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Intel to Spread the Classmate PC Across US, European Markets

Intel is reported to introduce its educational Classmate PC sub-notebook on the U.S. and European retail markets during the next weeks. The ultra-mobile notebook is one of the direct competitors of the OLPC XO sub-notebook and is especially designed for the emerging and developing markets worldwide.According to Lila ...

20 March 2008
05:21 GMT

Nvidia's GeForce 9800 GX2 is Now Available

The non-disclosure agreement regarding Nvidia's GeForce 9800 GX2 graphics card has ended, and the first graphics cards with the new GPU have started to emerge. Palit is one of the first graphics card manufacturers to announce its 9800 GX2-based product, that comes with a bonus: free game server hosting for the f...

18 March 2008
09:41 GMT

Tiny Eee PC Gets Carbon Fiber Touch

Asustek's tiny Eee PC is one of the best-selling ultra-mobile PCs in the world. In fact, it sold so well, that people "wearing" the Eee can be seen almost everywhere. However, when fashion is becoming a standard, there's nothing much special left in having one of the units. That's why custom-made Eee ...

17 March 2008
07:35 GMT

Asustek Unveils Desktop PC Model

Asustek has been rumored to work on a desktop computer since January, but the upcoming Eee PC 900 got all the customers' attention. However, the new desktop system from the Taiwanese PC manufacturer can be regarded as the desktop alternative to the Eee. The EP20 desktop computer is officially called the "Digital...

15 March 2008
05:21 GMT

Asustek: Two Thirds Of the Eee PCs Will Ship With Windows

Taiwanese PC vendor Asustek plans to release two thirds of their Eee PC production, which will come with a pre-installed version of Windows XP. The decision has been made after the incredible success of the Windows XP version of the tiny Eee.The previous version of the Eee PC used to come with a 7-inch screen and a l...

14 March 2008
05:15 GMT

Asustek Introduces Computer Display With Video-Conferencing Features

Taiwanese PC vendor Asustek has just announced its newest LCD computer display with built-in, adjustable webcam. The 24-inch MK241H model comes with MIC-Array device, stereo speakers and an earphone jack, to go along with its full-1080p high-definition capabilities.The LCD monitor is rigged with videoconferencing cap...

13 March 2008
09:49 GMT

Asustek's P5E64 WS Evolution: Intel's X48 PCI-Express Lanes Don't Add Up

Intel's X48 chipsets are starting to pop out in more and more motherboard configurations, as we have previously reported during the CeBIT show. Asustek has also paper-introduced another X48 offering in its WS series of motherboards, namely the "Evolution". The new motherboard comes with four PCI-Express x16 slot...

12 March 2008
03:55 GMT

Asustek Details Upon Eee PCs Roadmap

The advent of a larger-screen, more powerful Eee PC in the 900 series is hardly news, as Asustek announced it before the CeBIT show in Hanover, Germany. However, the company decided that it's time it release more details about what proved to be one of the best sold products in its offering.The 9-inch Eee PC 900 ...

11 March 2008
11:16 GMT

Asustek's Mouse can Double as Storage Device, Gets Ruined By Form-Factor

Taiwanese PC vendor Asustek has released an extremely interesting proof-of-concept device, that combines a portable wireless mouse with flash storage. Unlike other manufacturers that are re-inventing the wheel, when it comes to novelty in terms of mice, Asustek's idea might have paid off if it were functional.Th...

10 March 2008
13:00 GMT

MSI Prepares Eee PC Killer, Pushes 10-Inchers as Industry Standard

Notebook manufacturer Micro-Star International has entered the UMPC race for real with its upcoming MSI Wind. The sub-notebook comes with a 10-inch display and has been premiered at this year's CeBIT expo.MSI's laptop is a stylish, 10-inch ultra-portable notebook that is expected to pose some serious proble...

10 March 2008
10:27 GMT

The New 9-Inch Eee PC Will Come With Extra Features, Atom Processor

Asustek has told media about the new 9-inch offering right before the CeBIT event. Despite the fact that company representatives allowed the press to fiddle with the small notebook, they did not allow anyone to turn on the exhibits present at the event, in order to furthermore fuel the rumors regarding the device...

10 March 2008
09:54 GMT

CeBIT 2008: Asus' Extreme Motherboards Take the Stage

Taiwanese motherboard manufacturer has unleashed its top-tier motherboard offerings during the CeBIT expo, and showcased an impressive motherboard built in collaboration with Republic of Gamers, as well as a sample of the DeLuxe P5Q3 Wi-Fi-based offering.The Striker II Extreme motherboard from Asustek is a whole new ...

