AMD is a little late to the game, but it looks like next year they’re going to have a new chip in their “Fusion” lineup that will compete with Intel’s Atom chip. They have a few low power chips in netbooks such as the MV-40, but battery life on these is definitely sub-par. This will change in 2011 with their new chip, whatever it may be called.
OCZ has unveiled their new Onyx series SSD drives, and they are well below the usual price for SSD’s. Their 32GB model will be “under $100″ with no specific price listed yet. So if you’ve been wanting to upgrade the hd on your netbook for durability and faster boot times, now might be the time.
The ASUS Eee PC 1005PR has recently popped up on the product pages over at Asus, and it’s a very nice upgrade to the now best-selling 1005PE. It keeps all of the specs the same except for an HD 1366 x 768 10.1″ display and a Broadcom crystal HD accelerator card for HD video playback. There’s no word yet on pricing or availability but look for it to come in under $400.
The MSI Wind U230 is finally available for order online. You can check out our first impressions here, but the U230 is basically either a very powerful netbook or a sub-notebook, whichever you want to call it. It has a 12.1″ 1366 x 768 HD screen and a beefy CPU/GPU combination for HD video playback and processing power closer to a full laptop than a netbook, while still staying portable.
Here are the specs:
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The HP Mini 5102 has been available for awhile now, but just recently is available with the faster N470 processor. The N470 at 1.83GHz is only slightly faster than the N450 at 1.66GHz, but faster is faster. Checkout our full post on the 5102 here, but with this new option the 5102 is starting to shape up as one of the best available netbooks.
It has options for a 1366 x 768 HD 10.1″ screen, matte display, optional Broadcom HD card,
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Apple has just launched a commercial for their iPad, which is up for pre-order on March 12th. Here are a few screenshots from the commercial:
A new Sony Vaio M netbook has been spotted at some online retailers. It appears to be identical to the Vaio W except for a different keyboard and different trackpad location. Here are the hardware specs:
You may remember our post last week where the Nvidia Ion 2 was benchmarked for the first time and, disappointingly, it was about the same speed as the first version, and even a little slower at times. Well apparently there are 2 versions of the new Ion, one made for 10″ and smaller netbooks with an 8 core processor, and a 16 core version for 11″ and larger netbooks.
Well luckily there was a new Asus Eee PC 1201PN sitting out at CeBIT and notebook italia managed to run a benchmark test on it. The Asus Eee PC
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Asus has announced 3 new netbooks at CEbit today, and they are pretty close to the leaked info we heard about last week. Here are the new models:
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Gigabyte has recently listed a new convertible netbook on their product pages, the T1000. It is the updated model of the T1028 featuring the Pinetrail processor, and they’ve also added a chiclet keyboard.
Asus Eee PC 1005PE 14hr batt $377.89 Asus Eee PC 1005HA $269.99
Asus Eee PC 1005HA blue $339.97
Toshiba Mini 305 blue $339.95 Asus Eee PC 1005PE blue $353.39
HP Mini 210 $304.98
Asus Eee PC 1005PE white $326.87 Asus Eee PC 1005PE 14hr batt $372.12 Asus Eee PC 1001P $289.99
Dell Mini 10 w/ tv tuner $372.78
