Archive for March, 2010
The EeeBox EB1501U sports a the Processor du Jour, namely the Diamondville Intel Atom 330 dual core coupled with Nvidia Ion (the first version). Not terribly exciting, but wait, look, USB 3.0 support. Also under the hood is a 2.5-inch, 320GB HDD, DVD drive, and 802.11b/g/n WiFi.
No word yet on pricing or availability, but you can check out the rest of the pics at Engadget.
Giada showed off a new nettop at CeBIT 2010 this week called the Giada Cube N7DT. It comes with a dual core Intel Atom D510 Pine Trail processor and next-generation ION graphics. Best of all, perhaps, is that the Giada Cube-N7DT has a built in TV tuner and DVD drive, making it a a promising little media center nettop since the Nvidia Ion Graphics and dual core Pine Trai processor should give the nettop enough horsepower to decode Blu-Ray discs although for now you’ll need a USB Blu-Ray drive if you want to go that route.
The nettop supports up to 2GB of DDRE3 memory, and takes a 2.5″ hard drive. It has HDMI, DVI, and SPDIF outputs, as well as support for 802.11b/g/n WiFi and Bluetooth.
No word on whether we’ll see this Giada nettop in the states anytime soon.
via Netbook News.de
Asus’s new Eee Box EB1007 may not look any different from their other Eee Box offerings, but this small, thin desktop PC packs a punch.
inside the EB1007 is a 1.66GHz Intel Atom D410 single core or D510 dual core processor, 2GB of RAM and a 160GB hard drive. It’s also capable of handling 1080p HD video playback, which means it either has a Broadcom Crystal HD video accelerator or a dedicated video card.
via Notebook Italia
MSI Toast Nettop
MSI have come up with an, umm, interesting new nettop this week at CeBIT. They call it the MSI Toast PC - for obvious reasons – although there is no indication that it will actually make any toast. The Toast PC is a nettop with slim, toaster-like design that incorporates a slot-loading DVD drive at the top that loads a disc sort of the way a toaster loads bread. There’s also a remote control that snaps onto the side of the nettop.
It’s certainly interesting – who knows if they’ll actuallybring it to market though.
Zotac HD-ID11 at Amazon for just $250.
Zotac is adding support for Intel’s latest Atom processor and NVIDIA’s next-generation ION graphics. The new Zotac Zbox HD-ID11 is the same size and shape as the earlier Zotac MAG nettop. But the new model features a 1.66GHz Atom D510 dual core processor and faster NVIDIA ION graphics.
As the outgoing Zotac nettop, they system will be available as a barebones system. That means there is no memory, hard drive, or operating system included. What do you get is a 2.5″ hard drive bay and a single 200-pin DDR2-800 SODIMM slot. The computer also has 802.11b/g/n WiFi and 10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet. The ION graphics processor has 512MB of dedicated memory and supports DirectX 10.1 and OpenGL 3.2.
The computer has 6 USB ports, HDMI and VGA output, and mic and headphone jacks. There’s also an eSATA port and flash card reader. The system comes with a VESA mount and a DVI to VGA adapter.
A great design feature is that you can open the case without any tools. You simply need to remove two “thumb screws” to open the Zotac ZBOX HD-ID11 and insert RAM or a hard drive.
Pick up the Zotac HD-ID11 at Amazon for just $250.
