Red Fox challenges Eee PC dominance

By Alex Villafania
INQUIRER.net

THE ULTRAMOBILE PC business is heating up as more hardware manufacturers are getting into the fray. Not to be outdone, computer manufacturer Red Fox and AMD have launched the Wizbook, which will compete with the Asus Eee PC (which technically is not a UMPC).

Although slightly bigger than the Eee PC, the Wizbook has a few features not present in the Eee PC, in particular a bigger hard disk, a larger LCD screen, and a PC card slot. Red Fox claims that it also has twice the battery life of the Eee PC.

But there are some features that are absent from the Wizbook, particularly an integrated web camera, an extra USB slot (the Eee PC has three whereas the Wizbook only has two), and a lower memory module.

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