MacBook Air Clone – Full Metal Jacket Edition

The MacBook Air is positioned as the ultraportable in Apple’s MacBook family. While it’s super stylish in the looks department, it disappointed a lot of Apple fans with the sacrifices it had to make in order to keep so slim. The shanzhai guys have just come out with a MacBook Air-inspired device that stays true to the styling, while still offering many of the features the Apple product lacks. And all in a full metal chassis… Read on.

Asus clone uses VIA chipset; adds HD playback

Here's an interesting device covered over on our sister site Shanzhaiben.com. The netbook is a dead ringer for an Asus 1002H and features the latest chipset from VIA, which purportedly can deliver genuine HD video playback, leaving your CPU to kick back and put its feet up. Are we entering the age of HD savvy netbooks? Is this phase one of 1080p goodness? Read on.