Over the last few years we’ve seen a lot of 11.6 inch laptops from major PC makers. Most of these new thin and light laptops have been budget machines that are designed to fill a niche between a low power netbook and a full-fledged laptop or desktop PC. They’re not usually designed as full-on desktop replacements, since they’re generally just…

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The Fujitsu LifeBook PH520 is a thin and light 11.6 inch notebook with an AMD processor. And like most Fujitsu notebooks, it’s a bit pricier than the competition. The Fujitsu PH520 was first introduced a few weeks ago, and now it’s available for purchase in the US for $599. That’s about $170 more than Amazon is charging for the Acer…

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Acer’s latest 11.6 inch thin and light laptop with an AMD chipset is now available for purchase. Amazon is selling the Acer Aspire One 721 for $429.99 plus free shipping. The laptop, which was introduced last month, features a 1.7GHz AMD Athlon II Neo processor and ATI Radeon HD 4225 graphics with 384MB of dedicated video memory. That should give…

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The recently introduced Acer Aspire One 752 thin and light laptop goes on sale in Japan on April 23rd. The notebook has an 11.6 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display. And while most models in the Aspire One series have Intel Atom processors, this notebook has a more powerful Intel CULV processor and integrated Intel GMA 4500MHD graphics. In other…

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Asus has been offering the UL20A thin and light laptop with an Intel CULV processor in a handful of configurations since late 2009. Now it looks like Asus is giving the Ul20A a minor update with the launch of the UL20AT. Notebook Review forum member David  posted the spec sheets for a number of new and existing Asus notebooks found…

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What do you get if you rip out the guts of an Acer Aspire Timeline 1810 laptop and replace the CULV processor with a newer, faster, Core i5 chip? Apparently what you get is the Acer Aspire TimelineX 1830T. Macles has uncovered the first photos and details about this upcoming notebook. It will reprotedly have an 11.6 inch, 1366 x…

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MSI has been showing off its latest 12 inch notebooks for a few months. But now it looks like it’s actually available for purchase in the US. The MSI Wind U230 comes in two flavors. The Wind U230-033 has an AMD Athlon Neo MV-40 CPU and 250GB hard drive while the AMD U230-040 has  dual core AMD Athlon X2 L335…

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LG’s X300 notebook will be available in Asia, the Middle East and South America starting this month. The laptop, which first showed up at CES in January, has an 11.6 inch 1366 x 768 pixel HD display and runs Windows 7 Home Premium. It ships with a 2 cell battery, plus a spare battery which should provide up to 7…

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Acer has introduced a new 11.6 inch laptop with a 1366 x 768 pixel display, Celeron 743 ULV processor, GMA 4500MHD graphics, and up to 4GB of RAM. If that sounds like the Acer Aspire Timeline 1410 which is already available, that’s because the new laptop is virtually identical to that model. But it has a new name: Acer Aspire…

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The LG T280 is a thin and light notebook with an 11.6 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display ant Intel CULV low power processor. We first heard about this model a few days ago when it popped up in Korea. Now it looks like the T280 could be headed for US shores as well. Wireless Goodness noticed an FCC listing…

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LG may have just introduced three new ultraportable laptops at CES in January, but the company ain’t done yet. LG Korea has unveiled a new thin and light machine called the LG T280. It has an 11.6 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display and an Intel CULV processor. The T280 is available with either a 1.3GHz Pentium SU4100 dual core…

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The Lenovo IdeaPad U150 features an 11.6 inch screen and an Intel CULV processor. It’s available in a variety of configurations with up to 4GB of RAM, 320GB hard drive, and a 1.3GHz Core 2 Duo SU7300 CPU, and a choice of a 3 or 6 cell battery. There are a lot of things to like about the IdeaPad U150….

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