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Pioneer XDP-100R is a high-res, high-priced audio player

Not happy with the audio capabilities of your smartphone? There’s a cottage industry for portable music players with audiophile-quality hardware. The Neil Young-backed PonoPlayer is one of the cheaper options, with a $399 price tag. Astell & Kern sells some models that cost thousands of dollars. And earlier this year Sony introduced a $1200 Walkman. By […]

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Australia’s Pioneer Computers adds a Honeycomb tablet to its lineup

Pioneer Computers has produced a couple of interesting tablet designs over the past few years, including the 10 inch DreamBook ePad F10 Oak Trail tablet, and 11.6 inch ePad L11 with an Intel Atom N450 chip. Now the company is introducing a 10 inch tablet with an NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor and Google Android 3.0 […]

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Pioneer DreamBook ePad L11 tablet to to hit Australia next month

The Pioneer DreamBook ePad L11 is an 11.6 inch tablet with a 1.66GHz Intel Atom N450 processor and Windows 7. What really makes this tablet exciting is that while it has netbook-like internals, it comes with some top of the line netbook options including NVIDIA ION graphics, a high resolution 1366 x 768 pixel display, […]

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Pioneer DreamBook Lite U11a to feature discrete graphics option

Pioneer Australia offering an 11.6 inch laptop called the DreamBook Lite U11a which looks like it will be available with a discrete graphics option in the future. Right now, the only version of this laptop available for purchase comes with a 1.66GHz Intel Atom N450 processor and Intel GMA 3150 intergrated graphics. But on the […]

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Pioneer Australia introduces new Pine Trail, ARM-based netbooks

Pioneer Computers may not be a household name in the US, but the Australian company has been pumping out netbooks about as long as anyone (which is to say, since 2008). The company recently introduced two new models: The DreamBook Lite M81 and DreamBook Lite E79. While the model numbers may look similar, these two […]

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Pioneer launches 11.1 inch netbook with HD screen

Australian computer vendor Pioneer is updating its line of mini-laptops with the DreamBook Lite A11 Ultra Slim.As the name would suggest, this is a rather thin and light machine, weighing in at just 2.7 pounds and measuring 10.7″  x 7.6″ x 1.1″. That doesn’t make it the thinnest netbook I’ve seen, but considering the A11 […]

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Pioneer DreamBook Light IL3 now available in Australia

Pioneer Computers has released a new netbook with an 8.9 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display and a 1.6GHz Intel Atom CPU. The IL3 starts at $599 Australian, or about $524 US, but customers can customize their order to some degree. You can’t alter the hard drive size or add 802.11n or anything. But you […]

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Pioneer Australia announces two new netbooks

Pushing the boundaries of “low cost” laptops, Pioneer Australia is set to release two new netbooks in July. The DreamBook Light CE2A is based on the same reference design as the upcoming Everex Cloudbook, but costs over $100 more at $599 AU or about $577 US. The company is also releasing the DreamBook Light M91, […]