Engadget http://www.engadget.com Engadget http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif Engadget http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/<![CDATA[Great Wall Cross PC U150 Ion-izes the Eee Keyboard]]>http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/24/great-wall-cross-pc-u150-ion-izes-the-eee-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/24/great-wall-cross-pc-u150-ion-izes-the-eee-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/24/great-wall-cross-pc-u150-ion-izes-the-eee-keyboard/#comments Our interest in the ASUS Eee Keyboard has thoroughly waned as the Atom N270-based internals have aged with time, but the new Cross PC U150 from China's Great Wall puts a little juice back into the remixed C64 form factor with the addition of NVIDIA Ion graphics. Sadly there's no battery or wireless HD out, and it doesn't support dual displays -- the internal 5-inch touchscreen on the right shuts off when an external monitor is connected -- so we're not sold on this guy as a lap-based HTPC, but we're willing to check it out. Anyone got 3888 Yuan ($570) and an extra ticket to China?

Great Wall Cross PC U150 Ion-izes the Eee Keyboard originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:18:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Lenovo IdeaPad U150 11.6-inch ultraportable hits the streets with $699 asking price originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>ideapadideapad u150IdeapadU150lenovonow shippingNowShippingshippingthin and lightThinAndLightu150ultraportableTue, 10 Nov 2009 11:29:00 EST<![CDATA[Lenovo IdeaPad U150 gets unboxed and critiqued (video)]]>http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/lenovo-ideapad-u150-gets-unboxed-and-critiqued-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/lenovo-ideapad-u150-gets-unboxed-and-critiqued-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/lenovo-ideapad-u150-gets-unboxed-and-critiqued-video/#comments We spotted the IdeaPad U150 sitting pretty as far back as CEATEC, but now it seems the 11.6-inch beaut is finally finding its way out into the wild, wild... wilds. The suave folks over at Netbooked were able to wrap their paws around a retail unit, and aside from just unboxing it on video (which was a nice gesture in its own right), they also ran it through some basic tasks and spit out a few general opinions. Hit the links below if you'd like to follow the journey from undressing to battery life testing, and hop on past the breaks if you're into this hot new thing called "video."

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Lenovo IdeaPad U150 gets unboxed and critiqued (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>ideapadideapad u150IdeapadU150laptoplenovoLenovo IdeaPad U150LenovoIdeapadU150netbooku150ultraportableunboxedunboxingvideoWed, 04 Nov 2009 19:26:00 EST<![CDATA[Lenovo gets official with Win7-powered IdeaPad and IdeaCentre machines]]>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/lenovo-gets-official-with-win7-powered-ideapad-and-ideacentre-ma/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/lenovo-gets-official-with-win7-powered-ideapad-and-ideacentre-ma/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/lenovo-gets-official-with-win7-powered-ideapad-and-ideacentre-ma/#comments Lenovo already got official with a couple of its Windows 7-powered machines last week, but it looks like the rest of the crop is landing today. Of course, we've already seen the 11.6-inch IdeaPad U150 and 15.6-inch U550 pop up in various corners of the globe this month, and the IdeaPad U350 has been around since the summer. That said, we'll take the OS refresh and minor spec bumps any day of the week (along with new colors on the S10-2), and that's exactly what we're getting. We'll spare you the rehash (it's all there in the read link if you need a refresher), but over on the desktop front, we're pretty stoked about the stylish (and previously rumored) all-in-one IdeaCentre B500. Packing a Core 2 Quad CPU, 1TB of HDD space, up to 8GB of DDR3 RAM and a 23-inch LCD, this thing may actually perform fairly well in tasks more strenuous than checking email. The business-minded K300 and bargain-priced H230 ($299 starting point) are less thrilling from a hardware perspective, but they'll certainly fit their respective molds quite well. The whole lot should be available to order soon directly from Lenovo, and there's bound to be plenty of options for those not content with base configurations.

