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Apple MacBook Air Mini leaked – Apple’s own netbook?

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 [...]

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Apple said to have ordered 10-inch touchscreen panels for mysterious new product

In an earlier report, we told you that Apple has placed orders with Taiwan-based WinTek for touchscreen displays that are to be used in the company’s upcoming netbook. At this point, Apple hasn’t issued official confirmation (and not so much as a statement) regarding the matter, but today a new report on Reuters seems to [...]

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Rumor of Acer planning a game console launch squashed

Apparently, some people thought the leaked Acer Hornet nettop was going to be a game console that will be positioned against the Nintendo Wii, so Acer executives were prompted to squash the said rumors and set the record straight about the Acer Hornet. They didn’t give any more information than what was available in the [...]

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Foxconn denies report regarding its entry into China white-box netbook market

Yesterday, there was a report on the Chinese-language Commercial Times that said Foxconn was stepping into the white-box netbook market in China. Well, today a new report has surfaced and it says Foxconn has denied its supposed move to sell white-box netbooks in China, having filed an announcement of firm denial with the Taiwan Stock [...]

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Nokia planning to release Linux-powered MID with ARM’s multi-core Sparrow chip

If Russian site Mobile-Review’s editor Eldar is to be believed, we won’t just see ARM’s multi-core Sparrow processor on netbooks by 2011, but also on Nokia’s very first Linux-based MID. Pictured above is a mockup the guys at Unwired View did of the device, which is said to be a multi-slide keyboard and display equipped [...]

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