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We first heard about the Crunchpad January 2009.  Now, and ironically, the company that is known for getting the scoop has been scooped.  Last night a handful of pictures detailing the latest iteration of the Crunchpad were leaked to the blogosphere.  Soon after Crunchgear, the gadget arm of Techcrunch conceded and posted more pics since the ‘cat was out of the bag’.  Now Arrington, the man behind the curtain has written a post dedicated to the Crunchpad discussing its genesis and more importantly the cost to build the machine, $250.  Techcrunch hasn’t said if the machine will come to market, but at the end of the day, and as I commented on another blog, the Crunchpad is an oversized MID, which for some will either hate it or love it.  So to be clear, don’t expect it to be a data entry machine or a full blown email device.  No, the Crunchpad will be for you and your friends to huddle around and watch stupid YouTube clips of kids falling on their faces or glancing at your email.

Specs that we know:

• 12-inch capacitive touchscreen
• Microphone
• Macbook Air thin
• Intel Atom processor
• WiFi
• Open source
• Camera
• Speakers
• USB input

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Features:

• 2GHz AMD Turion X2 ZM-80 Ultra Dual-Core Mobile Processor
• 3GB of DDR2 RAM + 250GB hard drive
• DVD burner, touchscreen control, 12.1-inch LCD and 4.6lbs

Another day and another laptop cruises by.  Pardon the pun, but it’s just so darn appropriate given Acer’s latest 12.1-inch notebook, the Ferrari 1200.  Adorned in a carbon fiber like finish, the 1200 features a plethora of car like finishes, which includes an anodised metal touchpad that represents a sports car’s racing pedals and of course a Ferrari red racing stripe. Under the hood is a  AMD Turion X2 Ultra dual-core processor, 4GB of DDR2 RAM, DVD burner, Bluetooth, WiFi, webcam and a yet to be mentioned (or determined) hard drive size.

No word on price or availability, but the Acer Ferrari 1200 will be bundled with a wireless mouse.

[Reghardware]

I don’t know how he did it (or does it), but the famous Michael Arrington of Techcrunch has managed to make the move from blogger to inventor.  He’s teamed up with Louis Monier (former CTO of Alta Vista) to produce the ‘Crunchpad’.  It’s a 12-inch touchscreen tablet device with a Via Nano processor, 1 GB of RAM, 4 GB of flash memory, a 4-cell battery, WiFi and a camera.  Apparently, the Crunchpad is built for doing time sucking Internet activities (watching movies, surfing the Web, etc) and costs just about $200 to produce, which means a $300 retail price.  Who knows if it will ever go to production, but my hat is fully off to Arrington.

[Engadget]

Much like Dell did to the Mini 9, Asus will increase the form factor of the S101 from 10-inches to 12.  It’ll be called the S121 and the laptop’s guts, outside of the screen, will pretty much remain the same.

[EeePcNews]

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Features:

• 12-inch color LCD
• Built-in speaker, supports video and music

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Features:

• 1.6GHz Intel ATOM Z530 processor
• 1GB of DDR2 RAM, 60GB hard drive, Vista Home
• 12-inch LCD and more

Asustek is on a tare lately.  Last month they launched the ultra slim Asus S101 laptop and today they’ve announced (via a retailer) the Asus N20A 12-inch laptop.  It’s sporting an Intel Core 2 Duo processors (choose from T9400, P8600, P7350, T5800, or T5850), GMA X4500HD video card, up to 4GB of DDR2 RAM, up to 320GB of hard drive space, and a DVD burner.  It’s 12-inch monitor will put out 1280×800, which includes a 1.3MP webcam.  Connectivity comes in the form of WiFi, Bluetooth and 3G.  Ports arent’ too shabby either: HDMI, eSATA, 3x USB 2.0, 8-in-1 media card reader and ExpressCard slot.

ZipZoomFly is offering a preorder for the N20A for $999

Official product page here

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Features:

• 12-inch LCD with 1024×786 resolution and 250:1 contrast ratio
• Plays photos, movies and MP3s

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Features:

• Plays movies, pictures and music files on a 12-inch 1024×768 screen
• Accepts CF / MS / SD / MMC / XD memory cards

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Features:

• 12-inch powered subwoofer with a 26Hz – 100Hz range
• 2 inputs and weighs 35lbs

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