A-Data Technology lauched a massive 512GB SSD at CeBIT 2009. The company claims that it is the highest capacity SSD in the whole industry. It has the read rate of 230MB/s and write speed of 160MB/s. It can be used in laptops, netbooks and PCs.
[via digitimes]
Samsung NP-Q1EX, first spotted at CES in January is finally going to hit the US shores very soon. Unlike its older sibling, Q1U, it does not have a keyboard, which was quite useful for typing short URLs quickly and for basic office editing on-the-go. Although by shedding the keyboard, the Samsung was able to further shrink its size and thus making it more ‘portable’.
Specifications:
Samsung claims that it will have 4.5-hours of battery life. Right now, it is too early to comment on that. Also, its not-so-recession-friendly price tag of $775 is surely going to turn-off a lot of customers from buying it.
Looks like it was not completely true that the ASUS would completely rule out the 8.9-inch netbooks despite what the recent reports have been indicating so far. At CeBIT 2009, Shih said that the customers these days prefer the 10.2-inch models over the smaller models. This clearly indicates that most of the customers are looking for bigger screens and better keyboards.
Although, he made it completely care that the company is no longer going to concentrate on 7-inch EEE PC. Personally, I still believe that by using 7-inch screens in the netbooks, they can unveil even tinier EEEs (if they do not cover the sides with the speakers).
[via liliputing]
Onkyo have updated their netbook model 101 with the DC101WP and DC101BP. The DC101WP is white in color and DV101BP is black in color. The battery side has also seen a bump. It is now 11.1V and 4.4Ah (48.84Wh). Other specifications have not undergone any change like the Atom N270 processor, 1GB RAM and 160GB HDD.
[via akihabaranews]
Fidelity Electronics have unveiled Very Personal Computer, which has the specifications that were found in the old EEE 2G surf. Weighing at 1.5 pounds, it comes with a shabby WVGA screen and costs $199.
Specifications
Surprised by the last point? We are as surprised as you are. We are still trying to figure out what the folks at Fidelity meant by 100MHz Internet Browser. We fail to find a single advantage of buying the fidelity netbook over the now old ASUS EEE 2G surf. Wait, we do not even recommend the 2G surf to anyone too!
[jgadgets]
Gateway LT1001i has made its way to the Philippines. It comes with a fairly standard netbook specifications:
It will cost you a little over $400. All those specs makes the LT1001i a great overall netbook. With many netbook companies moving away from the 8.9-inch netbooks, it is nice to see certain companies still rolling out 8.9-inch netbook models. This will attract those customers who have been looking for smaller netbooks and found 10.2-inch netbooks a bit bulky to carry around.
Dell has published several illustration photos with description of how to disassemble the Dell Mini 10 and gain access to the HDD, CPU and Wireless card. Please note that you will have to take keyboard out in order to get your hands on the aforementioned items. And by removing the trackpad assembly, you can even add TV tuner to the unit. Unfortunately, you cannot upgrade the RAM as it soldered to the unit. More pictures:
[via mydellmini]
It looks like that not all the Dell Mini 9s are same or shall I say “Dell has made an improvement”. The hinge of the old Dell Mini 9 (shown on the right) would not allow the screen to go back as the one shown on the left. The ability to go back more can provide better viewing angles in certain positions, say when you are standing.
My trusty ASUS EEE 1000H can go back a great deal, almost 160-deg or so. It is pity that the older Dell Mini 9’s hinge did not allow the users to let their screens go back as compared to the new Dell Mini 9’s hinge.
[related post on DellMini forums]
Asus Eee PC 1000HE is going to be made available in many colors, which includes colors like silver, gold, pink, blue and ofcourse, black and white. There will be no changes hardware-wise or software-wise in these models.
Specifications:
Intel Atom N280 processor @ 1.66GHz
160GB HDD
1GB RAM
10GB EEE storage (read more about it)
WiFi b/g/n
Bluetooth 2.0
The Atom Chip is very tiny and is very popular among netbooks. Toradex has unveiled ROBIN chipsets which are the credit card-sized that feature Z510 and Z530 computer modules, which manages to fit quite a bit in fairly small space. They have on-board RAM, support of upto 7 USB ports and even hyper threading support. They’re priced at €129 ($163) for the Z510 Robin and €179 ($227) for the Z530 Robin.
And supported-OS list is long since the Atom is fully X86-compliant:
