The NEC LaVie Light 530 is one of those netbooks that you just know isn’t going to be released in the US anytime soon. It might not even hit Europe. But if you’ve been lusting after this relatively mundane looking mini-laptop since it was announced earlier this year, you might want to check out the video after the break, courtesy…

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NEC is showing off an updated version of its LaVie Light netbook. The new model looks a lot like earlier netbooks from the company, but it has a faster processor, additional RAM and hard drive space and a couple of other new features including built in WiMAX mobile broadband support and a high capacity SDXC flash card slot. Akihabara News…

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NEC is updating its line of LaVie Light netbooks with some shiny new Intel Atom Pineview processors. On the outside, the ntoebooks look a lot like the company’s earlier models. But on the inside they pack 1.66GHz Intel Atom N450 processors and GMA 3150 graphics. The NEC BL530/WH6B has a 10.1 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display, 2GB of RAM,…

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NEC is introducing two more netbooks in its LaVie Light lineup. Both models will have a 10.1 inch, 1024  x600 pixel  display, and 802.11b/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1. The LaVie Light BL100 will have a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 CPU and a 16GB solid state disk.It’s only available in white. The NEC LaVie Light BL300 will have a 1.66GHz Intel Atom…

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If you’re one of the two or three people in the US  that had your heart set on picking up an NEC LaVie Light netbook when they became available, it looks like you may be out of luck. NEC is reportedly pulling out of the global computer business and will only offer computers in its home market of Japan starting…

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NEC is rolling out an updated version of its LaVie Light netbooks. The new models come in multiple colors including ping, blue, black, and white. And they sport 10.1 inch display, which would be roomier than the 8.9 inch screen on earlier models if NEC hadn’t decided to throw a 1024 x 576 display in there. While the true 16:9…

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When NEC first announced it would be entering the netbook fray, my initial reaction was “my, what an ugly little netbook.” After all, the only thing that seemed to set the NEC LaVie Light apart from the throngs of other netbooks was a rather boxy looking case with an unfortunate color scheme (A black PC with a white keyboard? Really?)….

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When the first pictures of the NEC LaVie Light netbook hit the web last week, I wasn’t impressed. The computer looks boxy and appears to have an enormous bezel around the screen. The folks at Engadget Chinese have had a chance to check one out in person, and they say it’s not quite as bad as the promotional images make…

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I’ve gotten so used to writing phrases like “virtually ever major computer maker besides Sony and Apple have released a netbook,” that I’m always a bit surprised when a company I’ve heard of but completely forgotten about decides to pump one out. With that in mind, today’s netbook announcement is brought to you by NEC. The NEC LaVie Light has…

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