Archive for April, 2010
Asus’s new Eee Box EB1007 has been added to their product pages. It may not look much different from Asus’s existing nettop range, but the EB1007 has new Intel Pinetrail power under the hood.
The EB1007 has a 1.66GHz Intel Atom D410 single core processor, 1GB of DDR2 800MHz RAM, a 160GB 2.5″ hard drive, 802.11b/g/n WiFi, 6 USB ports, a SDHC card reader, S/PDIF and D-sub ports, and an eSATA port. It measures 8.8″ x 7″ x 1.1″ and weighs 2.6 pounds. Options include a keyboard and mouse, stand, and VESA Mount kit for attaching the nettop to the back of your monitor or a TV.
Interestingly, it runs Windows XP – for now at least. We hope there will be a Windows 7 option soon.
There’s no word on pricing or availability yet.
via Notebook Italia
Nettop Reviews UK reports that Intel will launch a successor to their Intel Atom D510 nettop processor called the D525. The new chip should offer better performance than it’s predecessor thanks to both a slight bump in speed (up to 1.8GHz) and compatibility with DDR3 memory. Despite that the new chip is said to have the same 13W TDP rating and, according to Fudzilla, will be shipping sometime in the second quarter — so not too far off. Netbook Choice is also reporting the existence of the chip in a chart from Intel, but that chart pegs it at the same ‘ol 1.6GHz. We’re still inclined to think the 1.8GHz rating is correct, but we won’t be placing any bets until Intel makes things official. We’re just not the betting kind, really.
UPDATE: Engadget has received official word that the Asus Eee Keyboard will be shipping this month. Joanna at Engadget got confirmation here, and with this promo video if might even be real this time!
We’re not sure if we can even call it a nettop, but the ASUS Eee Keyboard is supposedly finally going on sale this month priced at around $500 – $600. We hold no real hope that this time the date is for real, but this is the official promo video, which is a good sign.
Engadget spotted this neat looking Nvidia Tegra 2 powered nettop at an Nvidia trade show display. Made by Pegratron, this mysterious little nettop is a thin plastic box is topped by a bamboo finish. On the back are HDMI, Ethernet, microphone and speaker plugs. Details are still very scarce, but Tegra 2 gives us a good hint: the chip can decode 1080p and Flash video, runs Android or Windows CE.
We imagine something like this going for $100 (though no price or release date has been mentioned) or so and acting as a great little home theater PC for the right sort of user if and when it hits the market.
