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Netbooks party hard in 2009: shipments up 103 percent year-over-year
The whole “man, how time flies” thing feels a little played out, but we definitely just heard the Pavilion dv2 say as much to the Wind U100 . Believe it or not, those two machines were just a couple of the legions that ushered us into a netbook-crazed 2009, and now DisplaySearch has the figures that prove what we’ve all been thinking: netbooks are the bees knees. According to their research, shipments of low-cost, miniaturized laptops shot up 103 percent year-over-year; compare that to the 5 percent uptick in the conventional laptop market, and you’ll start to get a feel for the shifting trend
Acer busts out TravelMate Timeline laptops for the business type
Acer ‘s just outed a new line of laptops, the CULV TravelMate Timeline series. Aimed at business customers, the TravelMate Timeline 8571, 8471 and 8371 are 13.3, 14.1 to 15.6-inchers, respectively, with a range of Core 2 Duo CPU options, Intel GM45 Express chipsets, up to 4GB of SDRAM, also boast 802.11a/b/g/Draft N WLAN, Bluetooth and gigabit LAN.
Acer gets in the Olympic spirit with special edition Aspire Timeline 1810TZ
Lenovo really went to town with its Olympics-branded gear , but while Acer is a major Winter Olympics partner (and keeping the spot for 2012 as well), it’s taking a bit more of a tame approach at the outset. This Acer Aspire Timeline 1810TZ , for instance, merely slaps some silver rings on the lid and calls it a day.
MSI slides out 13.4-inch X-Slim X350 CULV laptop
MSI has been quite the snake of late.
MSI X-Slim X600 Pro tweaks the 15.6-inch thinsanity formula
The last time we bumped into MSI’s 15.6-inch X-Slim X600 we were unimpressed with the build quality — it just seemed like too much plastic in too thin of a form factor to be trusted. Well, the X-Slim X600 Pro seems to have addressed some of the perceived quality issues, with a new scratch-resistant surface and silver inlays, but we’ll have to play with one before we really know if these refinements are merely skin deep
Gigabyte’s M1305 ad campaign says docking a laptop is like picking your nose
External graphics cards may well be a rarity these days, but we’re not sure if this simple fact justifies the launch of a grotesque and debatably heinous ad campaign.
