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There’s been a serious dearth of Hello Kitty-branded products these days, but the dry-spell is thankfully at an end, with the arrival of the Hello Kitty C1. The crazy cat’s apparently first-ever netbook is (as you can see in the photo) quite a looker, and it’s packing a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 CPU with 1GB [...]

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Oh, look! It’s another netbook in the wild! This one is Packard Bell’s dot, and according to the boffins at Pocket-lint it’s now available for purchase across the pond by anyone who can find a reason to care. The Aspire One-like specs and style are just what you’d expect (do we really need to recount [...]

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Not much to say here, just an Atom N270 1.6Ghz processor, 10.2-inch 1024 x 600 LCD, 1GB of RAM, 160GB HDD and a dash of Windows XP, doing what they always do. There’s a nice complement of completely standard interfaces, like three USB 2.0 plugs, 802.11b/g WiFi, Ethernet, mini VGA out and a multicard reader, [...]

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MSI and Asus, having apparently found the bottom in the netbook race, are now working hard to find that magic point on the desktop. Asus has its B202 and all-in-one Eee Top nettops, the latter of which MSI is now countering with the new, all-inclusive Neton series. The smallest is the M16, starting at 0 [...]

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Filed under: Handhelds

If you’re looking to drop nearly ,000 on a UMPC, well, first of all, you’re nuts, but second of all, you’re in luck, ’cause the Asus R50A is shipping at €1,475 (,878). They weren’t kidding when they said it would be above 0, but for the price you’ll be running Windows Vista on [...]

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Filed under: Digital Cameras, Misc. Gadgets

Matrox’s new Iris GT “smart camera” doesn’t mark the first time that the Atom processor and Windows CE have run into each other, but it’s certainly one of the most interesting encounters, even if it’s one that most folks likely won’t see first hand. Apparently, the camera is intended to [...]

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If you’re interested in getting a new camera, then you might want to take a moment to consider the Matrox Iris GT “smart camera.” That is, if you require a bit more from your digital imaging device than the norm. As the name suggests, this camera is not your ordinary device and actually has an [...]

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Filed under: Handhelds, Laptops

After last year’s CES fiasco and the non-launch of a Snapdragon device in June, this is what it’s come to: the no really, manufacturers love our platform press release. According to Qualcomm, HTC, LG, ASUS, Samsung and other leading device manufacturers have created more than 30 device designs based on Snapdragon chipsets. [...]

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Filed under: Laptops

In an apparent effort to move every last unit before ASUS drops a 0 Eee PC in 2009, Best Buy has knocked off of MSI’s 10-inch Wind U100. The Atom N270-powered netbook now checks in at just 9, a price that just seems to fit so much better with the term “netbook” [...]

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Filed under: Laptops, Tablet PCs

We’re still scratching our noggins in a futile attempt to figure out the LifeBook U820′s real purpose on this Earth, but for those who’ve got it all figured out, you’ll likely be thrilled to know that this puppy is now on sale. 9 buys you a mini convertible tablet with an [...]

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