Coming up for release in Singapore in the next few days from the iiView company, is the ‘Airbook wannabe’ netbook the iiView A2. Priced at S$699 (around  US$465), the iiView A2 has the following specifications, which are very respectable for a netbook, especially at the price the A2 will retail at and comes with Windows 7 RC1 installed too:

Atom 1.6GHz processor

2GB RAM

Intel 945 chipset

12.1-inch 1,280 x 800-pixel resolution

320GB HDD

Two USB ports, mini-HDMI port, 2-in-1 headphone/mic jack

802.11b/g, 10/100 Ethernet

Six-cell battery

There is no news on whether the iiView A2 will be available outside of the Singapore yet and CNET will be reviewing the netbook soon to tell us whether the A2 would be a welcome addition to the worldwide netbook market. Once the review is live, more news is bound to follow.

The iiView website can be found here: iiView.

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Whether this is another fake Apple netbook or not, we still can’t say. But it sure is one of the best looking renders we’ve ever seen. This photos was leaked in a Russian magazine and is tentatively called the “Apple MacBook Air Mini,” apparently for taking some design cues from the uber-thin MacBook Air. As you can see, it even lacks (or fails to show) its built-in ports on the side. This could very well be the 10-inch Apple netbook many folks out there have been waiting for.
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One Rob Galbraith, referred to as a “veteran photographer and detail-obsessed camera reviewer” by Wired, has proclaimed that the Dell Inspiron Mini 9 was pitted against the 15-inch Apple MacBook Pro in terms of color accuracy, and won. He tested the Dell Inspiron Mini 9, MacBook Pro, Lenovo W700 and an IBM ThinkPad T60 laptop to see which was the best option for a pro mobile photographer. At the end of it all, the Lenovo with an optional built-in color calibrator was declared the winner in color accuracy, while the ThinkPad come out as the the one which offers the best viewing angles. What surprising is how something that’s supposed to be cheap with use of low-quality hardware gets to best a $2000 piece of equipment that’s “engineered to standards that don’t even exist yet.” Another reason to love your darling old netbook.

Rob Galbraith via Wired