Remember the 3 new Acer netbooks we told you about Friday? Well they’ve all just hit Amazon and are up for preorder. Here they are:
Acer Aspire One 1551
Aspire One 533
Aspire One D260
Acer has made official the launch of 4 new netbooks today, one of which is already shipping (the AO721).
Here’s the details for each:
Acer Aspire One 721:
What’s interesting is how fast the AO721 is. Even with only a 1.7GHz AMD processor it gets a 3DMark06 score of 1235, which is only slightly less than the Intel Core i5 based Acer Aspire 1830T. And if you add an extra 1GB of RAM, it boosts the 3DMark06 score above the Core i5 1830T. Now that’s pretty good for $429 (now $452).
Aspire One 521:
The 521 is the same as the 721 but with a 10″ display. The hardware is the same but with Windows 7 starter and 1GB of RAM. This should sell for around $350 but it’s not listed yet.
Aspire One 533:
Aspire One D260:
Look for all of these models to begin shipping soon (except for the AO720 which already is).
If you’re not familiar with Jolicloud it’s a lightweight Linux version made just for netbooks, and has a really nice custom interface. Well the new verion 1.0 (no word on release date) will feature both html5 support as well as touchscreen support right out of the box. The demonstration looks really nice and smooth:
We’ve known that the new Intel Atom N455 processor would be available sometime soon and the Lenovo Ideapad S10-3 looks to be one of the first available for purchase. The N455 processor is only different from the N450 in that it’s compatible with DDR3 RAM, which should be a small but noticeable performance boost for certain processes.
We all know that the weak point on most netbooks is their graphics capabilities. Well the guys that created GMABooster did a little research and found that Intel GMA950 graphics are actually capable of running streaming hd video and most games. The problem is that the version found in netbooks is under-clocked from 400MHz to 133MHz to enhance battery life.
The Samsung NB30 Pro is a beefed up version of the normal NB30 with 2GB orf RAM and Windows 7 Professional instead of the usual starter version.
Here are the other specs:
Toshiba was showing off their newly redesigned Satellite M135 ultrathin laptop at Computex today, and Joanna at Engadget grabbed some hands on time with it. For some reason they’ve covered the palmrests in metal with some weird pattern in it, but besides that they’ve added a nice chiclet keyboard and the trackpad has dedicated left and right buttons.
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