December 1 2009
Categorized Under: Entertainment, Gaming, netbooks
Tags; amd, asus, atom, dell, Gaming, intel, ion, microsoft, windows 7
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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November 16 2009
Categorized Under: Cell Phones, Desktop Computers, Entertainment, Gaming, Laptops, Misc, Peripherals, Portable Audio, netbooks
Tags; amd, amd phenom ii, android, apple, atom, beam, best iphone apps, chrome os, cooler master, core i7, creative, crunchpad, dell, djay, droid, DS, fcc, galaxy spica, google, haf 932, Hallods HD mp4 player, ion, japan, maemo, market share, mini 3i, mobinnova, motorola, MSI, MSI Wind, n900, nintendo, nokia, nokia e72, nvidia, overclocking, pineview, psystar, quad core imac, rumors, samsung, Sony Ericsson, spin controller, tegra, vestax, VIA, windows 7, windows mobile, windows xp phone, X10, ziilabs
October 21 2009
Categorized Under: netbooks
Tags; 1005ha, 1005hr, 12 hour battery life, 1201ha, 1820pt, acer, asus, bold, chrome os, dual processor, ebook reader, edge dualbook, eee keyboard, eee pc, entourage, fujitsu, gigabyte, google, haleron, HD netbook, ideapad, ion, lenovo, m1022x, multitouch, resistive touch screen, s12, swordfish, t1028x, timeline, touchscreen, windows 7, xp pro
October 19 2009
Categorized Under: Cell Phones, Desktop Computers, Entertainment, Laptops, netbooks
Tags; 360 degrees, 3d image display, 4g lte, alzheimer's disease, apple, asus, concept chair, dragon, financial rerport, green gadgets, growth, htc, ideapad, ion, iphone cdma 4g lte, japan, lenovo, live shots, microsoft, multitouch, netbook, nvidia, q3 2009, reading chair, reading lamp, revue, rocking chair, rumors, s12, sensecam, sony, spy shots, t91MT, texas instruments, verizon, vicon
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Hello and welcome to a brand new week. We are off to a great start here with great new rumors to tell you about, new gadgets being launched this week and a host of other things! So jump right over to the other side and get started, because you can’t start your week without catching up first!
October 7 2009
Categorized Under: netbooks
Tags; 1810t, 1820p, 680, acer, alpha, android, ARM, aspire, atom, best buy, booklet 3g, ceatec, chrome os, concept, dell, dual-screen, europe, firefox, google, hasee, inspiron, intel, ion, japan, kohjinsha, leak, macbook air, mini, mozilla, n10a, netbook, netwalker, nickelodeon, nokia, nvidia, price, protoype, sharp, tablet, thunderbird, timeline, twitter, ubuntu, ultrabooks, UMPC, weibu, windows 7
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With CEATEC underway and more Asian companies bringing out netbooks, the action in the netbook segment has gone east for the moment. Sure things are trickling down to the West after the Asian markets have had their fill but if you want to see netbooks that will never see the other side of the GMT, you have to head east.
Having exhausted all possible combinations of Intel Atom and the usual features found in netbooks, the companies are now keen on experimenting with things like in-built 3G, GPS, etc. Take the Nokia Booklet 3G as an example or look at what Kohjinsha is doing. Jump over to the other side for the entire round up.
October 2 2009
Categorized Under: Desktop Computers
Tags; acer, aspire, asrock, asus, atom, atom 300, blu-ray, cheap htpc, cheap nettop, dual core, eb1501, eee box, et2002, et2003, htpc, ideacenter, intel, ion, ion 330, lenovo, nettop, nvidia ion chipset, october 22nd, okoro, oms-q200, q100, q110, r3600, remote, revo, singl-core, tv-tuner, windows 7
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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.
