YugaTech recently has a list of cheap laptops that are on sale in Manila. Check out the comparison in his list below:

Included are brands fromECS, Neo, Prestigio, IBM, Packard Bell, Blue, Acer, Asus, HP, Compaq, Lenovo and MSI.

Announced recently in Taiwan are the new Asus EeePC 1000 and Eee PC 1001 which sports 10 inch screens and Intel Atom processors.

The 12 incher laptops from HP and Compaq are getting cheaper. What used to cost over Php80 grand is now less than Php60 and could go as cheap as Php35k.

At a smaller form factor, the Compaq Presario’s 12.1″ screen is as clear and bright as the v3000 series. The screen real estate still supports up to 1280×800 pixels, powered by a embedded Intel GMA X3100 graphics hardware.

It’s lighter too — 1.79kg is just over 4 lbs. It’s not on the top end of HP (the tx2000 series is) but this rig has an Intel Core 2 Duo T7250 that runs at 2.0 GHz with a default 1024 MB (2×512MB) of RAM. The 160GB of HDD space and a DVD+RW puts it on the middle of the scale in storage space.

Read full review of the Compaq Presario B1256TU.

Source: YugaTech

Processor: AMD LX800 500MHz (10-inch model) and AMD LX700 400MHz (8-inch model)
Operating System: Linux
Screen Size: 8 and 10.2 inch (1024×600, 16:9)
Storage: 20GB and 60GB HDD
Memory: 256MB and 512MB RAM
802.11b/g WiFi
PCMCIA slot
SD/MMC/MS card reader
2 USB port

* Intel Celeron M 353 (900 MHz)
* 512MB DDR2 RAM
* 30GB PATA Hard Disk
* 7–inch LCD Display (WVGA)
* WiFi
* 2 USB ports
* Card reader
* 10/100 LAN
* Microsoft Windows XP Starter

Via C7-M (clock speed at 1.2GHz) processor
1 GB memory
30GB hard disk drive
built-in 1.3MP webcam
WiFi network
7″ LCD touch screen (with handwriting capability, WVGA 800×400).

Gigabyte M912

Intel CPU 1.6GHz with 1GB RAM
Chipset Intel 945GSE
8.9”LCD panel/WXGA 1280×768, w/Touch screen, LED Backlight
HDD 2.5” 9.5mm S-ATA HDD 120/160/250GB
USB X 3, Mic in/Earphone out/D-SUB RJ45 / SD card
Wifi and BlueTooth 2.0 built-in
1.3M pixel CMOS camera
Battery Li-ion 4400mAh, Battery life 4 hrs
Dimensions: 235 x 180 x 28~42mm
Weight 1.2kg
OS: XP or Linux

More information here:

Price of Gigabyte M912 here.
Pictures and details of the Gigabyte M912 here.

Asus Eee PC 900

8.9″ screen (1024×600)
4GB SSD + 8GB Flash (12GB)
MS Windows XP
1GB RAM

MSI Wind PC

1GB of RAM
80GB hard drive
802.11b/g WiFi
Bluetooth
3 USB ports
4-in-1 multicard reader
VGA output
3-cell battery (3 – 4 hours)
10-inch 1,024 x 600 screen