It looks like the number of
netbook hold-outs just keeps on dwindling, with Lenovo and Sylvania now entering the fray, and Intel coming back for another kick at the can. While details are light on Lenovo's offering, the company is reportedly looking at launching it as soon of September of this year, and it'll apparently be targeting both consumer and enterprise markets with it. Sylvania, on the other hand, is going squarely after the average user with its new "g netbook MESO" (pictured above), which it'll apparently be offering in addition to its recently announced
Cloudbook iteration. This one is said to boast an 8.9-inch display, along with the usual 1.6GHz Atom processor, an 80GB hard drive, a built-in card reader, a webcam, and your choice of Windows XP or Ubuntu Netbook Remix for an OS. No word on a price just yet, but the lack of SSD would seem to suggest it'll be on the lower end of things. Lastly, we have word that Intel is already hard at work on the third version of its
Classmate PC, although the company apparently isn't going any farther than to say that it'll have a "new look and feel," and that it'll get both hardware and software upgrades. And really, is there anything more you need to know than that?
Read - Out of the Box, "Sylvania to enter expanding netbook market"
Read - DigiTimes, "
Lenovo to launch netbook by the end of September" [Via Electronista]
Read - Crave, "Third-generation Classmate PC on its way"
posted Jul 30th 2008 5:52PM
lenovo netbook? now i have a real reason to tell Asus to shove it up their asses.
Matte black, mini ThinkPad keyboard, red TrackPoint with red stripe on the buttons, 10 inch Flexview, thin bezel...
fall into a vat of shit and die.
Fake.
Anything Sylvania besides lightbulbs just screams "don't buy me! I'm crap!"
yeah they are great bulbs though - I bought a bunch of CFLs a few years ago and they were on pretty much 24/7 for two years before they started to dim. I wonder if the netbook could last two years constant running?
Hmmm? Why just make lightbulbs when we can make puffy-looking cheap laptops?
Wha?! Sylvania? The lightbulb people?
Since when have they been making computers, or even computer accessories/hardware for that matter?
I have a really cheap dvd player from them. eh it works, and it was cheap.
I've been using a sylvania CRT for like 6 years at least.
Sylvania already makes LCD TVs, portable DVD players, Blu-ray players... is a netbook really that big of a stretch?
...at least the screen will be nice and bright.
Wha?! Sylvania? The lightbulb people?
Since when have they been making computers, or even computer accessories/hardware for that matter?
jason @ Jul 30th 2008 6:13PM
I have a really cheap dvd player from them. eh it works, and it was cheap.
Neutrala12ctic @ Jul 30th 2008 6:19PM
I've been using a sylvania CRT for like 6 years at least.
Neutralchefgon_ign @ Jul 30th 2008 6:23PM
Sylvania already makes LCD TVs, portable DVD players, Blu-ray players... is a netbook really that big of a stretch?
NeutralOneLove @ Jul 30th 2008 6:26PM
...at least the screen will be nice and bright.
For the sake of redundancy.
Ahahaha brilliant sir! If I could vote you up more than once, I would. (Not about to go log onto different computers to do so though, sorry).
Yep. That's almost as ridiculous as Polaroid making HDTV's.
$10 laptop, anyone?
Has there been anything else new on the Dell E? Is it even going to be released, or was all that just a rumor. I haven't seen any announcements on Dell's site. I've been holding out to see what they are coming out with.
I think you mean w00t-off!
Can't wait for Lenovo's netbook...
Another set of netbooks coming? What insanity is this? One could build a netbook fort and have each block a separate brand. It would crash spectacularly when we were done with it.
I love forts.
Oh the thing I would do for a miniature 8.9" Thinkpad... ooohh the things!!!
All of these subnotebooks are ugly and look like Fisher-Price toys. Here's hoping Lenovo can design a worthy one otherwise I'm going to get a Dell E4x00.
I think most netbooks look fine. My EEE PC 701 feels great (professional/well built) but some people say it looks like a toy :-(
With this Sylvania netbook there's no way to even try and convince people that it's anything but a toy.
This Sylvania one looks like it's made from McDonald's Happy Meal plastic.
I hope that Sylvania is around 200-250
lenovo aint too bad when It comes to notebooks, their consistency of good design / performance with the thinkpad series after taking the reigns off of IBM is very nice. The thinkpad is still proof that IBM / Lenova can make a solid notebook, so it will be nice to see their netbook.
so is apple making a netbook yet?
Now which companies HAVEN'T released a "netbook" yet?
Sony
Apple
Toshiba
Gateway
Waiting for them to join the fray! : )
Out of that line-up I am going to say Gateway is the only one really likely to release a netbook. Sony and Apple probably don't want to tarnish their high end images by edging into what is considered a budget segment...and they already have "ultraportables" of their own. Toshiba Probably doesn't have any real qualms about it, but they already had the Libretto line, so they might prefer to stick with that.
But if Gateway manages to convince themselves that they can get some of their bygone thunder by joining the royal rumble of netbooks, they just might take a crack at it.
I could be wrong of course. Personally I'd rather see Averatec join in.,,,
Sylvania beat Sony again?!
ooooohhh... Lenovo netbooks make me wet. never ever take the trackpoint away.
It looks like the old Powerbook G3...