Due to be launched in Japan towards the end of the month, the new Gateway netbook will be called the ‘LT1001j’. Of course, as we’ve said in previous reports Acer are the parent company of Gateway, so the LT1001j has been labelled by some as a brother or cousin of the Acer Aspire One.

The Gateway netbook, the company’s first netbook release in Japan, will be powered by an Intel Atom N270 1.6GHz processor and will be fitted with an 8.9 inch WSVGA display. Gateway will install Windows XP and 1GB of RAM in the LT1001j and with a 160GB hard drive for storage, this could be a successful debut netbook for the company on Japanese shores.

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