Are netbooks dumb? Not anymore with NVIDIA’s next Gen ION

NVIDIA Ion has been a success enabling healthy graphical support to low end devices such as netbook, nettops and All-in-One desktops. Among the netbook manufacturers, ASUS, Lenovo and HP were on the top of the list to market  netbooks based on NVIDIA Ion. Those netbooks were a great success and had quite an edge over [...]

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Fit-PC 2i, the world’s smallest dual-Gigabit Ethernet PC announced

CompuLab after the successful release of Fit-PC 2 have announced the Fit-PC2i featuring  Wi-Fi and weighing on 13 ounces including hardisk. CompuLab gives you the choice between Windows 7 Professional, Windows XP Home with SP3, Ubuntu Linux 8.04. The mini PC is useful for not-compute-extensive tasks and measures just 4- x 4.5- x 1.05-inches.

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Acer Revo R3610 comes with Windows 7

Acer released their first Aspire Revo back in April 2009. Since then we’ve seen a number of nettops in the market that have the capability to replace desktop. Aspire Revo R3610 is one such model, it combines a good price-to-spec ratio to deliver a cheaper solution for those who want a low power and small [...]

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Lenovo to release world’s thinnest nettop

Lenovo is releasing its IdeaCentre Q100/Q110 nettops in September this year (2009). Lenovo claims that they will be the thinnest nettops with powerful specs. You can connect that to your TV to watch videos or play games on a larger screen. Like all other nettops these will also use Intel Atom processor.

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Nettop that Sucks – Big time

MiniPC a japanese company recently announced their new GF27 nettop that really sucks. I’m not going to talk about the other models, that uses better processors and give high specs in the box. The GF27 is not a big thing, it uses Intel Atom pool N270, up to 2GB RAM, gigabit Ethernet, VGA and DVI [...]

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Viewsonic’s ION-based nettops look pretty sleek

Recently, viewsonic announced its VOT series of nettops that uses Intel Atom processor and Nvidia ION platform. The six nettops are modeled as VOT132, VOT130, VOT120, VOT121, VOT530, and VOT550. Although these nettops may not be as powerful as other available, yet they are slim and look smart.

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Nvidia displays more Ion based devices

Nvidia Ion has become a great success in a short time, and many companies are moving in to produce more and more Ion based products. Recently at Computex 2009, Nvidia displayed as much as 21 Nvidia Ion based devices from different manufacturers. All of these devices are small form factor or Desktop PCs capable of [...]

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CompuLab releases Fit-PC 2

CompuLab has released Fit-PC 2, and claims to be the smallest HTPC ever made, which works on ultra-low Power. This PC can be used as a nettop and small-form factor media PC. As opposed to traditional Nettops, Fit-PC 2 uses Intel Atom Processor Z530 at 1.60 GHz along with the low power Intel US15W System [...]

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Ion based Nettop appears

Nvidia released its Ion Platform specifications some months ago, and Acer is  the first company to finally release the small form factor Ion-based Nettop. The new system is named AspireRevo and is going to use the reference Ion platform. The package is a complete desktop replacement capable for running 1080p HD Video with full hardware-decode [...]

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Laptop Market Division

Intel recently announced its plans to separate the thin and light laptop industry into four different Categories. Based on these, the products in the future will be developed. These divisions are designed to expand the computing industry, and make things unique for a specific task. Its based on Consumer Ultra Low Voltage (CULV) program.

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