ASRock outs Socket 939 785G board

ASRock released a brand new 939 board based on AMD’s 785G chipset. The board have 6 USB 2.0 ports, Ethernet, 4 DDR slots, 1 PCIe x16, 2x PCI slots, 7.1 audio, 5 SATA II connectors and even serial and parallel ports. It also features HDMI, DVI and VGA connectors.
It is priced just over €55.

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.

Menq EasyPC E790 Smartbook – just for $80

EasyPC E790 from Menq is a small tiny smartbook that could be retailing for as-low-as $80 provided folks at Menq sort out their sales channels.

Talking about its features, it has ARM9 processor, a 7-inch 800 x 480 display and runs Windows CE 5.0 as OS. Ports include: audio jacks, SD Card reader, 3 USB 2.0 ports and Ethernet. It even features a removable battery. Soon, it will be available with Android. Though it is a bit slow, but at $80 we are not complaining!

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Stainless Steel Aerodynamic netbook by Kivu Technology

Kivu Technology Co. has made a brave move by rolling out a new netbook, “G-Five KTNO2” which uses its Aerodynamics shape to let the consumers not feel much of its weight. Though the weight is 1.26 kg but you will feel holding just 0.90 kg while you walk with it. Designed to catch eyes and resembling like the wing of an aircraft, it has a brushed stainless steel chassis to give it a classic feel.

It features Intel Atom Processor that runs @ 1.6 GHz, 10.2-inch dispaly @ 1024 x 600 LCD display, 1 GB RAM, 160 GB hard disk, 2 USB 2.0 ports, 3G SIM slot, card reader, LAN, Bluetooth and 1.3MP webcam. Nothing is known about its pricing.

Zotac Mag nettop has dual-core Atom + ION chipset

Zotac has announced a nettop called Mag, which is a pretty small nettop. It will be made available in two versions. One single core: Atom 230 and other dual core: Atom 330.

Both versions are otherwise identical: 2GB RAM, 160GB HDD, NVidia’s 9400M ION chipset, LAN, WiFi (b/g/n), eSATA port, 4-in-1 card reader, 6 USB 2.0 ports, HDMI out and D-Sub out. The price of dual core version is expected to be around €249. Price of single core version is not yet known, but will inevitably be cheaper than the former.

Dual core version will hit the shelves in the month of November, whereas the Single core version will make its appearance sometime after it.

SONY VAIO X quick analysis on basis of pictures – direct from Japan’s CEATEC 2009

It is not an unknown fact that SONY has done a great job with the extremely elegant-looking Sony Vaio X. When one looks at it, he/she immediately gets the impression of how sleek this netbook/mini-notebook is. Apart from its nicely designed keyboard, it has a great touchpad with two left and right click buttons too that do not require much effort to register clicks.

Thanks to the great engineers at SONY, they did not go for the flaps to make it look streamlined (like the case in ASUS EEE 1008HA). The two USB 2.0 ports are fully exposed to the user. Also present is a the Kensington lock, power port and earphone jack.

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SONY VAIO Pocket Style PC “P series” review

Few months back, we did the unboxing of the VAIO P. However, since then, we did not ever published its full review. We have criticized VAIO P heavily (see THIS), but we need to understand one fact that is VAIO P is a crop of its own.

Anyway, been using VAIO P from past few months, I am now fully aware of its pros and cons. Now, how is the immediate out of box experience. To be honest, you immediately feel its slowness as soon as you take it out of the box. It took it 30 minutes to take me to the desktop! Then, even after the desktop was loaded, it was very slow.

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ASUS Eee BOX EB1501 – yet another dual core Atom nettop

Here is another nettop with dual core Atom processor: ASUS Eee BOX EB1501. Specs:

• dual-core Intel Atom 330 processor
• ION chipset (GeForce 9400M)
• Windows 7 Home Premium
• slot-in DVD burner
• 250GB hard disk
• 2GB RAM
• WiFi (b/g/n)
• 6 USB 2.0 ports
• HDMI and VGA ports
• one eSATA port

We expect it to be released after Windows 7 since it sports Windows 7 Home Premium edition. Price: 350-399 Euros

NES Versa Pro J – Super thin and light netbook

Folks at Akhihabara have got hold of a very light and thin netbook, NES Versa Pro J and they have posted some tasty pictures of it. It is just 15.8mm thin and weighs mere 752g. It is equipped with 64GB SSD, WiFi b/g, and you get 3 USB 2.0 ports. Battery life is around 4.5 hours. It comes with Intel Atom Z540 processor that runs at 1.86GHz. This is the same processor that is also available in some higher end Sony VAIO P models.

It is clear from the pictures that it uses trackpoint instead of trackpad. This helps it to maintain a shorter profile as compared to other netbooks

Netbook with Mac OS X! – The MiniBook

According to Apple, netbooks may be ‘crap’, but not for the millions of netbook lovers around the world! Here is the statement by Apple’s chief,

When I look at netbooks, I see cracked keyboards, terrible software, junky hardware, very small screens. It’s just not a good consumer experience and not something we would put the Mac brand on. It’s a segment we would not choose to play in.

A Russian company called RussianMac is now offering a netbook with OS X pre-installed! The netbooks looks exactly the same like ASUS EEE 1000H and they are calling it a “MiniBook”.

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