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Netbook sales to reach 59 million by 2013

According to study carried out by the independent research firm Semico, shipments of so called netbooks are set to climb to a massive fifty nine million units by 2013. In 2008 the market total was just twelve and half million.

This increase represents a five fold increase in sales and it has been estimated to be worth around twenty two per cent of the total computer market. There is one issue that of the processor,

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The Gateway LT3100 series at BestBuy

It is great to see that BestBuy are not hanging around when it comes to new laptops and there is no exception with the LT series from Gateway. They have the prices starting at $399, which is okay, the main difference between this, and the Acer Aspire One is that they have replaced the Intel with the AMD Athlon processor.

Specs:

Gateway LT3103u

AM

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First, look at the Acer Aspire One 751

First, look at the Acer Aspire One 751.jpg

UPDATE:

Acer Aspire One 751 now available on Amazon for $418.99!

The all new or not so new Acer Aspire One 751 is a far cry from those early days, but not so different to the recent released versions. This machine has a slimmer profile, easy to use keyboard, bright hi-res display and a supposedly long battery life; these are of course the good points, which actually seem to outweigh the bad points such as single touchpad button and performance.

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Nvidia launching its own netbook

The chip maker Nvidia has confirmed that they will be bringing out their own brand of netbook later on in the year that will be powered by the new Tegra chip, which will also be used in the Zune HD. This new netbook could be the big seller this Christmas especially as it is due to be released on Black Friday.

Features:

Prototype model possibly called Elan it will be created by a c

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Kohjinsha launching 7” UMPC

The UMPC market is getting another boost with the introduction of the seven inch UMPC the SK3, this is a nice machine and unusually comes with a keyboard too, and some people like still like to use them! This device is set to go on sale in Japan on the 26th June and will using the Windows XP SP3 operating system.

Features

7-inch touch screen display with 1024 x 600 resolution

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Samsung gets designer edition

Samsung are launching a special edition version of the NC10 with a feature on the lid that has also been signed by the designer, so far it has only been seen in France. However, that does not mean that it is not going turn up in other countries and hopefully that will be sooner, rather than later.

Product Features and Technical Details

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The difference between a netbook and a notebook is?

It may come as a surprise that there are not many consumers who know what the difference is between a notebook and netbook computer. In fact, there may even be some industry experts who are equally confused about the terms. Some people think that is has something to do with size, well in theory it could be that, but there are certain things that full sized laptops can do that their smaller brothers cannot, like watching and burning DVD’s.

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Manli launch a 10.2” model

Until now the brand name Manli would normally have been seen on motherboards and graphics cards, so it should not come as much of a surprise to find that they have move up into produce a range of mini laptop, which has been launched at the Computex 2009. There are five models in the range and each has a choice of colour and options from the basic specs.

Features:

10.2-inch LCD scr

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Viliv shows off seven inch handheld

The seven inch display is normally belonging to a hand held device, but this one is on display on the Intel stand at the Computex 2009 and should be seen just to see what this has to offer. Like the nine hours of battery life on full video playback!

Features:

Powered by Intel Atom Z520 processor

Up to 200 hours of standby time

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Hybrid netbooks cannot have XP

Fortunately, there are not too many hybrid laptops around, the only one that is popular and available is the MSI’s 10-inch Wind U115 Hybrid, this uses the 8 Gb solid state drive (SSD) and also at the same time has a 160 Gb hard drive (HHD).

This means that the user can switch between the two in order to save on power usage, by disabling the HHD the user can effectively get more out of the battery, which can c

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