Following our coverage of Packard Bell’s new tablet netbook called Butterfly Touch, we now have some new information regarding its specs and features.  So, we go – the Butterfly Touch will have an 11.6-inch (1366×768) touch screen and will be loaded of course with Windows 7 Premium. Battery life is at around 8-hours.

The Packard Bell Butterfly Touch will be available in Europe on October 22 for around 599 Euros.

Here are some official hi-res photos of the Butterfly Touch:

via Portable Gear

Packard Bell may not be very successful with its netbook products but this won’t stop the company from coming out with their own tablet PC. Portable Gear was lucky enough to have spotted and photographed this new Packard Bell which from now we will call as the Butterfly Touch. And PG was kind enough to share the photos with us here in the Eee PC Blog.

The Packard Bell Butterfly Touch has a swivel touchscreen display and as you can see from the photos, is portable enough to carry it around on your bike. No words yet on pricing and release dates though.

So here goes some more high-res photos.

Want to see a good match-up between two 11.6-inch netbooks? Well, how about the Packard Bell Dot M/A pitted against Acer’s very own 11.6-inch Aspire One 751H? The results?  Check out Netbook Italia or read these key highlights first:

• The Aspire One 751H’s Intel Z520 Atom processor vs AMD Athlon 64 L110 a 1.2GHz
• both have 1GB of RAM and 160GB HDD with 5400 rpm
• graphics – Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500 for the Aspire One 751H and ATI Radeon X1270 for the Dot M/A
• same ports and interfaces, 5-in-1 card reader, audio jacks, USB ports, WiFi b/g
• SIM card reader in the battery compartment for both
• integrated 3G network card for Aspire One 751H
• 10 grams difference in weight, similar body size
• same keyboard type and multi-gesture touchpad
• Windows Vista for Dot M/A, Windows XP for Aspire One 751H
• same 6-cell battery

So, if you are to purchase an 11.6-inch netbook right now, which of these two are you most likely to get?

via Netbook Italia

Still remember the Packard Bell netbooks we told you about not so long ago?  The Packard Bell Dot S and Dot M netbooks which were actually repackaged and rebranded Acer Aspire One netbooks are now officially launched in the UK.

The Packard Bell Dot M sports an Acer Aspire One 751 chassis as well as the same keyboard and hinges, but is equipped with AMD Athlon L1110. Other features of the Packard Bell Dot M include 2GB RAM, 320GB HDD, Bluetooth and possibly an integrated 3G and Windows Vista OS. The Dot M is slated for July release and will cost around £349.

Meanwhile the Packard Bell Dot S sports a 10.1 inch display,1GB of RAM, 160GB HDD, Windows XP, integrated 3G and looks exatly like the Acer Aspire One D250.  It will be running on Intel Atom Processor. It will cost around £249.

Via Pocket-Lint

Of course we all know that Acer owns the Packard Bell brands. And so it is not surprising that Packard Bell which is well known supplier in Europe to release Acer’s new line of netbooks to the European market under the Packard Bell branding or rebadging if you may want to call it that way.

And so we learned that Packard Bell will be releasing the DOT S netbook which is an 10-inch beauty with WiFi, Bluetooth, 3G options as well as the standard netbook, or shall we say Aspire One specs including 1GB RAM, 160GB HDD, webcam, 5-in-1 flash memory card readers.  These specs of course point to a previously announced Acer D250 netbook.

The other Packard Bell netbook slated to debut in the European Market is the DOT M netbook which as we learn will have an 11.6 inch display with 1366×768 pixel resolution, it will have an Intel Atom Z520 1.33GHz CPU plus similar specs as the DOT S.

The Packard Bell DOT S is slated to debut this week with a price tag of 299 Euros, and the DOT M will be available at the end of this month for a sweet price tag of 399 Euros.

Via Liliputing and Blogeee

If you were somehow looking forward and waiting for the release of the Acer Aspire One-inspired Packard Bell “Dot” netbook, I’ve got some good news and bad news. The bad news is, Packard Bell has decided to not release the “Dot” netbook, as revealed by a spokesperson speaking in an interview with the UK’s Pocket-Lint. This is probably because the company has realized that the time of lame 8.9-inch netbooks has passed. There is good news, however, in that the company has plans on introducing a better model than the “Dot” and hopefully around the same price point. More on this new model as we get additional info.

Pocket-Lint via Slashgear

ABI Research has conducted a survey in the US of over 1000 adult consumers. The survey focuses around how people view netbooks and MIDs.

From the survey, a huge 79% said that they viewed netbooks as an accompaniment to laptops or desktops. While only 11% said they would use a netbook as their primary device.

Shane from Ars Technica seems to agree with the results from the survey as he himself uses a desktop primarily. While his MSI Wind is used as his secondary device, it is noted that it has however, replaced his laptop. Personally, I would be amongst those 11% of consumers that use their netbook as their primary device – an MSI Wind clone replaced my laptop and is used more than my desktop computer, which is used for the only thing traditional netbooks can’t do – read or burn disks.

Would the survey results have been different if you’d answered the questions? Tell us if you use your netbook as your primary device and why or why not.

Pocket Lint have spent some time with the new Packard Bell ”dot” and have posted up a selection of photo’s of the new netbook.

The ”dot” will be available to buy from PC World in January but, the model has been officially launched by Packard Bell and Pocket Lint have one of the units to test out and take notes on. Unfortunately their ‘findings’ are a little disappointing as they noted that other than the fact that the “distinctive cylindrical hinge features the red dot”, specifications for the “dot” were average and I have to agree with that description.

This Packard Bell netbook is powered by an Intel Atom CPU, is fitted with an 8.9inch screen, with 1GB RAM and storage is wrapped up with the 160GB hard disk drive it has installed. Nothing startling but, there should be an option to install internal 3G connectivity in the future so thats something at least.

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