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Intel to ship nearly 2 million Classmate PCs in year 2009!

Intel Classmate PC, which sold nearly 700,000 in the year 2008 is forcasted to be break 2 million mark this year. In China, Intel has partnered with the local network provider Haier to sell Classmate PCs there. It is also taking procurement orders from parts of Europe and Southeast Asia.

The netbook vendors have become a little worried due to this as they think that this move by Intel can impact their sales. In defending itself, Intel said that it no plans to compete in netbook market. Intel added that they will continue to work with OEM partners to sell Classmate PCs for the youth education

[via digitimes]

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Intel Atom N280 versus Intel Atom N270

Intel introduced N280 this year which is set to replace the N270 Intel Atom processor. The N280 is marginally faster (1.66GHz) than the N270 (1.6GHz).

N270 processor benchmark (crystal mark)

Here are the results of crystal mark on N280 processor:

Conclusion: N280’s ALU and FPU performance is better than N270 processor.

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Stone announces Neo 101 netbook

The Stone Neo 101 will join the netbook family with the usual netbook-ish specifications even though being priced at a high £275 (about $400). It will be available in UK, from 1st May, with an unusual three-year warranty. Its features include:

  • 10.1-inch widescreen display
  • 1,024 x 600 resolution
  • optional internal 3G
  • a pair of USB ports
  • 34mm PCI-Express Card expansion

Stonegroup [via Techdigest]

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HP MINI 2140 HD pictures

HP recently released the 1366 x 768 resolution version of HP Mini 2140. The high resolution as expected, gives better options for web browsing, photo editing, etc.

Personally, this resolution is much better than 1024 x 568 pixels that come with the non-HD version of HP 2140.

[via HPminiforums] via eeepc

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Dell Vostro A90 available at just $349

The Vostro A90 has hit the shores of US with a price tag of $349, which is about nearly 1/3rd of what it costs in Japan. It comes with the usual netbook-ish specifications:

  • 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270
  • 1GB RAM
  • Intel GMA 950
  • WiFi
  • 0.3MP webcam
  • 4-cell battery
  • Windows XP home

Interestingly, unlike Dell Mini 9, Dell is not offerening a linux version of it. It should be noted that $349 price tag is for the 8GB SSD model and the 16GB SSD version will cost you $424.

[Dell Vostro A90] [via engadget]

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Sharp Mebius Netbook making its debut next week

Sharp is all set to unveil its netbook next week in Japan. Sharp has sent several invites to Japan Tech journalists to the unveiling of the Sharp’s Netbook.

Sharp has been very  successful in keeping the pictures of Sharp Mebius Netbook under the wraps. My Japanese friends have told me the pink bubble says, “your time will change”

[Sharp UK]

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Another proof of how popular the netbooks are – Total sales to reach 37% of total notebooks sales in 2009!

Nobody had thought 2 years back that the netbooks would become so popular. Last year, the netbooks had already conquered 20% of the total notebook market. This year, it is being estimated that netbooks will account for nearly 37% of the total notebook sales by the end of this year and about 40% by the year 2012(!).

However, by 2012, I don’t think there would be any difference based on the feature set between a notebook and netbook (except for the small size, of course).

[via digitimes]