AMD-powered Asus EeeTop PC ET2010AGT launched

All the Asus EeeTops have been Atom-powered, until now. Meet the Asus EeeTop PC ET2010AGT that sports the AMD Athlon X2 250u 1.6GHz, AMD RX780 chipset, ATI Mobility Radeon HD5470 with 512MB dedicated, and 4GB of RAM. If you are not down with that, you can also add the super sleek 20-inch multi-touch screen with 1400×900 resolution to the package.

Asus is also throwing-in a comfy keyboard and USB mouse to complete the whole package. Sadly, Asus does not have any plans to bring this beauty to US anytime soon. Available only in France for about 599 Euros

MSI Wind U230/Wind 12 appears on MSI Website

A new MSI Wind model, the Wind12, also known as, the Wind U230 has been spotted which is equipped with new AMD Athlon Neo X2 dual-core processor aka AMD Yukon MV40 along with ATI Radeon HD 3200 integrated graphics. It runs Windows 7 Home Premium as OS.

• 12.1-inch display
• 1366 x 768 resolution
• AMD RS780MN + SB710
• upto 320GB hard disk
• 4GB RAM
• VGA and HDMI ports
• Ethernet
• 3 USB 2.0 ports
• Wi-Fi b/g

It comes with 3-cell battery with 6-cell battery as option.

[MSI WIND U230 official webpage]

Dell Zino HD – Two models and Specs noticed – Inspiron 300 and Inspiron 400

DellZinoHD.com has noticed specs for the Dell Zino HD. Earlier, it was not made clear by Dell that what was inside the Zino HD apart from having “desktop parts” and ports on the back.

Through support manuals on Dell’s site, the specs came into noticed. There are going to be two Zino HD models: The Inspiron 300 and Inspiron 400. Inspiron 300 is a low end model with no ION chipset. Instead, it comes with the vanilla Intel GMA graphics and an Intel Atom processor. It has 1GB RAM, 4-in-1 Card reader, 3.5-inch SATA HDD that is used the desktops. It also features a DVD burner. there is no eSATA port.

Inspiron 400 has beefier specs. It comes with the powerful AMD Athlon (or Athlon X2 processor). It has 8GB RAM (!), Blu-ray drive or DVD burner, WiFi (b/g/n), HDMI, VGA, Gigabit Ethernet. Unlike Inspiron 300, it has 2 eSATA ports. There is also an option for ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4330 graphic chipset.

It weighs 2.0kg

Acer Ferrari One quick review

Apart from sporting stunning and sleek looks, Acer Ferrari One netbook is based on AMD’s Congo platform. Some people may regard it as ultrathin notebook, but we prefer to call it a netbook with lots of muscle-power.

Its AMD Athlon X2 L310 processor works at 1.2GHz clock speed and features 1MB of L2 cache. It has Radeon HD 3200 integrated graphics which comes with up to 2048MB of HyperMemory or to be precise it has 256+128MB of dedicated memory and up to 1663MB of shared system memory. The netbook/notebook is equipped with 2GB of DDR2 667/800 RAM ( upgradable upto 4GB as it has two SO-DIMM slots). This is unlike most of the netbooks that can have only upto 2GB RAM and sport only one SO-DIMM slot.

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MSI Wind Top AE2010 launched in US – This Nettop is on steroids!

MSI Wind Top AE2010, the all-in-one nettop has now become official which was seen in the France recently. This is not the usual nettop that you come across everyday. Why? Instead of an Atom processor, this comes with an AMD Athlon X2 Dual Core processor and ATi Radeon HD 3200 graphic card! Talk about some serious performance from this nettop.

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MSI Wind U210 – 12-inch netbook using AMD Neo processor

MSI is soon going to release MSI Wind U210 in Europe. Unlike most of the netbooks, this one comes with an AMD NEO processor which is less power frugal than the Intel Atom CPUs. Here are its full specifications:

• 12.1-inch display
• 1366 x 768 resolution
• AMD Athlon Neo MV-40 processor
• ATI Mobility Radeon X1250 Graphics
• 1 GB RAM (upto 2GB supported)
• 160 / 250 GB HDD
• Wi-Fi (b/g/n) and Bluetooth
• LAN
• Windows XP Home or Windows Vista Home Premium
• 6-cell battery
• 1.4 kg weight

The Windows XP version will retail at around 399 euros and the Windows Vista version will cost you 449 euros.

We still think that the netbooks with more than 10-inches should not be considered as ‘netbooks’ as they are not as easy to carry around. Also, if you are planning to carry such a big device, why not get a bigger laptop then? After all, the main concept of netbook is to be as portable as possible, but manufactures these days are bent upon releasing netbooks with bigger and bulkier casing.