Compulab Trim Slice Tegra 2 Nettop

Tegra 2, the dual-core ARM Cortex A9 and GeForce ULP chip found its way into a new fanless nettop. It’s called the Trim Slice, and is made by Compulab – yes, the same company that jut released that new AMD Fusion nettop we saw last week.  The Trim Slice nettop comes in a  die-cast metal case just six-tenths of an inch thick and crams in a SATA SSD, 1GB of RAM and most every I/O port you could want. There are  four USB 2.0 sockets, SD and microSD slots, HDMI, DVI, RS-232, Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11n WiFi and Bluetooth, a pair of 3.5mm audio jacks and S/PDIF out for sound, not to mention JTAG, UART and SPI interfaces for extending the system on your own terms.

The new Compulab Trim Slice nettop is due out in April, prices “higher than a streamer, but lower than a tablet.

Compulab’s latest is called the nettop is calledFit-PC3 and it drops the Intel Atom chips by previous Fit PC nettops in favor of one of those newAMD G-Series embedded chips.  The nettop comes with a dual core processor with integrated AMD Radeon HD 6310 or 6250 graphics, up to 4GB of DDR3 memory, HDMI and DisplayPort video output and 7.1 channel audio with S/PDIF and analog output. There’s room for a 2.5 inch hard drive, integrated 802.11n WiFi, 6 USB 2.0 ports and 2 eSATA ports.

The Fit-PC3 is a bit bigger than Compulab’s older models, but it’s still pretty tiny at 6.3″ x 6.3″ x 0.98″.

via Engadget and The Gadget Spot

Popular nettop maker Zotac has a new nettop, and it’s not powered by an Intel Atom chip.  Instead, the new Zotac nettop uses AMD’s E-350 (Zacate) chip with integrated Radeon HD graphics. We’ve already some laptops using AMD’s new low power chip, the Zotac AD03 is the first nettop.

The AMD E-350 chip combines AMD Radeon HD 6310 graphics and a 1.6GHz dual core processor onto a single piece of silicon. The chip has a total power draw of 18W, which is high by netbook standards, but pretty low by desktop PC standards. The computer can handle 1080p HD video playback with ease, and in fact, the computer comes with a Blu-ray burner.

There’s support for 2 DDR3 memory slots, a SATA hard drive bay, USB 3.0, a mini PCI Express slot, HDMI, DVI, and VGA output, Gigabit LAN, and 802.11b/g/n WiFi.  For configuration there are two choices – either as a barebones system (no RAM, a hard drive, or an OS), or with 2GB of RAM and a 250GB hard drive — but still no operating system.

via Netbook News