Giada has been making nettops with low power Intel Atom processors for the past few years.  Now, the company has ventured into an new area, the Core i3, i5, or i7 CPU powered Giada D2301.  The nettop also comes with second generation NVIDIA ION graphics, a slot-loading disc drive (with DVD and Blu-Ray options, and USB 3.0 support. There’s also a digital TV tuner option.

The D2301 supports 802.11b/g/n WiFi and Bluetooth and has 2 RAM slots, a 2.5 inch hard drive by, and a decent aray of ports including DVI, HDMI, and SPDIF ports, a flash card reader, an eSATA port, 4 USB 2.0 ports and a single USB 3.0 port.

The computer measures 9.1″ x 6.9″ x 2.2″.

No word yet on pricing or availability.

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The folks at Linutop has a new nettop called the  Linutop 3 which uses the ubiquitous 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor but swaps out the more usual Windows 7 operating system for Linux.

The Linutop 3 isn’t exactly bleeding edge with its Atom N270 CPU, which is a single core chip that was first introduced in 2008, but it should still provide plenty of power, especially when combined with Linux. The computer supports up to 2GB of RAM, and comes with 2GB of Flash storage.

There are also 2 drive bays, a PCIe card slot, 6 USB ports, an RS232 COM port, Etehernet, VGA, DVI, and audio ports.  The nettop is also fanless design, which means it should be virtually silent while operating (unless you use a noisy hard drive).

The nettop measures 9″ x 9″ x 2″ and comes with the Linutop Linux-based operating system, which is based on Ubuntu. It runs OpenOffice.org, Firefox, VLC, and other software. It sells for 340 Euros, or about $443. For that price you could probably put together your own, more powerful Linux-based nettop from spare parts. But it’s always nice to have the option to pay someone else to do it for you.

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Mouse Computer’s new nettop rocks Intel’s latest dual-core, 1.8GHz Intel Atom D525 processor, NVIDIA ION graphics, and an 80GB SSD.  Those are some great specs for a nettop, which Mouse Computer hopes you’ll value highly since they’re charging around $600 (49,980 yen) for their Lm-mini30X.  There’s also 4GB of RAM, 802.11b/g/n WiFi, HDMI output, and a 64-bit copy of Windows 7 Home Premium to ease the pain.

If that pulls on the purse strings too heavily,  there’s a slightly lower-spec Lm-mini30S, which drops you to 2GB of RAM, 320GB from a spinning drive, and lowly 32-bit Windows. It comes in at 37,800 yen, or about $450 — which is still quite  a bit we think.  If you’re deciding between the two, might as well go the whole hog and go for the one with the dual core Atom and SSD.

They’re availabl

Peter at Netbook News has just published a detailed review of the Giada N20 nettop.  This new Giada bears a close resemblance to the Lenovo Ideacentre nettops, and isn’t much larger than a DVD drive.  Underneth that compact shell is 2GB of RAM, a 320GB hard drive, 802.1b/g/n WiFi, VGA and HDMI output, 2 USB ports, and eSATA/USB combo port, and an IR receiver for a remote control. The Giada N20 has a 1.83GHz Intel Atom D525 processor and NVIDIA ION 2 graphics.

Unlike the Lenovo Ideacentre nettops, there are no USB ports on the front.  Performance-wise, it looks like the computer can handle most HD video,butPeter says 1080p HD Flash video is a little problematic in full screen mode.

No word yet on availability or pricing.

The Boxee Box – called a ‘box’ but it’s actually a nettop computer under the skin.  Just like the Google TV.  Both of these guys use nearly identical processors, the Intel CE4110 in Boxee and the CE4150 in Google TV, each clocked at 1.2GHz. In the case of the Boxee Box, much of the interior space is used for the heat sink and fan to cool that processor. Ifixit did a teardown and also found inside include 1GB of RAM, 1GB of flash memory,  and a digital-to-analog audio converter to allow for 1080p video out of HDMI while still using legacy audio hardware.