Otaku Gadgets

So according to eee-pc.de, Lenovo actually has an Atom-based netbook that has the Thinkpad branding. Not only the branding, it in fact looks like the x100e that was released earlier this year. This one’s called the Lenovo ThinkPad Mini 10, judging from the label that is visible on the device.

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I have covered the Entourage eDGe dualbook several times on this blog. It has almost been a charting of growth as the company moved from alpha to beta to final release. Now they have acquired a content deal with PressDisplay which allows eDGe users to received select newspapers on their Dualbooks.

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What you read in the title is completely true folks. Sony is actually making a computing device that is lower than the $300 mark. Gosh, I knew the company was desperate but this really proves it. They want to best the Kindle in the e-Reader market, they want to build iPad competing devices, they want make iPhone-killer smartphones and now they want to compete with Asus’ Eee PC’s! This might get ugly — I don’t think Sony even remembers how to make and sell cheap devices successfully.

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Sony — a company that has its fingers in so many pies, it has to have a zillion fingers to do that! They are practically in every consumer and prosumer gadget category you can think of and hence, they too are going to try their hand at defeating Apple in the handheld segment. Not that sony is new to the whole handheld market (hello, PSP!) but this time they are looking at the whole hog.

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Remember that Gigabyte convertible netbook I was talking about yesterday? Well, it has shown up as expected at this year’s CeBit. So we have live shots of it from the CeBit floor, courtesy of Netbook Italia [Google Translate Link]. There’s also a video from JKKMobile. Yeah, those guys are really covering CeBit this year.

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Asus has quietly put on two ION 2 systems on display at this year’s CeBit. One is an Eee PC model and the other is an Eee Top model. Needless to say that Asus will competing directly with Acer now, thanks to these upgrades and the systems do look promising. At least on paper they do. No has gotten them benchmarked yet.

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After it was hurriedly and poorly announced only yesterday, the Atom N470 has been found to be powering a new convertible touch netbook from Gigabyte. This netvertible belongs to the ToucNote series and is called the T1000. <Insert obligatory Terminator joke here>. No relationship to a superintelligent A.I. network called SkyNet has been found. We are looking into the matter. Read on for specs.

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See here, when you are making a copy of a famous product, you might as well make something that is capable of running the original software as well, right? Yeah, that’s what I thought. It is the first rule in the “Fakers’ 101″ handbook. So anyway, you have all been looking at the MacBook Air fakes from Chinese makers ever since Steve Jobs pulled that thing out of an envelope. Now see one of them running the OS X.

Yes, if you have ever wondered about it, now you have you answer. Yes, some of them apparently can run the full OS X in all its glory. Isn’t that simply… umm… yeah, slightly meh. Still, these cheap fakes are really… cheap, they are thinner than competing netbooks and some have a larger screen. So if you can hack your way into making one run OS X for you, things are all the merrier.

This version however is a netbook sold by an entity that is currently flying under the Apple radar. They are asking for your credit card number and even though the price is $325 (man that’s a cheap Hackintosh), losing your money and identity may not be worth it you know. Just look from a distance and appreciate the many hours it must’ve taken to make this thing work.

The ‘HackBook Air’ video can be found on the other side. If you have a hackintosh you would like to show off, please do so by all means in the comments section! If yours is really good, it gets covered in a separate post dedicated to it. How about that?!

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That’s right folks, the memory makers with a creepy head in their logo — Kingston — have a new SSD in their SSDNow V+ line that is going for as little as $80. Since when did SSDs become so cheap you ask? I mean, Google hasn’t even released the Chrome OS yet (it is supposed to help bring the prices down). Well, SSDs are still not cheap, you are just getting a small capacity, cheapo SSD that is much speedier that an HDD but not as fast as the higher-end stuff. So how small is the capacity?

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I have mentioned the Entourage eDGe dualbook device pretty often around these parts and that is mainly because it has been going from a prototype of a great idea to a great product in good time. The idea of combining the best of a netbook and an eBook reader has paid of very well for the company. We, the tech press, have shown it a lot of love as well. It made its official debut at CES last week and that has worked really well for it even though there were a lot of other e-readers to compete with. It has the unique advantage of the only one of its kind — a dualbook.

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