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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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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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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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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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We already know that NVIDIA has had its crosshair set on the supercomputing market for quite some time and now we have the first instance of the successful implementation of this intent. It seems like Asustek, the company behind the Asus brand, has brought out a supercomputer that carries NVIDIA GPU cores inside Tesla computing processors.

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MSI simply cannot stay away from the hot market that eBooks are a part of right now. So they are coming in strong with the NVIDIA Tegra powering the way. The chairman of the company (Joseph Hsu) let announced that MSI is indeed working on a Tegra-based device. Details are scanty as nothing else has been revealed. But the Tegra can mean a lot of things.

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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!

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