10 March 2008
06:54 GMT

Asustek's Eee PC Gets Official With Microsoft's Windows XP

Eee computers have been running Windows XP for quite some time now, thanks to the ultra-mobile PC enthusiasts that would shape the little device to suit their needs. Asustek decided that it was high time for the secret relationship between the machine and Microsoft's OS to go official and introduced its Windows ...

7 March 2008
09:17 GMT

CeBIT 2008: Hands on With the Eee PC from Asus

It's no secret that Asus has really struck gold when it came up with the Eee PC, a small, ultra-portable computing system that's selling like hot cakes, although the processing power it provides isn't exactly amazing. However, the form factor and the other functions this thing can provide seem to have ...

7 March 2008
04:32 GMT

ECS Unveils the 11-Inch Eee PC 900 Killer

The recently announced Asustek Eee PC 900 with its 8.9-inch monitor was extremely good news for the ultra-mobile enthusiasts. Expected to arrive during the second quarter of 2008, the Eee PC 900 may be good, but but ECS' offering is everything an UMPC enthusiast might ever need.The Eee PC is still writing the ma...

7 March 2008
02:35 GMT

Asustek, T-Mobile to Offer Internet Access for the Eee PC

Asustek has announced a strategic partnership with mobile telephony provider T-Mobile that will result in the release on the market of attractive all-in-one packages comprised of ASUS notebooks and high-speed mobile technology with a convenient price tag.The new partnership between the two companies is alleged to cre...

6 March 2008
10:40 GMT

CeBIT 2008: Asus Offers 22-Inch VW223B LCD Monitor With DisplayLink Technology

Assus has just unveiled its newest LCD offering during this year's CeBIT Expo. The 22-incher comes with DisplayLink's technology that allows users to run multiple monitor setups from a USB device.The VW223B will allow you to connect up to six other monitors at once from the main monitor's panel, withou...

5 March 2008
09:40 GMT

CeBIT 2008: Asustek's Eee PC, Second Version: 8.9-Inch Screen and Memory Boost

Asustek's Eee PC enthusiasts can say that the wait is nearly over, as the PC vendor has just unveiled a new version of the sub-notebook, the Eee PC 900. The new version has been announced back in January during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The highly-anticipated update will offer a 9-inch display,...

4 March 2008
07:18 GMT

CeBIT 2008: Asus Unveils Luxury Lamborghini VX3 Notebook

Asustek has unveiled a compact version of its highest-end Lamborghini notebook, one of the most expensive computing system currently available for the public. The sportscar-style PC has undergone a significant face-lift, in order to make it more compact while preserving the design of the famous Italian sports car bra...

4 March 2008
06:27 GMT

Asustek: Tiny Eee Gets Accessories Backup

The tiny Eee PC introduced back in October last year has proven to be a true gold mine for the Trawanese PC manufacturer. A new version of the Eee, the 900 is about to kick in, but until then, you might want to extend the functionality of your current sub-notebook with some extras. The new accessories delivered by As...

4 March 2008
04:30 GMT

CeBit 2008: Asus Unveils New Line of 5-, 7- and 9-inch Ultra-Mobile PCs

Asustek has just announced a new line of ultra-mobile PCs to be unveiled during this year's CeBIT show. The new products are tailored to answer the mobile computing needs of any user and include more than an average laptop can offer. The company has introduced the ASUS R50 ultra slim and light PC, world's s...

3 March 2008
06:36 GMT

Asus to Introduce Xonar DX Enthusiast Audio 7.1 Sound Card

The professional sound industry has been under the domination of Creative for quite a while now. Other soundcard manufacturers would only dare to show up with more modest - mid-range at most - offerings. Everything was OK if you had to choose between more on-board soundcard chips, but if you needed some big guns, you...

1 March 2008
07:09 GMT

Dell to Shovel New Low-Cost Mobile Computers

System builder Dell plans on introducing some more low-cost offerings on the Asian market during this year. The announcement was made by a company executive during yesterday's meeting."We've been pretty much a leader in the mid- and high-end price bands. We haven't played as strongly in the lower price...

1 March 2008
05:57 GMT

Sungjut TangoX Nano UMPC, Built on Via's NanoBook Platform: Eee PC Checkmate?

Eee PC lovers might find an interesting companion in Sungjut's latest ultra mobile PC, called the TangoX Nano. Built on Via's NanoBook core platform, the sub-notebook only measures 230 x 171 x 29.4 millimeters and weighs 0.97 kilograms. The tiny UMPC came from Asia and things might get a little gloomy for A...

28 February 2008
08:50 GMT

Asus Goes For Creative's Neck, Gears Up for Insane HTPC Sound Cards

Taiwanese PC vendor Asustek has just announced a new soundcard offering that promises to be more than even audio specialist Creative can carry. This might be the end of Creative's domination on the professional audio market, after long years it has ruled it with its top soundcard offerings.The upcoming Asus Xona...

