The Apple iPad 2 may have been unveiled just yesterday, but that doesn’t mean it’s too early for Chinese knockoff artists to start producing iPad 2 clones. In fact, one of the first is a tablet that many news sites were reporting on before Apple’s new tablet launched… under the impression that it could actually be the iPad 2. It…

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Lenovo ThinkPad products are known for their premium specs and no-nonsense case design. But a Chinese company is apparently adding a bit of nonsense by releasing a knockoff that looks like the Lenovo ThinkPad X200, complete with ThinkPad branding. But the processing power has been seriously dialed back with the inclusion of a 1.66GHz Intel Atom N450 processor and integrated…

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The last mini-laptop I saw from Chinese PC builder Vayee was an 11.6 inch laptop designed to look like a MacBook Air (before Apple had an 11.6 inch MacBook Air). Now the company is back with a 10 inch netbook designed to look like a Nokia Booklet 3G. The Vayee netbook has 1.66GHz Intel Atom N450 processor, 1GB of RAM,…

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What happens if you take the Asus UL30, scoop out the insides and replace the Intel CULV processor with an Atom chip and NVDIIA IOn graphics? I have no idea, but the folks at Phecda have done the next best thing by producing a UL30 clone called the Phecda P13. The notebook has a 13.3 inch, 1366  x 768 pixel…

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The HP Mini 5103 may seem like the netbook that has it all — an all-metal case, 7200RPM hard drive, optional HD and touchscreen displays, an optional dual core CPU, hard drive sensor to prevent damage, and even a battery indicator built right into the battery. But you know what it doesn’t have? NVIDIA ION graphics. Fortunately there’s always a…

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The Dell Adamo laptop is a high priced, high powered thin and light machine, with prices starting at $999. The Shenzhen Zingzheng Yu N98 isn’t. But it steals many design cues from Dell’s high end notebook. The difference is that on the inside, the N98 is all netbook — and it has the low $209 price tag to match. The…

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The Nokia Booklet 3G made a pretty big splash when it hit the water last year. And then it kind of sunk. I’m not sure I’ve ever actually seen one in the wild unless you count a Best Buy retail display as wild. And aside from a high price tag and rather unorthadox case design, Nokia didn’t really bring that…

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If there’s one thing that’s not hard to find in China, it’s Macbook Air clones. And rice. I hear that’s popular there too. But back to Macbook Air clones, we’ve seen a number of underpowered thin and light laptops with a distinct Apple-like style. One of the latest is a machine from Shenzhou Vayee. The laptop has an 11.6 inch,…

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Chinese companies have been pumping out iPad clones for longer than Apple has actually been selling the 10 inch tablet. The first models were just Android or Windows 7-powered tablets designed to look like an oversized iPod touch. And when Apple announced that the iPad really would look like an oversized iPad touch, well… not much changed. But according to…

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Here’s what I love about Chinese electronics knockoff artists: They’ll try things that no Western company would ever even dream of. Case in point: a Sony Vaio W knockoff from China which doesn’t just look a bit like Sony’s 10 inch netbook — it even has the Sony Vaio brand name plastered all over it. You can tell someone’s not…

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We’ve seen a lot of cheap Sony Vaio P clones over the last 18 months or so. But one thing most have in common is that they tend to only be available in Asia. You know, unless someone goes through the trouble of shipping them internationally — which is exactly what Shenit.com is doing with the “Pocket Sony Style L80…

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I’d forgive you if you told me that the picture above showed a stack of Acer Aspire One netbooks. They’re actually Chinese mini-notebooks from a company called Dai Rui. But they bear a more-than-passing resemblance to the Acer Aspire One, which I’m pretty sure is exactly what Dai Rui was going for. The main difference (aside from the lack of…

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