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This was an inevitability ever since newer models started coming out. Intel has finally decided to phase the first generation Atom chips. The ones to go out first are the Atom 230 and Atom 330 chips, the ones that came first. These two chips will be off the market by the end of this month. Intel had designed these for the first wave of low power netbooks and nettops. These saw extensive use and are still on market. They will be replaced by the latest crop of Atom chips from Intel — the Atom D410 and the D510, both of which are Pine Trail generation chips and have Intel GMA 3150 graphics integrated within them.

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You what I like about the recent years when it comes to home entertainment? NVIDIA Ion! That’s right, the combination of Intel’s Atom an NVIDIA’s ION is the perfect combination that gives you extremely low prices and pretty high performance. And things just got better too, thanks to NVIDIA finally getting around to making the ION 2 official. We are already seeing the ION 2 pop up on several devices and here we have something that should please anyone who is looking for a slim, stylish (relatively), quite and powerful rig to use as an HTPC. This is the Shuttle X325, a slim nettop that looks a good thing in the making.

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Remember that Gigabyte convertible netbook I was talking about yesterday? Well, it has shown up as expected at this year’s CeBit. So we have live shots of it from the CeBit floor, courtesy of Netbook Italia [Google Translate Link]. There’s also a video from JKKMobile. Yeah, those guys are really covering CeBit this year.

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After it was hurriedly and poorly announced only yesterday, the Atom N470 has been found to be powering a new convertible touch netbook from Gigabyte. This netvertible belongs to the ToucNote series and is called the T1000. <Insert obligatory Terminator joke here>. No relationship to a superintelligent A.I. network called SkyNet has been found. We are looking into the matter. Read on for specs.

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Sick of tablet news already? Well, you need harden up because the world is currently in the mood for them and Apple is not going to be spared its fair share in the blame. A pretty hefty share at that.

Whilst you were drooling/hating/scratching your head at the iPad, there was a new company that was getting ready to announce its own tablets. This is back where Apple gets its stuff made — China and the company hails from Nanjing. It is called Motom and it currently seems to have 3 separate tablet devices in offer.

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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.

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After a lull period post the pre-holiday product launch frenzy, we are now being greeted by last minute launches and news of the things coming in January 2010. This time we have a hands one video for the eDGe DualBook, news of not one but two sub-$100 netbooks and more. Get over to the other side and get updated.

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Alright folks, it is Monday again and it is time to catch up with everything that has been happening all around. This week has opened with a frenzy of things happening and it was really hard to narrow it down to the really interesting bits for everybody.

So this time we have the world’s first commercial SpaceShip being unveiled. First as in it is intended to be the first of a fleet of such vehicles that will take space tourists out into the space. Then there’s Apple kicking out developer along with over 1000 apps from the app store and the CrunchPad finally showing up in public. Get over to the other side and start getting updated.

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Asus probably did not have an inkling as to how much their new line of products will affect the industry when they introduced the netbook. Rather, they reintroduced it. The concept was already there and earlier attempts had been made at it. But when Asus introduced it, the time was just right. The technology for it was just emerging and soon it became apparent that the Atom will rule this new segment in the market – netbooks.

Netbooks marked a decisive shift in the market in quite a few significant ways. First of all, computer makers actually started working on smaller and cheaper models instead of bigger and more expensive ones. Besides, the recession had already started making its presence felt, so models like these really made sense. And the greatest impact was where it mattered the most – on the consumers.

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It’s the start of the week again and a lot has happened in tech world while your recharged your batteries through the weekend. Get to the other side and start catching up.

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