When you think of someone rising up to compete against the likes of HP, Dell, Acer, Asus and MSI in the netbook market, generally only big-name hardware vendors come to mind; maybe Intel or AMD. Even Samsung made sense when they entered the market. Hercules, however, is not one that would pop into my head -- and yet they are the latest in a long list of companies that are selling the mini-laptops, with the introduction of their eCafe EC-1000W netbook.

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Who is Hercules, and will they be around a year from now to provide parts and tech support... our junk room is full of failed junk from unknown vendors...

Hercules used to be one of the biggest graphic card manufacturers.
But despite that I'm a little bit skeptic about their comeback (if this is the same firm the news is talking about).