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Lenovo gets official with Win7-powered IdeaPad and IdeaCentre machines originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>b500colorcolorfulcolorsdesktoph230ideacentreideacentre B500ideacentre K300IdeacentreB500IdeacentreK300ideapadideapad U150ideapad U550ideapad Y550PIdeapadU150IdeapadU550IdeapadY550pk300laptoplenovonetbooks10-2u150u350u550windows 7Windows7y550y550pMon, 26 Oct 2009 12:01:00 EST<![CDATA[Lenovo IdeaPad U150 is official in Japan, not very big]]>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/lenovo-ideapad-u150-is-official-in-japan-not-very-big/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/lenovo-ideapad-u150-is-official-in-japan-not-very-big/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/lenovo-ideapad-u150-is-official-in-japan-not-very-big/#comments Lenovo hasn't been driving quite as hard after the thin-and-light consumer game as some others (though that U350 is a sexy exception), but this upcoming ULV-powered, 11.6-inch IdeaPad U150 should put it right in the runnings. Unfortunately for us, Lenovo has only just announced the computer for Japan, with no word on when it might be coming Stateside. The specs are alright, with a brand new Intel Core 2 Duo SU4100 ULV processor, integrated graphics, 2GB of RAM, a 250GB HDD, multitouch trackpad and Windows 7. We still don't have a price to go on, but since the whole point of that new Intel proc is taking ULV chips to somewhere approaching Atom prices, we're hoping for good things.

[Via Netbooked]

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Lenovo IdeaPad U150 is official in Japan, not very big originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:38:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>ideapadideapad u150IdeapadU150japanlenovoofficialsu4100thin and lightThinAndLightu150ulvFri, 23 Oct 2009 10:38:00 EST<![CDATA[Lenovo IdeaPad U150 found hiding in plain sight at CEATEC (video)]]>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/lenovo-ideapad-u150-found-hiding-in-plain-sight-at-ceatec/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/lenovo-ideapad-u150-found-hiding-in-plain-sight-at-ceatec/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/lenovo-ideapad-u150-found-hiding-in-plain-sight-at-ceatec/#comments Can't say we've ever seen this beaut from Lenovo before. Unassumingly tucked away along a number of already-released laptops at the Intel booth, the 11.6-inch IdeaPad U150 is a lightweight with some interesting textures tattooed on its exterior. There wasn't a lot of details at the booth beyond its name, but from what's been unearthed via an xmit online product listing, it's got a Core 2 Duo SU4100 with integrated GMA X4500 graphics, meaning we're falling away from netbooks and into CULV territory. Performance-wise, we couldn't get into it far enough to check the full specs and run some tests, but as you can see in the video after the break, the boot time is not-quite-noteworthy 30 seconds long. Small, light, and more umph than Atom? Sounds like a winning combination, if the price is right. No official word on that, but xmit lists approximately $770 as the cost to own.

[Product page via Liliputing and Netbooked]

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Lenovo IdeaPad U150 found hiding in plain sight at CEATEC (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It looks like MSI has been pretty busy lately. We got a good look at the MSI Wind U120 about a week ago, and now the company's back with a slew of new machines and we have plenty of details for you to savor. Most notably, the U115 is a 10-inch netbook featuring the Intel Atom Z530 processor, 1-2GB memory, and a hybrid SSD / hard drive storage system. The solid state drive (being smaller and theoretically faster) is meant to contain the OS while the hard drive is to be used for data. The U110 is basically the same as the U115, except it only ships with 1GB memory and there is no SSD included. Also introduced were the U150 (sadly enough with no specs, besides the fact that it also ships with both HDD and SSD storage) and the WindBox, an Atom N270-based nettop designed to be VESA-mounted to the back of your monitor. The WindBox should be available Q1 2009 for around €300. Keep reading after the break for a complete rundown of all the specs.

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MSI unveils a slew of new netbooks and one lonely nettop originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 28 Nov 2008 18:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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