October 21, 2005

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Next update: November 4

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Last update: October 7

NEW ENTRANTS:
There are not many changes this week except in the ultraportable category, which sees the Fujitsu LifeBook P1510 displaced by long-time favorite Acer TravelMate 3000 series.

CHANGES:
The price of the Acer Ferrari dropped by S$200 this week; a market reaction to the upcoming Lamborghini laptop? With several notebooks becoming available at the retail level in November, we are keeping an eye out for the Sony Vaio VGN-TX series and Fujitsu LifeBook P7120 to fight it out in the thin-and-light category. The Thinkpad Z series is also a worthy contender worth looking out for. But will their features be able to beat Acer's low-priced models?

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Model	Specs	Notebook category	Price	Vendor
Acer TravelMate 3002WTCI	Pentium M 740 (1.7GHz); 512MB RAM; 12.1-inch screen; 1.5kg	Ultraportable	S$2,498	Active Foto and Electronics; AAAs; Newstead
Compaq Presario B1818	Pentium M 750 (1.86GHz); 512MB RAM; 12.1-inch screen; DVD writer; 1.6kg	Thin-and-light	S$2,899	Active Foto and Electronics; PA Mart; Newstead
Acer Aspire 5502WXMi	Pentium M 740 (1.73GHz), 512MB RAM; 14-inch screen; DVD writer; 2.51kg	Mainstream	S$2,398	AAAs; PA Mart; Newstead; Notebook.com
Acer Ferrari 4005WLMI	AMD Turion (2.0GHz); 1GB RAM; 15.4-inch screen; DVD writer; 3.01kg	Desktop replacement	S$3,698	AAAs; PA Mart; Newstead

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