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Acer expects overall notebook sales to increase in 2010, but predicts a drop in netbook share

Acer is currently enjoying sales of 1.3 million units of notebooks for 2009 in their homeland of Taiwan, and expects this number to be greater throughout the year 2010. Scott Lin, president of Acer Taiwan notes that Taiwan’s market scale is still rather small so a volume of 1.5-1.6 million units should be deemed significant. [...]

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Doraemon-themed Classmate PC surfaces, scares ugly netbooks

While this netbook will definitely not be able to pull out any magical gadgets out of its breast pocket, it does look cuter, if not cooler than most other netbooks. It’s a Doraemon-styled mini-notebook PC (OK, a netbook, if you don’t want me trying too hard) from a company called KuroKids, which should be able [...]

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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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Taiwan Mobile’s W101 netbook outed in sleek official photos, specs revealed

Last week we saw the official announcement of Taiwan Mobile’s so-called W101 netbook, and while it looked somewhat interesting on paper, it appears that it looks even better in photos, if its official pictures are to be used as basis. Taiwan Mobile only revealed the full set of W101 netbook photos recently, and from it [...]

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