Dell, Asus and Acer To Release New Sub-laptops

Dell have revealed a new 8-inch sub-laptop, thanks to Gizmodo where I came across the story yesterday. Visit the gallery at Via Gizmodo] for more pictures. No idea on what OS the unit is running but it does have 3 USB ports, a card reader, VGA out, Ethernet, it looks really nice. Asus have also revealed that they are releasing new EeePC based models one of which is the Atom sporting Eee 901 and the other which is a Eee PC 1000 series. The new 10-inch laptop should be announced at Computex in Taiwan next Tuesday.model. Acer have also launched into the Mini-portables market with their Aspire One. The One will run with Windows XP SP3, A 8.9" screen with a resolution of 1024 X 768. No idea yet on other specs but it looks like this category is warming up...

HP To Release Consumer Friendly UMPC

Several sources are reporting that HP are working on a UPMC which will have broad consumer appeal. They claim that "you won't even need to consider this purchase. You'll buy it like a handphone without a thought". I just hope that it'll be a windows based device because I've had it with windows mobile and all the other flavours of OS on the market. This device is considered to be a lifestyle accessory, that will attract the youth market and professionals alike. Thanks to the C-Net blog Crave for this one, read more at the link.