The folks at UMPC Fever have gotten their hands on the NEC Versa N1100 netbook we first got a look at back in October. And it turns out this machine is just as unattractive as the press shots indicated. It has an incredibly boxy looking design with sharp corners instead of the rounded or tapered edges we’re used to seeing…

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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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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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