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Hercules introduces eCafe EC-1000W netbook

September 8th, 2009

Hercules introduces eCafe EC-1000W netbook

It looks like the question of whether to netbook makers machines with the crippled (but cheap ship) Starter Edition, Windows 7 has been fixed. They will.

We have already learned that the Samsung N130 and N140 netbooks will be available at the start with the stripped down version of Windows 7 instead of the more expensive Windows 7 Home Premium. And now PC manufacturers Herculues has plans for the introduction of the EC-1000W Ecafe netbook, which will also ship with Windows 7 starter yet been announced.

Hercules is not a known name in the United States, but the company has a handful of netbooks under his belt in Europe. The eCAF EC-1000W is a 10-inch netbook model with your usual information, including the 1.6 GHz Intel Atom N270 CPU, 1GB of RAM and 160 GB hard drive. The netbook has a 6-cell, 4400mAh battery.

The notebook has a chiclet keyboard and an attractive appearance in the top. Hercules is also the customers 40 GB of online storage, backup copies of their files.

Samsung announces new N Series netbooks and X120 CULV ultraportable

September 8th, 2009

Samsung announces new N Series netbooks and X120 CULV ultraportable

Samsung announced a new range of netbooks at IFA today, together with a thin and light ultraportable CULV.

The Samsung N130, N140 and N510 are all Intel Atom-powered portable and although details are thin on the ground at the moment, we know that the first two models have 10.1in screen, while the N510 has a 11.6in screen with 16: 9 aspect ratio and ion nVidia graphics. Perhaps even more remarkable is the alleged battery life for the N140 – 11 hours.

Models are available in black, white, blue and pink available (they are all no doubt by some much less meaningful name to be known), and she expects that in the United Kingdom are available some time later this month.

The Samsung X120, on the other hand, is a bigger laptop at the Intel Celeron M 723 processor Culv (just like in the Advent season Altro) is based. It has a 11.6in screen and HDMI on board, but we know at the moment.

via TechRadar