Medion and Sainsbury’s have reduced the price of the Medion Akoya Mini netbook to £279 in the UK. That works out at around $480 for the MSI Wind U100 clone.

The medion netbook is only available across Europe and comes complete with a 10.2 inch screen, an Intel Atom CPU, 1GB of memory and a 80GB hard drive. It comes in at the same price as the Advent 4211 (£279 at PC World - UK) netbook and with similar specs they are both decent value netbooks however, the 4211 does come with Bluetooth built in for extra connectivity.

It’s good to see another UK retailer selling netbooks and becoming competitive in doing so, it can only be positive for UK netbook buyers and EeePC.net have also discovered that Medion have reduced the price of their Akoya Mini on their own website here in line with the reduction by Sainsbury’s which is great news all round.

The Medion AKOYA Mini E1210 notebook will be released in Aldi stores on September 7th and will cost £279, Medion have announced.

The AKOYA Mini 1210 has the ‘air’ of a larger laptop and certainly has the specs to back that up:

•  Intel® Atom™ N270 Processor (1.60Ghz, 512KB L2 Vache, 533 MHz FSB)
•  Windows® XP Home Edition (includes SP3/OEM version)
•  10” TFT widescreen display with 1024 x 600 pixel resolution.
•  1 GB DDR2 RAM
•  80 GB Hard Drive
•  High Bandwidth Draft-n Wireless LAN.
•  Stereo loudspeakers
•  Integrated Webcam with Microphone.
•  Included Software – Corel®, WordPerfect®, Office X3, BullGuard Internet Security (trial)

This latest addition to the Medion range weighs in at a hefty 1.2kg. The unit itself measures 260mm x 180mm x 19mm and comes in black, silver or white. It is also expected to come with an extended battery life.

The AKOYA Mini E1210 is an intriguing prospect but, with the Dell Inspiron Mini expected to come out at around the same time we will have to wait and see how sales progress for Medion.

via: Medion

Expect to see Medion’s entry into the netbook world soon. Medion is to release a 10 inch netbook later in the year.

As of yet there are no specification details for the Akoya Mini E1211. Britain’s Tech Digest website have however got it priced at over £300. Quite a considerable amount for it’s size, but it will be a tru 10 inch mini laptop.

Via: Smarthouse

Another netbook that made an appearance during the Computex is Medion’s Akoya netbook which we covered not so along ago here at Eee PC Blog and which used to go by the name Akoya E1210. Although not as popular as the other major netbooks - MSI, Asus and Acer, the Akoya netbook still wallops some feature punch that should give the Eee PC 901 and the MSI U100 a run for their money.

Tweak Town managed to take some pictures of the actual unit as well as a snapshot of the Akoya’s spec sheet.

• 10.2 inch WSVGA LED display
• 1.6 GHz Intel Atom processor
• Windows XP
• PCI-E Fast Ethernet
• 802.11 WIFI
• 1 GB DDR
• 80 GB SSD storage
• 1.3 webcam
• 3 cell battery pack

The report did not indicate pricing information for the Akoya. But the last we covered it, the SRP was said to be at around $623.