Toshiba, Gateway Netbooks Getting Pine Trail

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With CES 2010 just days away, a Canadian retailer has leaked information on upcoming netbooks from Toshiba and Gateway that will carrying Intel’s new Pine Trail silicon. The models are pretty similar, and have been leaked early ahead of an expected CES official unveiling.

The Canadian listings for the two netbooks have similar stats. Both will feature the Intel N450 processor (clocked at 1.66GHz), a 10-inch display, 1GB of memory, and Intel’s GMA onboard graphics. However, they’ll come with different hard drives (Gateway – 160GB, Toshiba – 250GB). Both will come with Windows 7 Starter edition. As you can see, pretty typical as far as netbooks go.

They both will differ in price. Gateway’s will cost C$299 (US$284) while Toshiba is asking C$459 (US$436) for the larger hard drive. As CNET reports, both computer companies are planning to introduce new, full-sized notebooks as well (remember those?), that will feature Intel’s Core i3 processor. Expect the new full-sized notebooks to be unveiled at CES. The two netbooks covered in this article will be released, January 8th.