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3K, US computer manufacturer, has announced a new rival for the Eee PC and the other mini computers existent on the market.

This new one is called Longitude 400 and 3K Computers planned to release it on the market next month at a price of $399, but you can pre-order it now.

It is an ultra mobile PC weighting under 2 lbs, with a 7-inch LCD TFT display, just like the first version of the famous Eee PC, and it has also a full QWERTY keyboard, besides other functionalities I will tell you about in the following paragraphs, which make it a good laptop for mobile professionals, students and people that like to spend much time on the Internet and in chat rooms.

Longitude 400 Mini Notebook UMPC supports mobile broadband Internet connectivity and comes with the Office suite including AbiWord and GNUMeric, as well as some games, schedulers, music players, movie players and other useful applications.

It is powered by a 400 Mhz processor and has 3 USB ports, Ethernet LAN port, while running on Linux operating system.