Lenovo gets official with Win7-powered IdeaPad and IdeaCentre machines
Lenovo already got official with a couple of its Windows 7-powered machines last week, but it looks like the rest of the crop is landing today. Of course, we’ve already seen the 11.6-inch IdeaPad U150 and 15.6-inch U550 pop up in various corners of the globe this month, and the IdeaPad U350 has been around since the summer. That said, we’ll take the OS refresh and minor spec bumps any day of the week (along with new colors on the S10-2), and that’s exactly what we’re getting. We’ll spare you the rehash (it’s all there in the read link if you need a refresher), but over on the desktop front, we’re pretty stoked about the stylish (and previously rumored) all-in-one IdeaCentre B500. Packing a Core 2 Quad CPU, 1TB of HDD space, up to 8GB of DDR3 RAM and a 23-inch LCD, this thing may actually perform fairly well in tasks more strenuous than checking email. The business-minded K300 and bargain-priced H230 ($299 starting point) are less thrilling from a hardware perspective, but they’ll certainly fit their respective molds quite well. The whole lot should be available to order soon directly from Lenovo, and there’s bound to be plenty of options for those not content with base configurations.
Filed under: Desktops, Laptops
Lenovo gets official with Win7-powered IdeaPad and IdeaCentre machines originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted: October 26th, 2009
at 1:01pm by Darren Murph
Topics: IdeaPad, IdeacentreB500, IdeacentreK300, IdeapadU150, IdeapadU550, IdeapadY550p, Windows7, b500, color, colorful, colors, desktop, h230, ideacentre, ideacentre B500, ideacentre K300, ideapad Y550P, ideapad u150, ideapad u550, k300, laptop, lenovo, netbook, s10-2, u150, u350, u550, windows 7, y550, y550p
Kohjinsha PA series tablet ships in November, value not guaranteed
Kohjinsha had a slew of portables on display at CEATEC earlier this month, including the classification-bending PA. Its design fits in somewhere between a MID and a tablet netbook, with its 4.8-inch, 1024 x 600 touchscreen and 1.33GHz Atom processor, but now we’re learning that it’s price roughly equates to a netbook and a MID. The device hits Japan early next month for ¥69,800, about $770. That’s certainly not cheap, but if you need one elsewhere you’re probably going to need to go through an importer, and there prices are ¥79,800 and up. That’s about $870. Yikes.
Filed under: Handhelds, Laptops
Kohjinsha PA series tablet ships in November, value not guaranteed originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted: October 26th, 2009
at 10:27am by Tim Stevens
Topics: KohjinsaPa, kohjinsa pa, kohjinsha, mid, netbook, pa, tablet, umd, umpc
Verizon rolls out HP Mini 311, Mini 110 netbooks
The cat may have gotten out of the bag ahead of the Windows 7 launch, but Verizon has just now gotten official with its latest subsidized netbook offerings, which include some unfortunately pricey 3G-equipped versions of HP’s Mini 311 and Mini 110. As expected, the 311 is the first one out of the gate (available right now), and packs an 11.6-inch screen, an Atom N270 backed up by NVIDIA’s ION chipset, 2GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive, Windows 7 Home Premium and, last but not least, a price tag of $249.99 on contract and after a $100 mail-in rebate. The Mini 110, on the other hand, kicks things back a whole generation to Windows XP and straight-up Intel internals, and will be available for $199.99 (on contract and after rebate again) sometime in mid-November — in the meantime, you can still pick up the carrier’s HP Mini 1151NR netbook while supplies last.
Filed under: Laptops
Verizon rolls out HP Mini 311, Mini 110 netbooks originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted: October 23rd, 2009
at 4:58pm by Donald Melanson
Topics: Hp, HpMini, HpMini110xp, HpMini311, Mini110, Mini311, SubsizedNetbooks, hp mini, hp mini 110xp, hp mini 311, mini 110, mini 311, netbook, subsized netbooks, verizon
Nokia Booklet 3G running Windows 7 Starter unwrapped at Best Buy
If your pulse is racing like Windows 7 on an Atom processor then this Nokia Booklet 3G is surely the cause. The premium netbook running Microsoft’s not so premium 32-bit, Aero-less Starter Edition OS (see the sticker?) is the first demo unit to arrive at Best Buy. Buyers better enjoy looking at that Windows flag ’cause with Starter, it’s the only wallpaper you’re ever going to get.
[Thanks, Caffoni]
Nokia Booklet 3G running Windows 7 Starter unwrapped at Best Buy originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted: October 23rd, 2009
at 8:41am by Thomas Ricker
Topics: Best Buy, BestBuy, Booklet3g, SpyShots, StarterEdition, Windows7, booklet 3g, leak, netbook, nokia, premium, spy shots, starter, starter edition, windows 7
Dell Adamo XPS opens up for Windows 7 festivities, but still not for sale
So much for Business Week’s “confirmed” October 22nd launch date from over the weekend, eh? We just spoke with Dell’s PR who told us that the company has yet to confirm a launch date for its slender Adamo XPS, and still won’t, except to say that it’s not reaching the unwashed masses at any point today. That doesn’t mean today was all bad for the vigilant in waiting, as we finally got our first public showing of the front of the laptop, proving once and for all that the most recent press photo isn’t crooked. So there you have it, a chiclet keyboard and touchpad that likes to curl up close with the screen — mystery’s over, folks, now we play the waiting game.
Filed under: Laptops
Dell Adamo XPS opens up for Windows 7 festivities, but still not for sale originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted: October 22nd, 2009
at 3:49pm by Ross Miller
Topics: AdamoXps, DellAdamo, DellAdamoXp, UltraLight, UltraThin, adamo, adamo xps, dell, dell adamo, dell adamo xp, net book, netbook, ultra light, ultra thin, ulv, xps
