Category: PC

Acer has launched its first ION powered nettop, which offers advanced graphics capabilities when compared to the other nettops already in the market. If you’ve been living under the shelves and have not heard about the ION platform, then you have missed something really big. Remember that a couple of months back, we brought you news that the first ION based hardware will be a nettop. General manager of Nvidia says

“You will be stunned and amazed watching HD videos, editing photos, surfing the web and playing the latest online games.”

Yes, Acer promises that you can easily play directX 10 games and play 1080p HD movies on this mighty little nettop.  You can equip the nettop with HDD or SSD although I do not see the benefit of using SSD in a nettop. RAM can be increased to a total of 4GB RAM.

[press release]

The Mouse Computers have added a new product to their netbook/nettop range, a Dual Core Atom Nettop named EGPA33DR32XP. It uses the mighty Atom 330 processor with 2GB of RAM, 320GB HDD and uses XP Home as its OS. Mouse Computers have also thrown in a super DVD drive to make the package even more attractive. Price? It is going to cost you less than 400 euros. For the common man who does not do heavy video editing, this nettop can do everything you throw at it.

Most of us (except heavy gamers) use our computers for basic web-surfing; for managing media and office-editing. For such people, these nettops, especially the Dual-Core Atom processor ones are more than enough to do the job. The obvious question that immediately comes into my mind is: where does the market for cheap PC go from here?

[mouse computers (japanese)] [via akihabara]

At CeBIT 2009, ASUS  has showcased the EEE BOX B206. This EEE box features ATI’s Radeon HD 3450 graphics card with 256MB of DDR2 memory. Here are its specifications:

• Intel Atom N270 1.6GHz CPU
• 1GB of SO-DIMM DDR2 memory
• 160GB HDD+10GB Eee Storage
• Gigabit LAN
• 802.11 b/g/n and Bluetooth
• Card Reader
• 4 USB 2.0 ports
• HDMI port with DVI-D via adapter
• Dimensions: 222x178x26.9mm

Is ASUS going to advertise it as gamer’s EEE? Who knows? Anway, I was expecting to see it with Dual Core Atom processor. Imagine how powerful this nettop would have become then (dual core atom+ATI’s Radeon HD 3450 graphics card)

[via fudzilla]

At CeBIT 2009, ASRock have entered into the nettop segment by launching S330, a nettop using the dual-core Atom 330 processor. For storage, it comes with 160GB HDD. It comes with a total of 6 USB ports which should be enough for your USB peripherals. ASRock have also included their popular Instant Boot to make the overall package even more attractive. No information is given on the RAM although the Asrock has put 2xDIMM slots which lets the user expand the RAM upto 4GB.

[Asrock]

The ASUS Eee Top ET1602, the all-in-one touch-screen computer that comprises the full functionality of a regular desktop PC. Eee Top comes with a comprehensive suite of touch-optimized applications spanning productivity, entertainment and communications—enabling users to do virtually anything, easily

The EEE top is equipped with a 15.6″ resistive touchscreen, which would let you to use the select objects on the screen with your fingers. The LCD has a wide viewing angle of 170° (H)/160° (V), which would makes it great to watch movies with your family in your living room. It weighs at 4.3kg, but you won’t be moving along with it. Right?

The specifications are netbook-ish. It is powered by an Intel Atom N270 processor and 1GB RAM. Capacity of HDD is 160GB. Since, this would be mainly used for watching media, it has a “high quality audio chip” and has 4 Hi-Fi speakers.

Since, it does not has a graphic card, it would not be able to play the 1080p videos, but it should have no problem in playing 720p videos. It is priced at $980 (INR 44,000)

Learn more about it here || global link here

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Google has released a software module(windows application) that can turn Windows PCs into devices that streams media files to other devices.

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