Prices of Intel Atom D510 and Atom D410 Nettop Processors declared – NetTops to get expensive

Prices of PineTrail nettop processors, the D510 and D410, have been declared. Atom 330′s successor, D510 is for sale for a price tag of $63 making it $20 costlier than the former. The single-core Atom 230 will be replaced by single-core Atom D41,which will sell for $43 ($14 more than the current Atom 230). Both of the new processors run at 1.66GHz clock speed. The only difference lies in their cache: 1MB on D510 and 512kb on D410.

This means that the future nettops, although will be beefier in terms of specs, but will also make you shell out more money.

AMD-based Acer laptops pose a tough competition for netbooks – PEOPLE BUY NETBOOKS BECAUSE THEY CANNOT AFFORD LAPTOPS?

Acer is selling its AMD-base laptops for mere $279, which are giving tough competition to the netbooks, most of which come equipped with the Intel’s Atom processor.

According to Fudzilla, there is no use in buying a netbook with an 10-inch screen, an Intel Atom processor, no optical drive and Windows XP that weighs about two pounds. Why? Because when you have a better option of getting a laptop with an 15.6-inch screen, a higher-performance AMD or Intel processor, an optical drive and Windows Vista that weights about six pounds.

Here are the specifications of the 15.6-inch laptop:

AMD Athlon TF-20 64 processor, 15.6-inch WXGA display, 2GB DDR2 memory, DVD-RW drive, 160GB hard disk drive, ATI Radeon Xpress 1200 graphics, 802.11b/g wireless, 10/100 Ethernet LAN, and Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic Edition.

Commentary: Such thinking is COMPLETELY RUBBISH. People do not buy netbooks just because they cannot afford laptops. They buy it because they are excellent traveling companions. I love my netbook as it is smaller and weigh must less than my heavy and bulky notebook.

Eee PC 900 for $170 – beat that!

If you always wanted to have a small computer with you, but did not want to cough up $400+ for a netbook, then Newegg has something that will interest you surely. For just for $169.99, they are giving away an EEE 900, which is pretty decent EEE PC. You don’t even need to pay for its shipping costs!

EEE 900 Specs:-

• 8.9-inch LED-backlit LCD
• Intel Celeron-M 900MHz processor
• 512MB RAM
• 4GB SSD
• Linux OS
• SD card slot
• 4-cell battery

Do note that you can always upgrade to XP if you wish to. Kamal did on his EEE 701 and has been happy since then.

Foma powered Eee PC 1003HAG launching soon in Japan

Asus will start selling from 16th May, a new Eee PC, the 1003HAG, in Japan. The model features:

• a 3G WAN Module to be used with NTT DoCoMo Data network
• 160 GB HDD
• 1GB RAM
• Intel Atom N280 processor
• Wifi
• Webcam, and other usual Eee PC features

However it comes with a price tag of 550€, which is quite expensive price for a netbook.

Asus Eee PC 1002H now in available Australia

The new Asus Eee PC 1002H netbook is now in stores in Australia. The 10-inch widescreen model is similar to the 1002HA. However, it features a chiclet keyboard and an Intel Atom N280 processor. Thus, supporting a battery life of about 4 to 6 hours. It is coming with a price tag of 769 – 879 AUD.

Kamal reviewed the EEE 1000HE a couple of weeks back and he was not so much pleased with the chiclet keyboard. I’m yet to try one of these though.