Medion Akoya Mini E1217 on sale in Europe – obsolete specs

Medion, a reputed brand in Europe, has unveiled a new netbook, Akoya Mini E1217. This new Medion Akoya has a 10.1-inch display, Intel Atom N270 processor, 160GB HDD and 1GB RAM. It ships with Window 7 starter. It has WiFi b/g/n and bluetooth radios too.

Priced at 329€, this is clearly a sleek netbook with outdated specs. On one hand, companies are unleashing netbooks that run a N280/Z540/Z550 processors; have 250GB HDDs and more and on other hands, we have Medion, who have the atrocity to release N270 netbooks in the Q4 2009 and that too pricey!

Convertible 3G netbook tablet – made in China for just $370

A Shanzhai netbook manufacture has come up with a $370 convertible tablet netbook. Even though Windows 7 has been released, some manufacture has the atrocity to release netbook with Windows XP. It has a 10.1-inch display.

Other Specs:

• Atom N270
• Intel 945GSE chipset
• 1GB RAM
• 160GB HDD
• BT, webcam
• BUILT in 3G

Shanzhai claims that it has 1366×768 display, but we think that it is no more than 1024×600.

CULV or Intel Atom processor: A Comparison

From the past couple months, we have seen an incredible rise in the usage of the CULV processors in the notebooks, especially the ultra-slim ones from MSI.(MSI X400, MSI X610, HP DM3, Wind U120 and so on)

CULV processors are more powerful than the Intel Atom processors even at lower clock frequencies. However, there is one thing that has stopped most of the manufactures NOT to use it in their netbooks: PRICE.

I feel acutely that once Intel and AMD, reduce the prices of the CULV processors a bit, most of the netbook manufactures will opt for equipping their netbooks with these more powerful CULV processors instead of Intel Atom CPUs.

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