Taiwanese equipment manfuacturers Pegatron, Inventec, and Foxconn are both showing off new ultrabook models at the Intel Developer Forum this week. The thin and light laptops are some of the first devices we’ve seen to feature Intel’s new Ivy Bridge chips — which aren’t expected to ship until next year. All the companies that have announced ultrabooks so far are…

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[/caption] There’ve been rumors going around for a little while that smartphone maker HTC wants in on the tablet game, and it makes sense since pretty much every consumer electronics company in the known universe appears to be bringing a tablet to market in the next year or so. Today Digitimes is adding fuel to the fire with a report…

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While Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says the Windows 7 tablets are coming… a lot of folks are starting to notice that some are already here. Heck, some Windows tablets have been around for 10 years, but those tend to be machines with built-in keyboards and high price tags. But a number of PC vendors in Asia have been pumping out…

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Just because a tablet is running Google Android doesn’t mean it has to look like it’s running Android. After all, HTC has made a habit of shipping Android Smartphones with the custom HTC Sense user interface running on top of Android. And now Sascha from Netbook News.de found a tablet prototype that runs Android with a tablet-friendly UI slapped on…

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Who says you need an x86 compatible processor to create a home theater PC? No, seriously, who? I mean, I tend to think of desktop apps like Windows Media Center SageTV, Boxee, or MythTV when I think of media centers… but three out of four of those apps will run on Linux. And you can run Linux on a system…

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There’s been a lot of talk about so-called smartbooks in 2009. These netbook-like mini-laptops have low power ARM-based processors and are designed to get excellent battery life while maintaining a constant connection to the internet via WiFi or a 3G cellular connection. In other words, they’re a cross between a netbook and a smartphone, thus “smartbook.” Chip-maker Qualcomm recently announced…

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The Lenovo IdeaCentre Q100 isn’t exactly unique among nettops. This small, low power desktop is basically a rebranded version of a machine built by Pegatron. But the IdeaCentre Q100 is the first iteration of this nettop to show up in the US, which makes it noteworthy. The folks at Nettop Review got their hands on a Q100 and have posted…

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Pegatron has been showing off pre-production prototypes of its upcoming smartbook prototype with an ARM processor for a while. But IT Pro Portal has some of the first photos I’ve seen o the prototype hanging out next to the popular Asus Eee PC 1005HA. And in terms of size, there’s no contest: The Pegatron smartbook is thinner and lighter, weighing…

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Lenovo dropped a picture and next to no information about an upcoming nettop line in a Twitter post yesterday. All Lenovo gave us was a name, and the fact that the IdeaCentre Q100/Q110 nettops would be some of the thinnest in the world. Since Lenovo refers to the computers as nettops, it’s a safe bet you’re not going to find…

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Bob Morris is Director of Mobile Computing for chip-maker ARM. And this week he’s begun testing a Pegatron netbook prototype using an ARM Cortex-A8 based processor that clocks in at 800MHz. Pegatron has been showing off a version of this device since January, but it looks like it’s getting close to being production-ready. Morris says the little laptop has a…

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Medion is slapping its name on the Pegatron ION powered nettop that started making the rounds earlier this year. It should be out in Europe soon. Hopefully another distributor will bring a similar model to market in the US. Pegatron may be a subsidiary of Asus, but the Medion Akoya Mini E2076 looks a whole lot sexier than any Asus-branded…

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The Pegatron Vivid mini-laptop has three things that set apart from most netbooks available today. First, it’s based on NVIDIA’s Tegra chipset which bundles an ARM-based CPU with NVIDIA graphics to deliver support for 1080p video playback through HDMI while consuming less power than most Intel Atom based netbooks. Second, the Pegatron Vivid has a built in battery which isn’t…

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