28 February 2008
06:29 GMT

Asustek Unveils Limited Edition Triton 79 Amazing CPU Cooler

Asustek is not much of a cooling and casing solution fan, and that is why you would rarely learn about this kind of hardware. However, when it decides to launch such products, you should expect impressive designs with state-of-the-art functionality. That's the case with its latest invention, the Triton 79 Amazin...

27 February 2008
10:33 GMT

Sony Starts Worrying as the Eee PC Gains Popularity

The tiny ultra-mobile computer from Asustek looks more of a toy than of a notebook computer, but this is no surprise, since the main targets of the sub-notebook are children. However, the "pseudo-computer" has hijacked the whole industry and set a new trend on the mobile computing market. The Eee PC had millions of u...

27 February 2008
04:14 GMT

Asus Released Skulltrail Motherboard, Lacks SLI

Asus has just released its Z7S WS workstation motherboard that comes with two LGA 771 processor sockets. The new motherboard is the base of Intel's recently announced Skulltrail enthusiast platform.Apart from the two LGA 771 sockets tailored for the latest quad-core chips from Intel, the motherboard packs the la...

26 February 2008
09:24 GMT

Asus to Unveil New HD-Ready LCD Monitor Suite

Taiwanese PC manufacturer Asustek is currently working on a new series of LCD monitors featuring high-definition capabilities. The lowest monitor in the series will feature a 19-inch display, while the largest one is currently set for 24-inch, but the heavy artillery is yet to come. The first model in the High-Defini...

21 February 2008
09:19 GMT

Asustek Gets Sempron-Hungry, Cooks New Low-Cost Computer

Taiwanese PC manufacturer and vendor Asustek is reported to have placed a significant order of low-end Sempron processors from AMD. The undisclosed amount of Advanced Micro Devices' chips could be the starting point for a new product aimed at the entry-level market.Industry sources are already hinting that the P...

21 February 2008
05:32 GMT

Asus Nova P22, the Mac Mini Born in the Wrong Family

Asustek is a well-known company when it comes to notebook systems or to computer hardware, but somehow, the success failed to set in its desktop PC offerings. Well, things are about to change with the advent of the small-form factor Nova P22.The Asus Nova P22 model is a little bulkier than the Apple Mac Mini model, b...

20 February 2008
11:23 GMT

Compaq 2133: HP's Leaked Ultra Mobile PC

Remember the rumors about an ultra-mobile personal computer from Hewlett-Packard? It seems that the device is as real as possible and will come with some nifty features that will make it yet another worthy MacBook Air killer - supposing it will finally come out on the market.The mystery notebook got itself a name - i...

20 February 2008
06:04 GMT

HP Is Readying Its Own Ultra-Mobile PC

Rumor has it that HP is secretly cooking a new product to join its mobile family. However, it will be far from what HP got its customers used to: no superior computing power and no big display. On the contrary, the new device will be more of an ultra-mobile computer than a notebook, and chances are that it will strik...

19 February 2008
03:41 GMT

CloudBook Gets Availability Dates

Everex's CloudBook PC seems to have arrived on the market already, but it's not to be found if you're not that important to get a sample. The only online shop that is currently selling the green sub-notebook is ZaReason, that had them in stock since Friday morning."ZaReason sent a van over the other da...

18 February 2008
04:40 GMT

Everex's CloudBook UMPC Is Not Ready for the Market

The long-awaited ultra-mobile computer from Everex, the Cloudbook, has finally arrived on the market. The sub-notebook only was delayed once, although I, for one, would have expected to be postponed yet again. However, the first hands-on reports confirmed my doubts.It seems that the Everex CloudbBook PC was pushed o...

16 February 2008
04:26 GMT

Acer Will Focus on Selling Low-Cost Notebooks

World's number 3 computer vendor, the Taiwanese company Acer will start selling low-cost notebooks later this year. The company's shift from the mid-range market to the low-end segment is motivated by the continuous demand in affordable notebooks. Other PC vendors, such as Asustek for instance, have sold mi...

13 February 2008
06:01 GMT

Nvidia to List Specifications of GeForce 9M Series

Graphics card manufacturer has listed the complete specifications of the upcoming GeForce 9500M GS and GeForce 9300M G mainstream discrete video cards for notebooks. Despite the fact that the company has not officially announced the next-generation mobile graphics chips, its website lists all the necessary details re...

13 February 2008
04:09 GMT

Asustek Gears Up for Launching Its U2E Notebook PC Next Week

Taiwanese notebook PC vendor Asustek Computer has already slated its upcoming 1.25 kilogram, battery-friendly U2E notebook for the next week's launch in Taipei. The new laptop will sport sexy leather wrapped exteriors, adorned by tasteful metal accents.The U2E notebook is a member of the Stylebook family that wa...

