Finally a good product that might just give Apple’s MacBook Air a run for its money is here. The 13-inch version went for sale few weeks ago, and now the 11-inch version is finally here. There’s good news and bad news though. The good news is that the 11-inch 9-Series Samsung laptop that sports sexy duralumin curves will be yours for only $1,199, but the bad news is that if you bring along your Full-HD movie and porn collection and gazillion of other scandalicious photos, you might need to tug along your portable hard drive, as this little baby only has a 64GB SSD drive in it. Well, the sacrifice of ‘portability’.

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Sony is a partner of Google TV, and it’s no surprise if Sony actually cooks up a Chrome OS notebook, besides a “VAIO Hybrid PC”, whatever that means. The Chrome OS device is reportedly modeled after Google’s own Cr-48 reference design with roughly the same dimensions and keyboard but a slightly smaller 11.6-inch screen, which should resemble their current Y-series VAIO laptops.

The laptop is said to also runs on NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 alongside 1GB of RAM and 16GB of flash storage (yes, SSD is present). Sony’s also shooting for eight hours of battery life, and a weight of just 2.2 pounds, which shouldn’t be a problem to them.

All of that pales in comparison to what Sony’s plotting for this “Hybrid PC,” though. The publication says we’re looking at a thin-and-light Core i7 notebook with an incredible 8 to 16.5 hours of battery life, Intel Thunderbolt and an internal SSD, all of which plugs into a dock of some sort that adds a Blu-ray burner and external graphics (by AMD) for gaming and multimedia.

Of course, all these are speculations at the moment, as the Google Chrome OS is also at a very early stage of testing.

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Acer has announced in their “Acer’s Global press event” in New York a new Windows 7-based Iconia dual screen laptop. Yes, something similar of Toshiba’s Libretto W105, though slightly bigger this time.

The laptop will be running on Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit), and is equipped with options of Intel Core i5-480M / 560M / 580M CPU, up to 4GB of DDR3 memory, a pair of 14-inch multitouch displays (1366×768 resolution), integrated Intel HD graphics (128MB RAM), VGA / HDMI outputs, an inbuilt microphone and a S/PDIF interface. There’s also a 320/500/640/750GB hard drive, Acer’s CrystalEye webcam (1280×1024 resolution), 802.11b/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth 3.0+HS, integrated 3G WWAN, gigabit Ethernet, a four-cell battery and a total weight of 6.18 pounds. Closing things out, there is a pair of USB 2.0 ports, a single USB 3.0 jack and a one-year warranty.

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Well, this is a big surprise. DigiTimes is citing sources from “component players” claiming that the first smartbooks featuring Google’s bigger operating system will launch sometime late the month. Apparently, they will follow the Nexus One strategy, whereby the launch of a self-branded Chrome OS notebook manufactured by Inventec will be made available to developers only, and ODM will follow suit for the mass market – the ARM-based machine will not be sold through normal retail channels and is expectated to ship a very modest 60,000 to 70,000 units. Acer and HP are rumoured to be launching Chrome OS gear as early as December while ASUS waits to gauge market reaction. Now, where’s Dell?

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Acer has just issued a new line of netbooks, and they can’t blame me for thinking that they’re going the Sony’s style. Thus far, I’ve only seen their Aspire One with up to four colour options, but this time, it’s still the same four options but with a more vivid colour. This 10.1-inch machine packs a WSVGA panel, six-cell battery (up to eight hours of battery life), Atom N450 CPU, GMA 3150 GPU, 250GB hard drive, WiFi, 2GB of memory and inbuilt Bluetooth.

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Sony has refreshed their ‘overpriced’ VAIO Z lineup with some really awesome goodings. The machine that debuted back in February is now up for your itchy hands at a starting price of some awesome $2,249.99. What are you getting from that bizarre price? The 13.3-inch machine can now be ordered with a presumably lap-melting Core i5-460M (2.53GHz), Core i5-580M (2.66GHz) or Core i7-640M (2.8GHz), an optional carbon fiber colour casing, up to 8GB of DDR3 RAM, 256GB or 512GB SSD, optional Blu-ray Disc burner, an SDXC card reader and NVIDIA’s GeForce GT330M graphics card. Of kush, with that price, there’s also HD, as the screen can go to 1920 x 1080 with no sweat.

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It has been many years since notebooks are invented. But only recent times did notebook sales surpass desktop. These few years, the sales of notebooks have been sky high, surpassing its counterpart desktop. What’s more with the introduction of netbooks last year? More and more people are getting notebooks and netbooks for its compactness and portability, yet having near identical functions of a desktop. But there’s always the lack of ample storage and copious amounts of USB and other ports from notebooks. That’s where docking stations come in.

Introducing the DeskBook Pro dock from Zemno, it gives you all the necessary ports, and some extras, for the price of another ‘reasonably’ priced Windows-based notebook. Targeted at Apple MacBook users, but is compatible with nearly every notebook around the world.
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Samsung has released a new lappie called P580. The P580 is can be powered by Core i3 or i5 CPU and comes with a 15.6-inch 1,366 x 768 LED-lit screen, keyboard with numeric keypad, NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M (1GB GDDR3) graphics, Trusted Platform Module security, Bluetooth 2.1, 802.11b/g/n WiFi, 2GB to 4GB of RAM and running on Windows 7 Professionalas standard. For connectivity, it has Wi-Fi or LAN, high speed USB 2.0 or eSATA connection and Bluetooth 2.1. More pictures after the break. Read more…

Acer has shown its 11.6-inch netbook ‘Ferrari one 200′ during CeBIT 2010. It has a quite pretty chick holding and an 11.6-inch LED-backlit TFT LCD monitor. Powered by AMD Athlon X2 L310 processor and you also got a ATI Radeon HD3200 graphic card, 4GB DDR2 RAM, 500GB HDD and running Windows 7 Home Premium OS. More pictures after the break. Read more…

LG has announced 3 lappie today, they are the X-Note Mini X200 and T280 series.

The X-Note Mini X200 powered by an ATOM N450 (1.6GHz) CPU weighs 1.2kg with a 10.1” monitor with a 1366×768 resolution, 1GB of RAM, 250GB of HDD with a GMA3150 Graphic Card and Wifi-N.

The more powerful one will be the T280 series. They come equipped with a 11.6” Monitor with also a 1366×768 resolution, 2GB of RAM, a GMA4500M HD, 500GB of HDD, WiFi bgn. The T280-GR63K version is powered Core 2 Duo SU7300 @ 1.3GHz while its T280-LR3PK version gets Pentium Dual Processor SU4100.

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