The BenQ Joybook Lite U101 may not be the most distinctive netbook available. But it’s a decent looking little machine that is reportedly stress resistant. And according to DigiTimes and the Chinese language Economic Daily News, it won’t be the last netbook from BenQ. The company is expected to release new netbook, camera, and LCD TV models this year as…

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Unlike some companies, which aren’t sure whether to sell netbooks in the US for fear that they might eat into the sales of more expensive products, BenQ is planning on bringing its JoyBook Lite U101 netbook to the US. Of course, BenQ doesn’t really have much of a presence in the US PC market to cannibalize, so this decision was…

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The folks at Laptop Magazine have posted a full review of that BenQ Joybook Lite U101 netbook they picked up the other day. The mini-laptop is one of the few netbooks to ship with 1.5GB of RAM and one of the first to sport a true 16:9 aspect ratio, making it ideal for watching HD movies. But Laptop Mag gives…

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The folks at Laptop Magazine picked up a BenQ JoyBook Lite U101 netbook this week. While the mini-laptop isn’t available in the US yet, you can apparently get one in Taiwan for about $550. At first glance, this netbook looks a lot like many other netbooks on the market today. It has a 10.2 inch display, a 1.6GHz Inte l…

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Acer and Asus may be the dominant forces in netbook sales today, but the netbook market is just a little over a year old. There’s plenty of time for some major shakeups. And BenQ isn’t even looking for a major shakeup, just a minor one. The company says it wants a 5% share of the netbook market in 2009. In…

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It’s hard to make a netbook stand out from the crowd these days. There are a huge number of mini-notebooks available with Intel Atom processors, 9 or 10 inch displays, and decently sized hard drives or solid state disks. So BenQ has taken an interesting approach toward making its Joybook Lite U101 stand out – demonstrate that you can stand…

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We’re getting a few more details about the upcoming BenQ Joybook Lite U101 netbook. No, we still don’t know how much it will cost, or when it will be released, but in addition to the usual specs like a 1.6GHz CPU, 1GB of RAM, Bluetooth, and 802.11b/g WiFi, it looks like the U101 will also come with an optional 3.5G…

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When I think of BenQ I typically think of monitors, digital cameras, and consumer electronics. But it looks like BenQ is the latest company to dip its toe in the netbook waters. Eee PC News.de reports that BenQ will soon bring the Joybook Lite U1 to market. The computer has nearly identical specs to the Asus Eee PC 1000H or…

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