Amazon has started taking orders for the MSI Wind U160. The netbook is available in black or brown and costs $380. It runs Windows 7 Starter Edition.The MSI Wind U160 has more or less the same specs as the Asus Eee PC 1005PE. It is powered by a 1.66GHz Intel Atom N450 processor with GMA [...]
Continue Reading...Apple may think differently, but adding Flash to a NVIDIA Tegra 2 based tablet is probably the smartest way of making it a whole lot more useful than the iPad. The NVIDIA Tegra 2 platform combines a low power Atom processor with high performance NVIDIA graphics. The result is that you are able to watch [...]
Continue Reading...iiView has released a 10.2 inch tablet called Vpad. The device, unfortunately, sports some pretty old internals. While the rest of the world has moved on to Atom N450, the iiView Vpad still sports an Intel Atom N270 processor. Other specs are pretty regular too. It comes with 1GB of RAM and a 160GB hard [...]
Continue Reading...There are different kinds of touchscreens. While some touchscreens accept stylus input others are meant for tapping with your finger. Very few touchscreens available at the moment accept both finger and stylus inputs. Now French display maker Stantum has released a multitouch display that can accept both finger and stylus inputs. If that is not [...]
Continue Reading...HP has updated its Envy 13 and Envy 15 laptops and for good reason. These machines were introduced years ago and needed some refreshing badly. The HP Envy 15 now has a starting price of $1,299.99 (down from $1,699.99). It has a 2.4GHz Core i5-520M processor,4GB of DDR3 RAM and 1GB ATI Mobility Radeon HD [...]
Continue Reading...MSI has announced four new notebooks in the C-series. These machines feature processors ranging from dual-core Pentium to Core i5. The most expensive among the four models is the CR620-031US. It is powered by a Core i5 processor and starts at $729. The Core i3 models CR620-033US and CR620-030US start at $699 and $679 respectively. [...]
Continue Reading...The Samsung R530 notebook is now available in the US. It sports a 15.6 inch display with 1366 x 768 pixels. The Samsung R530 is powered by a 2.2GHz Core 2 Duo processor with 4GB of RAM and a 320GB hard drive. The graphics option is the Intel Integrated GMA 4500 MHD. The notebook ships [...]
Continue Reading...The Asus Eee PC 1001P is one of the latest Eee PC models from Asus. It sports a 10.1 inch display with 1024 x 600 pixels. The Eee PC 1001P is powered by an Intel Atom N450 processor with 1GB of RAM and a 160GB hard drive and runs Windows 7 Starter Edition. Unlike the [...]
Continue Reading...Google will not officially release its Chrome OS until later this year, but since the OS is open source anybody can work on the code and develop a pre-release version which can be installed and run on your PC. Developer Hexxeh has now released a version of the Chromium OS (Chromium is the open source [...]
Continue Reading...The Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3 isn’t probably the most exciting of Lenovo’s recent offerings. The company also introduced a smartbook, a convertible tablet and a laptop with a removable display at CES this year. Nevertheless, you can’t overlook the IdeaPad S10-3. It is cheap, ultraportable and fully functional. There are some minor drawbacks, but they are [...]
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