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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” »

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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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Even though it has not been released yet and there isn’t really a firm release date on the horizon, it seems like Jetway is soon to become one of the first companies to adopt and use Intel’s two new Atom chips — the Atom D525 and the Atom D425 Both of these chips are targeted at desktop use and have compatibility for newer standards like DDR3.

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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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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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