Otaku Gadgets

Here we go, our weekly Apple roundup. We have spent an entire week without having to hear about the tablet, except in passing of course. You cannot avoid that. But that does not mean a dry week at all. Apple stuff has been pouring in as usual, rumors and news alike. So get to the other side, and enjoy your piece of the pie.

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Nettops are to desktops what netbooks are to notebooks. Thankfully, there is no chicken and egg story here. It can definitely be said that netbooks came before nettops. Of course, their equivalents have existed much before these modern iterations, so historical firsts are still a mystery.

Nettops are useful in many ways and in my opinion they are more useful at the average home than the netbook on the average lap. That’s because I will take a smartphone if I want the internet and will take my 13inch MacBook to get work done. And ever since NVIDIA’s Ion came to the market, they have been able to playback HD movies and also play a game or two. Ion consumes a bit more power than Intel’s Atom chipset but it is marginally more at about 10 watts extra at peak load.

Hence the Ion has been seeing a lot of action in the nettop scene. It’s especially good for those who want to make HTPCs on the cheap.

Get to the other side for a round up of five new nettops that you should know about if you are planning to buy a new home desktop on a budget and cut down on your electricity bills at the same time.

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Sony has been pushing their Blu Ray standard For quite some time now and it was only a matter of time before we started seeing Blu Ray making appearances in their own line of laptops. That time has come and gone. We have been witness to Sony putting out Blu Ray equipped Vaio laptops for quite some time now. The new Sony Vaio NW160J is the latest addition to other Blu Ray equipped Vaio laptops but has one major difference. It is a sub-1k laptop that also has some gaming capabilities.

The NW160J is meant to be a 15-inch multimedia laptop with some above average gaming capabilities. Although it is more expensive than similar competing laptops, it has the potential to fulfill the needs of a highly niche market. For those who want a great built quality in something that it smaller than mammoth 17” laptops, this is the perfect laptop.

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The Asus N90Sv has three variations – the A1, A2 and X1. They all vary on one or two peripheral features like the X1 does not have a Blu-Ray Drive and has faster hard drives. Other than that, you will not notice much of a difference.

This is a multimedia laptop and it is definitely bigger than the some older desktop computers. That’s right, at 18.6 inches, this thing is huge. That is something that you should keep in mind when you are thinking about buying the laptop. It is definitely one of the largest laptops you will ever use and you are not going to be able to conceal it or make it discrete in anyway. Asus probably wasn’t thinking about that when they made this laptop.

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Sony has recently upped the ante on their new Blu-ray enabled Vaio. The FW480J/T is a brand new incarnation of the FW351J/H – with a better processor, better graphics and generally better everything. That leaves us with just one question – why do companies have such superspy-secret-missile-code type names for their laptops? May be naming them Dorothy and Sue are passé (not to mention sexist) but having an alphanumeric soup is just too confusing, not to mention hard to remember.

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