Netbooks under 10K: Freescale-powered Pegatron

Posted on January 11, 2009 - Filed Under Netbooks | Leave a Comment

Pegatron may sound like an Autobot in Transformers, but it’s really not. It’s a company that spun-off from ASUS, and they’re getting ready to join the netbook craze. The focus is on low price and functionality, but they’re no slouch in the design department, either. Just look at this prototype (courtesy of Engadget):

This 17mm-thin netbook [...]

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Netbooks Under 10K: Packard Bell EasyNote XS20

Posted on December 12, 2008 - Filed Under Netbooks | Leave a Comment

This post is part of a series on low-cost laptops. Related posts can be found here.
To round out this series, we have Packard Bell’s EasyNote XS20. Until recently, this was priced at an incredibly high 30K++ at PC Corner - unreasonable given that its sibling, the Astone UMPC, was already retailing at below 10K for [...]

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Netbooks Under 10K: Neo eXplore X1.1 UMPC

Posted on December 9, 2008 - Filed Under Netbooks | 1 Comment

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Based on Intel’s Classmate PC design, the Neo eXplore X1.1 UMPC was definitely made for kids. It was one of the earliest netbooks to be out on the market, made to compete with OLPC’s XO-1 (One Laptop Per Child), which [...]

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Netbooks Under 10K: Asus EEE PC 701 2G

Posted on December 8, 2008 - Filed Under Netbooks | Leave a Comment

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With the EEE PC, ASUS was able to successfully introduce a new laptop category on its own - small, light, simple and cheap. It turns out there’s a huge market for it, and so “netbooks” came flooding the market (not [...]

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Netbooks Under 10K: Astone UMPC

Posted on December 6, 2008 - Filed Under Netbooks | 3 Comments

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Staunch rival of the Blue H1, the Astone UMPC boasts of slightly higher specs and more features at the same price. Choosing one over the other can be difficult, and will probably depend on personal preference more than anything else. [...]

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Netbooks Under 10K: Deep Blue H1 UMPC

Posted on December 5, 2008 - Filed Under Netbooks | Leave a Comment

This post is part of a series on low-cost laptops. Related posts can be found here.
You gotta give credit where it’s due. The Blue H1 UMPC was the first netbook to be priced under P10,000 locally, and it created a tremendous domino effect in the market. There are now about 5 similarly priced mini-notebooks, and [...]

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