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

Tigris based notebook exposed by MSI – MSI CR610

MSIhas announced a classic notebook, the CR610. As based on AMD’s Tigris platform, it features both AMD’s Athlon II dual-core CPU and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 graphics, which compliments to the RS880M chipset. CR610 is an 16-incher, 16:9 1366×768 display, measures 374x247x18-30mm and 2.48kg is the weight along with battery. Also, it features upto 4GB of DDR2 667/800 memory in two DDR2 SO-DIMM slots. Other specs include DVD Super-Multi optical drive, 250, 320 or 500GB 2.5-inch SATA drive, 802.11b/g/n WiFi, 1.3MP webcam, eSATA and D-Sub and HDMI outputs, Ethernet, 4-in-1 card reader and packs 6-cell battery.

The OS is Window 7, with which it will ship. No word regarding, When and For How much.

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 to feature ATi Radeon HD 4670 GPU!

Acer Ferrari One (quick look) is a netbook with a lot of muscle power inside. Its XGP port caught a lot of attention when it is first unveiled. According to CNET, the XGP interface can be used to plug-in a dock that has the ATi Mobility Radeon HD 4670 GPU which has the capability of pushing a mighty 2048×1536 pixels on its external display. The dock also adds 6 USB 2.0 ports.

So, if you think that its dual-core chip along with its internal ATi GPU was not enough, you can further have the boost by just plugging in an external GPU, which the Acer calls, DynaVivid Graphics Dock. This dock weighs 650gm and will be available for $199 in the month of November.

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.