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Acer has had a Ferrari branded laptop for quite some time now and it has prompted Asus to get a co-branded portable of their own. Their choice is the all powerful Lamby, Yes, gather round you power-crazy speed junkies for this netbook might get you that much closer to feeling the Lamborghini styling. Continue reading “Asus Has a Lamborghini Netbook” »

This one goes without saying but Computex will see its fair share of tablets and there will be Windows 7 tablets in attendance there. Industry sources have claimed that MSI is preparing to bring a tablet PC to the Computex event that will be held at the beginning of the next month. And it looks like Asus will give them company, doing the same thing.

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It is becoming increasingly difficult to find non-iPad related news these days. The pipes the flooded with Apple’s latest and greatest creation. You know what else it becoming hard? Finding worthwhile alternatives to the iPad that show some thought behind their names. Asus pioneered the netbook, which is now on the wane according to some and “not good at anything” according to Steve Jobs. So now they are working on their own tablet device and they call it the Eee Pad. Would it have killed them to think up a batter name? I guess they simply could not spare the extra resources. Competition is tough you see. So while they work on it, they are talking to the media and giving out some details about what to expect.

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These are new video cards from Asus that are based on the GTX 480/7470 GPS made by NVIDIA. These use the GeForce Fermi chip and the ENGTX480 has the GTX480 core, 1401 stream processors and a 384-bit memory interface. The Engtx470 has 1215 stream processors. Asus actually had already leaked the box art for these cards ands hence you may be excused if you feel that you are not seeing something new.

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Asus is saying that they want to compete with the Apple’s new iPad and hence they are planning and working on similar products which they hope to release in the near future. The company wants to build on the things they see as the Apple iPad’s weaknesses.

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Asus has quietly put on two ION 2 systems on display at this year’s CeBit. One is an Eee PC model and the other is an Eee Top model. Needless to say that Asus will competing directly with Acer now, thanks to these upgrades and the systems do look promising. At least on paper they do. No has gotten them benchmarked yet.

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While the name will remind people of certain fictitious alien robots that change shape, NVIDIA’s Optimus technology is something that works on improving graphics performance on notebooks without straining the battery. The basic premise of this technology is that it switches between integrated and full blown graphics options as required and it does it at a hardware level. This basically means you are not frying your battery while simply editing a text document. Smaller graphics needs are handled by the integrated chip and the games are handled by the dedicated part. Asus has decided to use this technology in their latest consumer multimedia notebook — the N71JV-X1. They still can’t be bothered to come up with names that people can remember. Specs follow.

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Looks like Asus’ “quick, make something like that!” development cycle has borne fruit again. Behold Asus’ entry into the brave old world print media with two new eBook Readers – the DR-570 and DR-950. The DR-570 is a 6inch device while the DR-970 is a 9inch device. So the question is why they are not called Dr-500 and DR-900. Nevermind. So it seems like Asus is suddenly very forthcoming about their eBook readers. Last time they were asked, they were really reluctant to say anything beyond a vague acknowledgement.

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This is the second half of the ‘Tablets in 2010’ story. Please continue over to the other side for the remaining few tablets that are expected to arrive this year.

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Here we are once again, with a round up of all that is hot in tech in the past few days. A lot has been happening as usual with the year end approaching. The anticipation for the new year is building with so many different companies readying their devices for launches through the first two quarters of 2010. Of course, not all of them are talking about it but the leaks do that work for them, whether they like it or not. So get over to the other side and get updated.

Continue reading “Catch Up Monday: New Verizon Phones Leaked, XPERIA X10 On Radar Again, ION 2 Confirmed And More” »