Round up: Mini notebooks

Here’s a quick look at six mini-notebooks whose main appeals are size, price and mobility. The recently launched Eee PC 1000 is available with either a 40 GB or 80 GB hard drive. Both have 2 GB of RAM and run a 1.6 GHz processor. Keyboard is sized at 92% of full size. WiFi, Ethernet, and Bluetooth enabled. Recent price: $549 Dell looks to be offering no less than five versions for their entry into the product line. Two main categories exist with LCD screen sizes available in 8.9” or 12.1” sizes. The smaller category will have three options to choose from with varying sizes of a Flash drive. The higher two will have 1 GB RAM, with the low end sporting 512 MB RAM. All of the units will have 1.6GHz Atom processors, except for the budget option of the two larger models, which will run at 1.3 GHz. WiFi and WWAN enabled. Confused?... [read full story]