A little while ago, Ripple Korea unveiled a nettop called the ‘Look’ which featured a dual core Atom processor underneath its slick looking, glossy block case.  And, while the dual core Atom was more powerful that most, we have learned that the next generation Ripple nettop will be even more capable.

Ripple has refreshed the Look nettop with an AMD Fusion E-350 (“Zacate”) chip.  That means you can almost certainly expect a bump in graphics performance.  Other than the new processors, the specs haven’t changed much: like the previous generation, it comes with 2GB of RAM and a 320GB hard drive. No word on pricing or availability yet.

The Trim Slice is a tiny $199 nettop with a 1 GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual core processor, HDMI output, and a few SD card slots.  Add some internal storage, WiFi and Bluetooth capabilities and you’ve got a very capable little machine.  Compulab, the company behind the Trim Slice has been pushing the platform for Linux, or even Google Android, they’ve now shown the little computer running Google Chromium OS.

Chromium is the open source version of Chrome OS, so it doesn’t have some of the built-in hardware security features found in Chrome OS, and nobody’s promising a 10 second boot time for Chromium on the Trim Slice.  But, it makes a great cheap machine to run the browse-based operating system and  Compulab says the Trim Slice can support Chromium OS on an HD display or even dual monitors.

via Netbook News

The Acer Revo RL-100 is a nettop designed to connect to your tv in the living room.  The smal form factor PC is poweed by a 1.3 GHz AMD Athlon II K325 processor and NVIDIA ION graphics processor which offer 1080p HD video playback and responsive performance without drawing as much power as some other HD-capable chips.    The rest of the hardware includes 4GB of RAM, a 750GB hard drive,  and a DVD burner.  Included with the Acer Revo RL100 is a wireless keyboard-and-touchpad combination device which lets you surf the web or search for media from your couch.

Although the RL100 has been available overseas for about six months, it’s now available in the US for the first time at a retail price of about $500.  A model with a Blu-Ray drive is expected to be available for $570 soon.

via Engadget

MSI is unveiling a new line of small form factor desktop computers powered by the newest Intel and AMD chips. The MSI Wind Box DC540 features an Intel Atom Cedar Trail-D processor, while the latest Wind Box DC100 is an AMD based system powered by the 1.6ghz AMD E-350 processor and Radeon HD 6310 graphics.

Finally, MSI will unveil a brand new model called the Hetis H61 which has a second-generation Intel Core processor.

All three desktop computers run Windows 7 and support 1080p HD video output.

via SlashGear and PC Launches