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Netbook prices set to fall
Acer has slashed the prices of its Aspire netbook from $399 to $349. In addition, its Linpus Linux Lite will also see its price drop from $379 to $329. Netbooks, a new category of affordable, Read more...
Popularity of smaller PCs a cause of worry for industry
The
increasing success of netbooks - which comes with little on-board memory and
comparatively slow processors, is apparently starting to worry industry
players. Besides posing an Read more...
Microsoft to extend Windows XP for nettops as well
Microsoft will extend the availability of its die-hard Windows XP operating system to manufacturers of ultra low-cost PCs, aka nettops. Not surprisingly, Microsoft's corporate vice president of
Read more...SanDisk launches new SSDs for ultra low-cost PCs
The number 1 supplier of flash memory storage products is targeting ultra low-cost personal computers as well as business laptops in order to drive demand for its solid state drives (SSD). The
Read more...Intel shows off new Atom processors
Intel has announced the availability of two Atom processors at the Computex 2008 conference in Taiwan this week. The Atom N270 processor is targeted at low-cost notebooks while the Atom 230 is
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