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Chinese Brushed Aluminum Netbook - Awsome !

Posted by Pro Blogger Sunday, January 10, 2010

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Here are the first images of a 10.1 inch netbook that fancies itself as being a cut above its cloned brethren sporting a polished aluminum chassis that is somewhat reminiscent of HPs Mini 2133. With a retail price set apparently in the region of of 300 bucks, this Sheng T108 is an altogether classier shanzhai offering that screams build-quality from the rooftops of Shenzhen. Read on for specs and pics.

You could argue that a polished metal chassis until fairly recently was restricted to handful of high-end / business class devices. Then along came HP and their mini 2133. Sporting a wholly more professional  looking aluminum finish, it kind of dispelled the idea that a netbook had to look cheap. HP also added a larger custom-designed keyboard, described it to the world as being positioned education markets and whacked a steeper price tag on the device. The world and his wife scratched their collective heads and wondered if indeed it was a netbook at all.

At the moment we don't a great deal about the company that makes the T108. Their English name appears to be Sheng Potential Technology Co. While they are new on our radar, they are of course based in Shenzhen China. Our sources tell us that their strategy is to offer products that aim slightly higher than most shanzhai-made offerings; this T108 would appear to confirm this.

The Sheng T108 does indeed from the outside look like a flashy piece of kit, and while inside it's all pretty much what we'd expect from a netbook, there are a few notable exceptions. While you'll find an Intel Atom N280 and its regular 945GS chipset buddy, you'll also enjoy a more substantial 2GB of DDR2 memory and a larger 250GB hard drive, upped from the typically miserly 1GB and 160GB that you'd expect on a netbook. The battery is a 3-cell 3000mAh polymer jobby, there's a build in webcam, VGA port, 802.11 b/g Wi-Fi, a SIM card slot for simple 3G connectivity and a standard card reader.

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Source: Shanzai.com

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