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Acer is positioning the Gateway brand as its stylish counter-part so whenever we see an Aspire One out the door, expect a corresponding Gateway LT netbooks to follow suit. Spotted at an Asianic store yesterday are the 10.1″ Gateway LT2003i and the 11.6″ Gateway LT3102i.

These two are basically cousins of the Acer Aspire One D250 and the AO571 with some minor design differences and a CPU coming from AMD with the 11.6″ LT3102i.

Gateway LT2003i Mini Note Intel Atom N280 1.66GHz 10.1″ display screen @ 1024×600 pixels 1GB DDR2 RAM 160GB SATA HDD WiFi 802.11 b/g Bluetooth Webcam Windows XP Home 1.33 kg weight 6-cell battery Price: Php21,995

Gateway LT3102i Ultra Slim Laptop AMD Athlon 64 L110 CPU 1.2 GHz Mobile AMD Athlon M690E Express Chipset ATI Radeon X1270 (384MB dedicated, up to 640MB shared system memory) 2GB DDR2 RAM 11.6″ display screen, 1366×768 WXGA 250GB SATA HDD Windows Vista Home Basic WiFi 802.11 b/g Bluetooth Card Reader Webcam 6-cells battery @ 5200 mAh (about 5.5 hours) 1.43 kg weight Price: Php26,995

It would be very interesting to know how that Athlon 64 L110 CPU would fare compared to say an Atom Z520 1.33GHz CPU. At least the Gateway LT3102i has a graphics chip with a fairly-sized dedicated memory.