Acer DirectX 11 notebook coming soon

Acer soon will be bringing its gaming notebook, Aspire 8942G-728G1280TWN, equipped with Core i7-720QM, 8GB of DDR3 memory, two 640GB HDD and Blu-ray to boot. It sports 18.4-inch with 1980×1080 LED display and comes with AMD’s Mobile Radeon HD5850 with 1GB of GDDR5.

This would be the first notebook with DirectX 11 graphics. Ports include 4 USB 2.0 ports, 802.11 abgn, Bluetooth, ExpressCard, HDMI, 5-in-1 card reader and a host of other goodies. It weighs 4.6 kg. Also its there with 8-cell battery.

Nothing is yet known about its pricing and availability.

Jolicloud enters Pre-Beta Version

Jolicloud’s Pre-Beta for the netbook OS has been made public officially. The Jolicloud Pre-Beta brings in much awaited feature: GMA 500 Support. Other goodies include Express Installer for providing intuitive way of installing it from Windows itself; better boot up speed and video management, updated Linux kernel and updated GUI. To learn all about Jolicloud,

Read our Jolicloud OS review

HP ProBook 5310m packs CULV chip – shipping in Europe

This HP new netbook may give you a glimpse of business netbook, but it comes with a CULV chip that is becoming more and more common in the netbooks and ultra-portables these days. However, that has not stopped HP in using those processors in this sleek netbook with aluminium chassis touting a pretty chicklet keyboard.

There are several variants for 5310m. You can go for Celeron SU2300 dual-core or Core 2 Duo SP9300 CULV processor. The RAM capacity ranges from 1GB of memory (SU2300) and 160GB of storage to 4GB of memory (SP9300) and 320GB of storage. The SP9300 model has many other goodies including 3G connectivity. The entry level version comes with FreeDOS and is listed over €500, while for around €1000, you get high end model that comes with SP9300 processor.

Where most CULV notebooks carry a glare/glossy screen, the ProBook 5310m is surely an exception on that list. Several SKUs of HP’s 13-inch ProBook 5310m have already started shipping in Europe.

ASUS N20 Netbook Launched

ASUS has launched N20 netbook which is equipped with a 12.1-inch display and sports a full laptop-size keyboard. However, it weighs 1.8kg is pretty heavy for a netbook. It has some interesting goodies like HDMI-port and 12 hours of battery life, thanks to EMU (Energy Processing Unit).

ASUS claims that the EMU preserves battery life by 35%. No details about its price are out at this moment.