[/caption] While the Acer Aspire One 751h and Gateway LT3103u both have 11.6 inch displays, which makes them larger than your average netbook, they also have slow processors and low price tags, which means they have more in common with your average netbook than with a fuller featured 13 inch or larger notebook. Tech Report has taken a detailed look…

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AMD may not be making as big a splash in the netbook space as Intel, or even VIA. But the company’s Athlon L110 64 bit CPU powers the Gateway LT3100 mini-notebook with an 11.6 inch display. At least, that’s what the notebook is called in the US. In Europe, it’s called the Packard Bell Dot M/A, but it’s basically the…

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Intel, VIA, and ARM are all over the netbook and low power computing market. AMD, not so much. And according to JP Morgan Securities, that could be hurting the company at a time when netbook sales are helping to prop up over PC and microprocessor sales. VIA holds just 1% share of the overall market for CPUs, but it’s made…

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The Packard Bell Dot M/A is basically a rebranded Gateway LT3100 that’s available in some parts of Europe. Both Gateway and Packard Bell are subsidiaries of Acer, so it’s likely that the only real difference between these two computers is the branding. That said, Netbookwereld has the first video overview I’ve seen of either laptop. You can see the complete…

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The Gateway LT3100 series of laptops sport 12 inch displays and underpowered processors. But there are a few things setting them apart from most netbooks. First, the Gateway LT3100 packs an AMD Athlon 64 L110 CPU and ATI Radeon X1270 graphics instead of Intel’s Atom or VIA’s Nano or C7-M platforms. Second, the Gateway machines ship with Windows Vista instead…

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Packard Bell has unveiled the Dot M/A mini-notebook in Belgium. And if this 11.6 inch laptop looks familiar, that’s because it’s exactly the same machine as the Gateway LT3100 which is available in the US. Not that this should come as a surprise to anyone. Both Gateway and Packard Bell are subsidiaries of Acer. Like the Gateway LT3100, the Packard…

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Gateway’s LT3100 series notebooks are a bit larger than typical netbooks, but they pack 11.6 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel displays which help me foregive the extra size. The other thing that sets the LT3100 apart from pretty much every netbook on the market is the fact that it ships with an AMD Athlon L110 64 bit processor and ATI…

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Gateway has launched a new 11.6 inch laptop that should compete nicely in the netbook space. The Gateway LT3100 scoffs at the standard netbook conventions and sports a 1.2GHz AMD Athlon 64 L110 single core CPU, 2GB of RAM, a 250Gb hard drive, and runs Windows Vista Home Basic. The computer also has an 11.6 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel…

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