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So, we’ve got some good news and bad news. The good news is that Nokia‘s already offering up its Booklet 3G netbook for pre-order over in Italy, which is becoming an all-too-familiar scene for Nokia wares. The bad news is that the posted price is, um, absurd. During a keynote at Nokia World 09, listeners were told that the Windows 7-powered machine would ring up at “just” €570, yet Nokia’s own Italian e-store has it listed for €699. That’s just over a grand in Greenbacks, though we get the feeling it’ll be selling for substantially less once the feel-good emotions fade and cold, hard economics take their toll.

Update: As pointed out in the comments, the announced €570 price was likely pre-tax and pre-carrier subsidy as is typical for Nokia’s European announcements. The €699 price is thus VAT inclusive.

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Nokia puts Booklet 3G netbook up for pre-order… in Italy originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 12 Sep 2009 05:51:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We know how it is — you were an early adopter of the netbook craze sweeping every nation from Austria to Australia, but now that 11-inches is looking like the new de facto standard, your old 7-incher just isn’t cutting the mustard anymore. So what do you do? You mod that sucker into a kitchen cabinet door, of course. You’ll need a 7-inch USB touchscreen to layer atop an EeePC 701, along with a few other bits and bobs, but the most important thing to remember is a spectacularly loony soundtrack. Or so the video after the break seems to instruct us.

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Video: EeePC modded into a WalleeePC originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We’ve seen a couple of netbooks that we’d actually consider to be mildly quick, but given that locating an Ion-based netbook is about as easy as entering North Korea with a US passport, we haven’t had much of a chance to really love on ’em. Today, Acer is extending its boutique Ferrari lineup with the Ferrari One, an 11.6-inch machine that is among the first to rely on AMD’s newly announced Congo platform. Packed within the chassis is a dual-core 1.2GHz Athlon X2 L310 CPU, ATI’s Radeon 3200 graphics, an XPG port for connecting an external graphics solution, a 1,366 x 768 panel, WiFi, Bluetooth, optional WWAN and a 6-cell battery. You’ll also notice AMD Vision and Windows 7 badges alongside the obligatory prancing pony, but you can bet you’ll be paying dearly for this when it ships on (surprise, surprise) October 22nd. How dearly? Try £435 ($724), or roughly the cost of a single lug nut on an F430.

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Acer’s Congo-based 11.6-inch Ferrari One: finally, a netbook with speed originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:22:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It’s been a good year since Samsung unveiled its universally praised NC10, yet here we are — one successor and countless competing models later — looking at the exact same specs being offered up in the Korean company’s latest pair of netbooks. Why exactly a successful laptop of any kind would need three identikit successors isn’t something we can readily account for, but let’s look at what (little) is actually new, shall we? A lightweight version of MS Office is bundled (try and stifle your excitement, please), alongside a suite of new Samsung apps and automated backup to Microsoft’s free 25GB SkyDrive online vaults. The N140 gets a pair of skull-rattling 3W stereo speakers and a larger battery (up to 5,900 mAh) to differentiate it from the N130, and ergonomics are said to be improved, but we’re still left with the bitter taste of stagnating hardware in our mouth. Windows 7, please, save us.

[Via Engadget Spanish]

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Samsung outs N130 and N140 netbooks, incites groans of disappointment originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Earlier this week Nokia announced its entry into the netbook space with the Booklet 3G. The company hyped the device’s titular 3G connectivity, an estimated 12 hours of battery life, and a weight of 2.8 pounds. Also on the list were Wi-Fi connectivity, a built-in camera, an HDMI port, a 10-inch display, integrated A-GPS, an SD card reader, and Bluetooth.

The company shed some more light on the device at this week’s Nokia World in Stuttgart, Germany. The netbook is set to run Windows 7 on an Intel Atom processor. There’s a built-in SIM card slot and, not surprisingly, easy calendar, contacts, and media sync with Nokia handsets via Ovi Suite.

The Booklet has 1GB of RAM, and a 120GB 4200 RPM hard drive. There are three USB ports and an HDMI out.