A handful of Chinese companies have been pumping out cheap knockoffs of the Macbook Air for at least a year or two. These notebooks tend to be thin, light, and feature keyboards and touchpads that look an awful lot like those on a certain pricey machine from Apple. But they also tend to be loaded up with Windows or Linux…

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Nicole from Netbok News is apparently spending some time in the Philippines, and she’s been spending some time checking out some of the netbooks available there, including: Suzuki Neutron 1001 QN – $400 netbook with an Atom N270 CPU, 10.1″ display, a SIM card slot, a decent keyboard, and a touchpad with buttons awkwardly placed on the left and right…

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Xitrix is a computer manufacturer in the Philippines. The company has a handful of  desktop and notebooks to its name, but recently introduced its first netbook. The Xitrix TravelPro M-10 is a pretty standard in most respects. It has a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 CPU, 802.11b/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1, and runs Windows 7 Starter Edition. But there are a few…

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Computer maker Red Fox offers a handful of netbooks in the Philippines, with screen sizes ranging from 8.9 inches to 10 inches. Up until now the company’s only 8.9 inch model features a 500MHz AMD Geode LX800 processor. But now Red Fox has introduced the WizBook 890i, which features a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 CPU. The rest of the netbook’s…

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41You know how the Sony Vaio W is expected to sell for around $776 in Australia, while it has a list price of just $499 in the US? Yeah, apparently Australia isn’t the only region getting the short end of the stick. Yugatech reports that the netbook will sell for Php39,990 in the Philippines. That’s about $835 US. Even in…

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Acer has begun selling the Acer Aspire One D250 in the Philippines for 23,995 Pesos, or about $508. That’s about the same price that the computer was fetching in pre-orders in Japan a few weeks ago, so while I haven’t seen any US or European pricing yet, I’m guessing the D250 won’t cost more than $500 in the western hemisphere….

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Philippine computer seller Qube is preparing to launch a new netbook called the Qube M1 on December 20th. The netbook will come with an option of Linux Mint, Windows XP, or Windows Vista. What’s interesting is that Qube will load pretty much any version of XP or Vista on there for you, from Windows XP Starter Edition to Windows Vista…

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You know how the other day we were talking about whether netbooks were a threat to Microsoft because so many of the little laptops run Linux? Yeah, apparently the answer if you happen to live in the Philippines is no. Because one of the top netbook makers has decided to stop offering a Linux option in the Philippine market. Manila…

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When Blue Digital Systems announced the Deep Blue H1 in April, the little laptop’s $400-ish price tag was par for the course. But less than half a year later, you can pick up a far more capable laptop like the Acer Aspire One for less money. So it’s not surprising to see that the company has decided to drop the…

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So it  turns out that when I told you the Neo ViVid V1100 was an MSI Wind clone destined for the Philippines, I was wrong. While PC Corner certainly had a picture of an MSI Wind lookalike on the product page for a while, it has since been replaced with the photo shown above. I can’t say I’ve seen any…

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Asus Eee Hacks spotted a product page at PC Corner for a new PC that looks awfully familiar. The Neo ViVid V1100 MiniNote is basically a rebranded version of the MSI Wind laptop available in the US and Europe. This is hardly the first time we’ve seen the Wind pop up under a different name. Russia’s got the Roverbook Neo…

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