12 February 2008
08:50 GMT

The Asustek Eee Comes With Factory-Default Hacking Vulnerabilities

Some people try to match their newly-purchased computer to their furniture, or, if it is a portable one, to their pieces of jewelery. Some other would rush an install their favorite pieces of software, perform their visual tweaks and set it up for long hours of work. There is yet another category of buyers that remin...

9 February 2008
06:34 GMT

Dell Hints on Eight-Inch Ultra-Mobile PC

PC manufacturer Dell has hinted its customers that it may release an eight-inch screen sub-notebook to compete on the ultra-mobile computer market. The company has recently denied the fact that it intends to buy mobile telephony company Motorola in order to "hijack" it on the smart phone market, rather than taking an...

8 February 2008
11:44 GMT

Colorful and Bigger Everex UMPC's Are in the Works

The guys at Everex failed in launching the $399 sub-notebook on time, partly because they had to perform additional tweaks to the Linux interface and partly because the Chinese New Year's Eve rushed uninvited and shut the factories down for a week.The "regular" CloudBook ultra-mobile PCs will start shipping on F...

8 February 2008
08:26 GMT

New Asus Eee PC Killer Spotted In the Wild: the Pioneer DreamBook Light IL1

If you thought that the ultra-mobile PC market could not be any crowded than it is being now, you were wrong. Eee PC clones are everywhere, in a desperate attempt to seize control over as many users as possible. Well, things are different with the new DreamBook Light IL1 from Pioneer Computers - it is not a clone, bu...

8 February 2008
06:14 GMT

Asus P5E3 Premium Motherboard: Surf the Web Without an Operating System Installed

Asustek has just released yet another hot motherboard model in the P5E enthusiast family: the P5E3 Premium. Built on the X48 chipset from Intel, the motherboard features the Splashtop technology, that lets the user surf the web a few seconds after they pushed the power button. There's no need to have any operati...

5 February 2008
10:17 GMT

The Eee PC Can Run Cloudbook's Operating System

The Eee PC is not only a nice accessory to replace ladies' purses on a party, but it is also a toy for worldwide modding enthusiasts. More experienced users unleashed the power of the soldering iron, while others were just pleased to port other operating systems the tiny Eee was not supposed to be able to run.Th...

5 February 2008
08:37 GMT

Asustek to Lower Eee Shipment Expectations, Slashes Touchscreen Features

Taiwanese PC manufacturer Asus seems to have hit a wall recently. The bold sales estimations in December last year seem now more difficult to achieve. Those who have been pessimistic about the sub-notebook might say that its success has come to an end.According to some reports, the PC vendor has lowered the laptop sh...

4 February 2008
04:27 GMT

Asus' EAH3870 X2 1GB TOP - Four-Monitor Insanity

It seems that regular Radeon HD 3870 X2 are not impressive enough for anybody, or at least that's what the guys at Asus think. The official launch did not bring the stock ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 graphics card; it basically rained with 3870 X2 models from all the major graphics cards products, but none is as impres...

2 February 2008
05:51 GMT

The Cloudbook Gets Delayed, But Comes With Windows XP Drives

The Asustek Eee PC competitor from Everex, the Cloudbook, will arrive a little late on the market than initially promised. As I said in a previous article, the delay is caused by the company having to perform additional software tweaks for the gOS Linux distribution. Moreover, the Chinese New Year will make it impos...

1 February 2008
03:02 GMT

The Eee Goes Big: Asustek to Announce 42-inch Eee TV

Asustek decided that the ultra-mobile Eee PC is not enough to take a good grip at the computer market. Since the majority of the computer vendors are sticking with their obsession of launching perfect clones of Asustek's small and appealing devices, the Taiwanese manufacturer thought it's time to break the ...

30 January 2008
06:54 GMT

UMPCs to Storm the Market: Press F1 for Help

Asustek's Eee PC has started a real revolution in the UMPC sector. Initially perceived as a niche market, UMPCs would appeal to business people and would act more like a sophisticated personal organizer. Asustek took their size, shrunk it more, then mix it with an eye-candy case and a free colorful operating sys...

28 January 2008
08:37 GMT

The 8G Eee PC Gets Delayed By Parts Tight Supply

Remember the Asus Eee PC crisis that hit the market just before the Christmas shopping season? The Eee PC was really hard to snatch, and everyone was asking why Asustek had not produced even more units. Well, first of all, Asus was not aware of the device's popularity at that time. Secondly, although Asus had th...

28 January 2008
06:33 GMT


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