If you’re looking for ways to ‘trick out’ your netbook then GigaOM have posted up a great list of free ways to do just that.

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If you want to get your hands on the Lenovo S10, Notebooks.com are holding a competition where you stand a chance of winning one. The competition seems to be US based, as the competition questions are based on Black Friday. To be entered into the competition, you need to answer one or both of the questions, with each answer being in a seperate comment.

You can only answer each question once, on whether your Black Friday was great, saying what you bought and how difficult it was to get the items, or if it sucked, with items listed that you couldn’t get.

A winner will be picked at random next Friday, December the 5th.

Kouziro Frontier have released their latest netbook the FRNU302/BK. The netbook was released in Japan for a retail price of 400 euros.

For 400 euros, you get the usual specifications found in netbooks. It features a 10.1 inch screen, 1GB of RAM, an Intel Atom processor N270/a. The netbook also comes installed with Windows XP, Home or Professional, or with Windows Vista Home Premium, on a 160GB hard drive.

Via: Daily Digitals

Graphics card manufacturator HIS, are jumping on board the netbook wagon by releasing their own netbook. The HIS netbook has a chassis similar to the MSI Wind U100 and specifications similar to many other netbooks. The netbook will feature a 10.2 inch screen, with a resolution of 1024 x 600, Intel Atom processor, 1GB of RAM, Windows XP OS, Wifi, a four in one memory card reader, VGA web cam and three USB ports. HIS netbook will be released in India and retail for approximately $404.

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The limited edition Hello Kitty netbook has been given the unboxing treatment. Akihabara news received their sample Hello Kitty netbook today and have taken snaps of the packaging and removal of the netbook. The C101K3W is white with a Hello Kitty face carved into the side. The netbooks comes pre-installed with 11 Hello Kitty wallpapers. View the unboxing pictures after the jump.

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BenQ are to release a netbook dubbed the JoyBook Lite U101. BenQ’s netbook has two features that you won’t find on other netbooks. The U101 will be a shock resistant netbook, similar to the G-Shock watches, tested to withstand drops of up to 76cm and also has a 16:9 ratio display, which BenQ claims is the first netbook to have a 16:9 aspect ratio.

The netbook features a 10.1 inch screen, 1GB of RAM. Intel Atom processor, 160GB hard drive, wifi and bluetooth. The U101 will be available during the upcoming SITEX event in Singapore and is available for S$888. The netbook will become available at the end of November in other Asian markets.

Via: GamezandGadgetz

Qube are to launch a new netbook on the 20th of December. The Qube M1 comes preinstalled with either Windows XP or Vista, or Linux Mint. The Qube M1 is able to run all versions of XP and Vista from Windows XP Starter Edition to Windows Vista Ultimate. If you wish to have the full OS and choose Vista Ultimate, the license will cost you little under the price of the netbook.

The Qube M1 will feature an 8.9 inch screen with a resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels, 80GB hard drive, 1GB of RAM. When configuring the M1 it says it has a 1.6GHz dual core Intel Atom processor. The Qube M1 also comes with a 1.3 megapixel webcam, WiFi and a memory card slot, compatible with SD, MMC and MS. This will have a starting price of 15,999 Phillipine pesos, which is about $320.

Via: Liliputing

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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After spending a little time on the HP website looking at the HP Mini 1000 Vivienne Tam Limited Edition which, is something that should appeal to the female netbook user more than the guys out there, it was a ‘girlie fate’ that brought the upcoming Acer Aspire One to my attention.

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A new model of the HP Mini 1000 will be available in January, according to Liliputing and the HP store.

The current Mini 1000, which was released last week, runs Windows XP and is priced shy of $400 by a cent at $399.99 however, HP were also advertising a Linux version of their new netbook. There was no release date stated for the Linux version but, now we have a date of January for the Linux Mini 1000, which is priced at ’starting from’ $379.99.

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