Its starting to look like a paradigm shift. It happened in HDTVs when people like Kodak and Westinghouse started putting their names on big flat panel sets (disclosure: I have a Westinghouse LCD HDTV, and it rocks the socks off of locks, knox). Now, a company called Digital Gadgets is using the Sylvania name on their new g netbook MESO line of micro lappies. There’s really nothing special about it, either. Its an 8.9″ lappy with a 1.6GHz Atom CPU and integrated wireless. They will come in Linux and XP Home versions and have similar specs to the scads of other netbooks now or soon to be flooding the market. Pricing appears to be starting around US$399 and up and they should be available within the next 30 days.

written by Tyler Regas