but this little bugger here showed some pretty fantastic potential as well. The 10-inch 3D display, more formally known as the Full Parallax 3D TV, one-upped most every other 3D display at the show thanks to its ability to showcase dimensions sans any glasses. Unfortunately, the native resolution is just 640 x 480, and yes, it really is just 10-inches in size. In due time, the outfit hopes to scale up to screen sizes that may actually be appealing to end users by utilizing multiple projectors (each of which with a 800 x 600 resolution), though a 4K x 2K 3D display (of the glasses-free variety) is still probably a couple of trade shows out. At least.

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Hitachi exhibits 10-inch glasses-free 3D display originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Aug 12

Dell inadvertently throws Vostro 10 out there, quickly reels it back in

Posted in: 10-inch, leak, netbook, Today's Chili

Dell and leaks go together like peas in a pod, and just months after we saw the outfit’s Vostro 1220 sneak out ahead of schedule, it seems as if another in the biz-minded line has found its way onto the web. Reportedly, Dell hosted up a few images (which have since been yanked) of a so-called Vostro 10, which seems to resemble the newer Inspiron line in design and looks to boast an almost unheard-of-at-this-size integrated optical drive. Unless Dell’s just playing games (our wager is “no”), the unit should get official in the near future in black, red and blue. ‘Course, the specs, price and actual ship date is anyone’s guess, but feel free to pontificate in comments below.

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Dell inadvertently throws Vostro 10 out there, quickly reels it back in originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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May 06

ASUS releases new Eee PC 1008HA Seashell down by Swansea

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ASUS releases new Eee PC 1008HA Seashell down by Swansea

ASUS is finally ready to start selling the latest installment in the Eee PC family, the 1008HA Seashell that we’ve seen popping up here and there at various prices. The official, tax-inclusive UK price of £379 is now confirmed, which is perhaps a little steep for this svelte but otherwise identical revision to the franchise, still offering that good ‘ol 1.6GHz processor, 160GB hard disk, 10-inch screen, and GMA graphics. Look for these to start shipping in about two weeks to stylish Brits, while we elsewhere in the world will just have to keep waiting.

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ASUS releases new Eee PC 1008HA Seashell down by Swansea originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 06 May 2009 08:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apr 02

Samsung’s 2.1-channel rocking N120 netbook now available for pre-order

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Samsung's 2.1-channel rocking N120 netbook now available for pre-order

While most complain about slow CPU speeds on netbooks, the thing they universally lack is a decent sound system. If nothing else Samsung’s N120 could be an improvement there, featuring enough bezel to house a pair of speakers, and there’s room for what must be the world’s smallest subwoofer in there somewhere. Of course, all that bezel was really to make room for a bigger keyboard, but we already knew that, and we now know the thing is showing up at retailers across the web for pre-order at prices falling in the $450 – $475 range and colors at either end of the light spectrum: black or white. With that keyboard, those speakers, and 10.5 hours of battery life, this sounds like a solid entrant to the netbook races, especially for anyone more interested in sound than color.

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Samsung’s 2.1-channel rocking N120 netbook now available for pre-order originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 03

More 10-inch Acer Aspire One rumors trickle out

Posted in: 10-inch, netbook, rumor, Today's Chili

We’d already gotten a solid word from Acer Taiwan president Scott Lin that there would indeed be a 10-inch Aspire One in early 2009, and now we’ve got some purported pictures and informations to chew on. According to the Aspire One fan-blog macles*, the upcoming revision will come in white, black and red flavors, with a 10.1-inch screen (at the same 1024 x 600 resolution of the existing model) and options for 3G and Bluetooth 2.0+EDR. Perhaps most exciting — to us non-mutants, anyways — is the removal of those pesky trackpad-flanking mouse buttons, with a regular-looking button below the trackpad instead doing the honors. Less exciting, however, is the purported lack of Linux and SSD SKUs. The laptop also dropped its Storage Expansion slot in lieu of a good old-fashioned multi-card reader. All-in-all, it sounds like some very mainstream tweaks to an already ultra-popular netbook, and we can’t fault Acer for that. Word is the new Aspire One will be landing in February, no mention of price just yet.

[Via jkkmobile]

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More 10-inch Acer Aspire One rumors trickle out originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 03 Jan 2009 16:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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