14 DAY TRIAL // It seems that the upcoming price war in China is not the only thing on ASUS' mind these days. While part of its attention is focused on lowering the prices of its entry-level and mid-range motherboards, it is also making strides on the nettop/AiO front.
In fact, it seems that the next move the company plans to make in this field will include the introduction of no less than five new devices in the EeeTop PC product family. These systems are known as the ET2010P, ET2010PN, ET2010PNT, ET2010AG and ET2010AGT. Out of them, three are powered by Intel central processing units, whereas the remaining two rely on AMD horsepower.
The two systems based on AMD chips are the ET2010AG and ET2010AGT. These run on the AMD Athlon X2 250u dual-core central processing unit and have memory capacities of 2GB and 4GB, respectively. They also feature a 7,200RPM hard drive of 500GB storage, a DVD burner, Gigabit Ethernet, WiFi, a 1.3-megapixel webcam, a multi-card reader and, last but not least, a Radeon HD 5470 512MB graphics card.
The three systems that use Intel processors are the ET2010P, ET2010PN and ET2010PNT. The ET2010P is powered by an Intel Atom D410 CPU, with a clock of 1.66 GHz, and boasts 2GB RAM, the GMA 3150 integrated graphics and a hard disk drive with a storage capacity of 320GB. It also has a DVD writer, a 1.3-megapixel webcam, 802.11 b/g/n WiFi and Gigabit Ethernet. The ET2010PN and ET2010PNT have partially similar specs, but run on the more powerful dual-core Atom D510 CPU (1.66Ghz), have 2GB DDR3, 320GB and 500GB storage, respectively, and the new ION graphics from NVIDIA (GT218).
Unfortunately, there is still no word on the laptops' retail dates or the prices that they will carry once they come out.