OCZ's Neutrino Netbook to Come as a DIY System

People attending OCZ's booth at this year’s CeBIT show in Hanover, Germany were able to set their eyes on the company's first Atom-based netbook, dubbed Neutrino. The system comes in a 10-inch form factor and is built on the familiar Intel Atom platform that is featured across most netbooks currently available on the market. However, OCZ's approach to this market segment has been somewhat different as the company decided to allow its users to fully configure the netbook, choosing from a number of available options.

 

Apparently, the OCZ Neutrino netbook is yet another do-it-yourself portable computer system from OCZ. The company will provide its users with two models of the 10-inch machine, one that will be targeted at the DIY modding enthusiasts and another pre-configured model that packs a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 processor, 2GB of RAM memory, WiFi, 1.3MP webcamera and a solid state drive that can provide a storage capacity of up to 256GB or a whopping 500GB, in the form of a traditional hard drive.

 

One could say that, with the Neutrino, OCZ has brought netbooks to a new, enthusiast market segment, enabling users to configure their own small-sized portable systems as they see fit. We are not exactly sure how this suits Intel, especially given their expressed guidelines for a netbook, but the Neutrino has some market potential, compared to many of its competitors.

 

We are still to be provided with details regarding the netbook's pricing, but given that OCZ will be trying to ship the Neutrino as a barebone system with no Windows XP operating system, the netbook could land on the market sweet spot. Also, thanks to the Neutrino's configurable hardware, OCZ will take advantage of a niche in the netbook market, which continues to grow, despite the high number of players releasing their own designs.