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jkkmobile has branded the new 10 cell 13000mAh battery for the Asus Eee PC 901 as the “ugliest battery ever”. (It makes the 9-cell for my Acer Aspire One look svelte!)

The 10-cell behemoth was received recently by an EeeUser forum member who posted images of his new battery on the forums. According to JKK, the [...]

Oooh. Another gadget for my Christmas list. (Providing it’s available in time for my Acer Aspire One…)
Runcore is delivering fast SSD storage in mini-PCIe format for netbooks.
How fast?
From Kevin at jkOnTheRun:
jkk ran speed-tests on the storage and thanks to the high-quality controller paired with the MLC flash memory, he saw reads top out over 70Mbps with writes [...]

There’s quite a disparity in the number of units shipped between Asus, Acer and MSI.
Even though MSI netbooks have received positive reviews and have somewhat of a cult following, estimated unit sales of the little machines will only be between 600,000 and 700,00 in 2008. Compare that to Asus’ estimated 5 million units and Acer’s [...]

Last week, DigiTimes covered the Asus earnings call and quoted CEO Jerry Shen as saying that the company would offer a $200 netbook in 2009 while at the same time phasing out 7-inch and 8.9-inch displays.
Sizes up, costs down? Huh?
As it turns out, DigiTimes got it wrong.
From Liliputing:
Apparently Asus was surprised at the news too, because [...]

ASUS has indicated that it will ship 5 million Eee PC netbooks this year. That’s big. But Acer thinks it’s output will be bigger.
Acer said that shipments of its Aspire One netbooks could reach 6 million units this year.
Do I hear 7 million from anyone? Anyone?
[via PC World]