Remember NEC Lavie Light Netbook we featured a couple of months ago? Well the said netbook may have not reached the international markets yet, but that didn’t stop NEC of Japan to release two new colors of this machine as well as upgrade its screen size to 10.1-inch. The new NEC Lavie Light Netbook’s new colors are Pink and Blue in addition to the previous Black and White color design.

Aside from the two new colors and the 10-inch display screen, the Lavie Light Netbook is still pretty much the same old stuff with the following features:

• 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 CPU
• 160GB HDD
• 1GB Memory
• WiFi
• 3 USB Ports
• SD Card Slot
• 1.3 Megapixel web camera
• 1.17 kg.

Still no words yet on whether NEC is keen on releasing this netbook to the U.S. market.

Via Akihabara News

A post from the Asus Eee PC blog.

NEC Upgrades the Lavie Light Netbooks

NEC is set to release a new netbook called the Versa N1100 which is said to be a magnesium alloy-based mini notebook or netbook that has been tested to survive up to 150kg weight forced onto it. The company claimed that it has tested the resiliency of the Versa N1100 by putting a 150kg weight on top of it (with the bezel closed, I supposed) for 5 seconds. After five seconds, there were no single cracks seen on the netbook and it is still running perfectly.

Such was their basis for advertising the NEC Versa N1100 as a tough netbook wonder. And to further test its other claim that the Versa N1100 is able to withstand  heavy sweat that could cost its keyboard characters and the black gloss finish to tarnish, NEC found out by using an artifical sweat that no paint came off the netbook.

In addition, NEC has also dropped the netbook on wooden floors, iron plates and concrete floors among other durability tests and successfully passed each one of the tests.

Now here’s the catch, NEC officials have also warned users “not to try their tests at home” as they don’t give additional warranty that would cover impact damage or physical abuse to the netbook. Ironically conflicting, right?

Other specs of the NEC Versa N1100 include:

• 8.9-inch WSVGA display
• Intel Atom processor N270
• 160GB HDD
• 1GB RAM
• Wi-Fi
• 1.3 megapixel webcam
• Windows XP
• 3-cell battery

Pricing and release date details are not yet announced for the NEC Versa N1100.

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A post from the Asus Eee PC blog.

NEC Offers Up the Ultra-Resilient Versa N1100 Netbook

We recently posted an article about the new NEC LaVie Light netbook and Engadget (Chinese) have now had a chance to take a closer look at the NEC netbook and have also posted up a handful of pictures.

Although Engadget are still not impressed by the general specs of the model or by the “over-sized” bezel, they have praised the overall build quality of the LaVie Light and the unique screen design which allows the screen to tilt back 180 degrees.

The full hands-on report and more photographs can be found at the Chinese Engadget site which is translated to English using Google Translator here.

A post from the Asus Eee PC blog.

NEC LaVie Light Netbook Hands-On

Japanese manufacturer maybe starting to notice the growing popularity of netbooks, that some of them are starting to join the netbook party. One of them is NEC which just announced their own netbook – the LaVie Light. Sadly, this netbook got nothing unusual to brag about except for the fact that it has the NEC branding.

Let’s see how it fares up with other netbooks in terms of specs then:

• 8.9-inch LCD screen
• 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 CPU
• 160GB HDD
• 1GB Memory
• WiFi
• 3 USB Ports
• SD Card Slot
• 1.3 Megapixel web camera
• 1.17 kg.

Perhaps by now, you’d know that those are pretty standard netbook specs, right? Pricing for this netbook would probably in the range of current 8.9-inch netbooks available in the market today. Anybody here who can understand Japanese, please visit the site and would appreciate if you can tell us the price of the LaVie Light netbook.

Via Akihabara News

A post from the Asus Eee PC blog.

NEC Japan Has Its Own Netbook; the LaVie Light

Could this NEC tablet be the forbearer of a new tablet-netbook market?

NEC Japan have announced two new tablet PCs which feature the standard specifications of a regular netbook. Both versions will have the 512mb-1GB of RAM, 80GB hard drive and 1.6GHz Atom Processor of that found in netbooks such as Eee PCs. The 12PNC-W2/B2 will feature a 12 inch display and the second mode, the 15PNC-W2/B2 will have a 15 inch display.

Pricing and availability is currently unconfirmed.

Via: Akihabara News

A post from the Asus Eee PC blog.

NEC Tablet Netbook