Discrete mobile graphics circuits gaining shares

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Published on Friday, 04 June 2010 07:37 Written by Andreas Galistel

Mobile graphics circuits have been losing shares over the last couple of years and with both Intel and AMD working on processors with integrated graphics the outlook has been anything but great, but new numbers suggests that that the sales of mobile graphics circuits is going up.

Gigabyte M1405 with Nvidia docking station

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Published on Thursday, 03 June 2010 15:55 Written by Johan Karlsson

Gigabyte is perhaps best known as a motherboard maker, but over the last couple of years it has launched more than a few notebooks. One of the more interesting today is Gigabyte M1405 that is very much a laptop, but with an extra touch in the form of a powerful docking station.

ASUS G53 and G73JW brings WirelessHD to market

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Published on Tuesday, 01 June 2010 17:30 Written by Andreas Galistel

WirelessHD has finally made it into a market ready product. The technology developed by SiBEAM enables users to stream high definition video wirelessly from the computer to a monitor or TV. ASUS claims to be the first to get WirelessHD through the new G53 and G73JW series.

ASUS Lamborghini VX6 with ION 2 and B&O sound

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Published on Tuesday, 01 June 2010 12:49 Written by Andreas Galistel

Lamborghini VX6 follows the trend of PC manufacturers to borrow design and brands from other attractive markets. ASUS was influenced by car manufacturer Lamborghini where the latest models offer ION 2 graphics and audio by Bang & Olufsen.

Intel shows 14 millimeter thin netbook

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Published on Tuesday, 01 June 2010 12:26 Written by Andreas Galistel

Intel took the opportunity to show a new netbook concept during the first press event at Computex. Based on an Atom processor with dual cores the Canoe Lake platform is the world's thinnest netbook, only 14 millimeter in profile.

MSI X360 sporting new 32nm CULV Core i5-520UM

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Published on Thursday, 27 May 2010 19:52 Written by Andreas Galistel

MSI X-Slim X360 is one of the first ultrathin notebooks using Intel's recently launched 32 nanometer CULV processors. MSI was the company that really got the ball rolling for ultrathin notebooks with the X-Slim series. MSI has turned to the Intel Core i5-520UM CPU with 1.2 GHz clock frequency with a Turbo frequency of 2.0 GHz. With dual cores and HyperThreading there is support for four threads and 3MB cache for keeping the cores busy.

NVIDIA demos Tegra 2 tablet

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Published on Friday, 21 May 2010 21:28 Written by Andreas Galistel

Tegra 2 is expected to become the heart of many potential "Ipad killers". The ARM based System-on-a-Chip solution sports 1GHz dual-core ARM Cortex A9 processor, which is actually newer than the single-core Apple A4 processor found in Ipad. When Nvidia demonstrated a prototype of a Tegra 2 tablet it revealed that the unit had 1GB RAM, which is a lot more than competing products, e.g. Apple Ipad.

ASUS Eee PC Seashell 1201PN with Ion 2 approaching

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Published on Friday, 14 May 2010 15:53 Written by Andreas Galistel

ASUS Eee PC Seashell 1201PN will be one of the first netbooks to use NVIDIA's latest generation of Ion. As previously revealed Ion 2 isn't much more than a dedicated graphics circuit, but with Intel's limited graphical capacity there is plenty of room for NVIDIA to bless gamers and video enthusiasts. ASUS Eee PC 1201N is a 12.1" netbook that beside 1366x768 pixel resolution sports an Intel Atom N450 CPU and 2GB RAM.

ASUS Eee PC 1005PR can do HD video

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Published on Wednesday, 05 May 2010 21:01 Written by Andreas Galistel

ASUS has launched the new Eee PC 1005PR Seashell Atom netbook, one of few capable of HD video. Eee PC 1005PR ships with 10.1" LED backlit display with 1366x768 pixel resolution. Through Broadcom's Crystal HD media processor the computer can play HD video at 720p resolution, something a regular Atom netbook can't handle without a discrete chip.

ASUS gives Windows 7 Atom tablet a try

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Published on Wednesday, 05 May 2010 20:16 Written by Andreas Galistel

ASUS has several tablets coming, one being a Tegra 2 multimedia tablet coming. The Eee Pad series will contain several models and one of these is Atom model that will replace Google's Android operating system for Microsoft's Windows 7 OS. Considering the difficulties HP encountered with Atom-based Windows 7 tablets we can't say we're overly excited  about ASUS' plans, but hopefully it can come up with something HP couldn't.

Eurocom reveals GeForce GTX 480M, 100W monster

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Published on Monday, 03 May 2010 21:57 Written by Andreas Galistel

Eurocom has updated its component configurator for notebooks and revealed a new graphics option. The card is called GeForce GTX 480M and is a mobile version of NVIDIA's flagship GeForce GTX 480, which is a really terrifying thought considering how much power the desktop card consumes.

Acer to use AMD Geneva in coming 10.1" netbook

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Published on Tuesday, 20 April 2010 19:37 Written by Andreas Galistel

Acer is going against the flow and is about to announce a netbook with AMD inside. It's not the first to do so, but almost every other netbook relies on the Intel Atom platform. Acer Aspire One 521 will use the single-core AMD V105 CPU, code-named Geneva, based on the K10 architecture and peaking at 9W TDP.

Acer Aspire 1825PTZ and 1825PT touch netbook tablets

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Published on Saturday, 20 March 2010 12:08 Written by Andreas Galistel

Acer has big update of its notebooks coming and two of the new models will be something of a netbook/tablet hybrid. Acer Aspire 1825PTZ and 1825PT both ship with 11.6" screen sporting capacitive touch technology that can be rotated 360 degrees for tablet functionality. Under the hood we find Intel's CULV platform for optimal performance and power consumption.

Eurocom adds Core i7 980X to Panther notebook

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Published on Thursday, 18 March 2010 22:09 Written by Andreas Galistel

The title world's fastest retail processor is without a doubt held by Intel's Core i7 980X CPU. While most dream about having this $1000 monster in their desktop computer, Eurocom took it to the next level. It allows customers to install Core i7 980X in the "laptop" D900F Panther. Eurocom Panther is indeed an extreme laptop and can fit four 2.5" harddrive and up to 12GB DDR3 RAM.

MSI Proudly Unveils the X-Slim X360

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Published on Wednesday, 10 March 2010 20:04 Written by Andreas Galistel

MSI’s X-Slim X360, with the Intel Arrandale ULV processor, comes equipped with the Intel Core i5 processor with Intel’s Turbo Boost and Hyper-Threading technology for excellent processing performance and up to 9 hours of battery life. Graced with MSI's exclusive stylish rhombic pattern, the X360 is the apex in slim computer technology.