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.

via Blogeee

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.

via SlashGear