→ Asus Eee PC Seashell 1008HA, Palm Foleo, Emtec Gdium Liberty

The first Seashell model is the 2.4-pound 1-inch thick Eee PC 1008HA, featuring a 10″ LED-backlit display at 1024×600, the Intel Atom N280 1.66GHz CPU, 1GB of DDR2 memory, a 160GB hard drive, a 6-cell battery for 6 hours of run time, and Windows XP Home OS. The netbook will be available in six different colors: White, Black, Blue, Pink, Sapphire Blue, and Ruby Red. We have no info on pricing and availability.

Rumor going around that Palm could revive the Foleo, this time as a standalone device running WebOS, the same operating system that the upcoming Palm Pre smartphone will use. If there’s any merit to the rumor, the new device would look a lot like the original Foleo concept, but the software would be different. The device would still use an ARM processor, which means it wouldn’t be capable of running Windows. A standalone Palm Foleo could get somewhere around 8 hours of run time on a single charge.

The Gdium Liberty 1000 netbook eschews the Intel Atom processor for a MIPS-based 900MHz Loongson processor. And instead of Windows XP, the laptop comes with a custom version of Mandriva Linux with a series of widgets to give you quick access to information on your desktop or from the web. Perhaps the most unusual thing about the Emtec Gdium Liberty is that while most netbooks use either a hard drive or cheap solid state disk with flash storage, the Gdium’s operating system runs from a removable USB flash drive. The idea is that multiple people can use the same computer, but carry their entire operating environment around with them in their pockets.

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