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Each passing day seems to bring us one more piece of news about one of ASUS' netbooks from its vast series of Eee PCs. If you haven't grown tired yet of the extensive amount of information available on the company's Eee family, we're more than happy to report that Eee PC 900A has finally gone offi... |
13 August 2008
04:43 GMT |
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Most of you might know the Medion brand thanks to its small-sized, Intel Atom-powered portable computer system meant to compete with ASUS' vast Eee PC lineup. The Akoya Mini has seen an extensive media attention since early April, with everybody of the opinion that it's quite a looker. This is probably why ... |
11 August 2008
13:23 GMT |
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As we are approaching a very interesting autumn, extensive rumors of upcoming products keep surfacing, and the netbook market is certainly one of the topics that are most frequently approached. Recently, LG's X110 netbook is believed to provide its users with one significant feature that isn't that common i... |
11 August 2008
09:10 GMT |
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MSI's Eee Box competitor was announced as early as the beginning of June this year but, since then, the Taiwanese manufacturer has failed to start shipping the product. Known as the Wind PC or the Wind Nettop, this desktop system has been designed to compete with ASUS' Eee Box for the title of the best smal... |
8 August 2008
10:21 GMT |
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Last week, a new netbook made the headlines, including our own - the Sylvania, to be more specific. The interesting thing about this new product is that it isn't provided by any of the major notebook manufacturers, but by a small company that is trying to capitalize from this emerging market. Today, we bring you... |
8 August 2008
09:14 GMT |
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It looks like almost everything that has the Eee logo on is due to become successful at a very fast pace, which suits ASUS quite well. No matter if we are talking about the Eee PC or its desktop version, the Eee Box, ASUS' Eee products are among users' favorites. An example of ASUS' success comes from ... |
4 August 2008
14:41 GMT |
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As most of you must know by now, the latest news reports on Intel's Atom and VIA's Nano processor claim the latter is better than the highly-rated Atom. All surveys and head-to-head reviews of the two small-sized processors appear to indicate a single winner, namely VIA's Nano CPU. Undoubtedly, this en... |
4 August 2008
09:48 GMT |
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The first rumors about ASUS releasing a number of new Eee PC models surfaced last week and, since then, we also got to see them being confirmed. The company's CEO, Jerry Shen, officially confirmed that ASUSTek was prepared to launch a couple of new models, which would come as part of three Eee PC categories.The ... |
4 August 2008
03:23 GMT |
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As we mentioned in a series of our previous articles, the netbook market is expanding at a very fast pace, for which reason a number of manufacturers have announced their intention of joining in. Major companies such as Dell, Lenovo, Toshiba, Fujitsu and others, have already expressed their interest in entering the n... |
1 August 2008
10:09 GMT |
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Lenovo, which is currently one of the largest manufacturers of portable computer systems, is also set to break into the netbook segment by releasing a new product. The company will try to provide its fans with a competitor to ASUS' Eee PC, which, as of now, is the most successful item on the netbook market. On t... |
1 August 2008
06:56 GMT |
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Common sense tells us that glassy materials, just like typical glass, should form disordered crystalline structures resembling the state of frozen liquids as frustration prevents the atoms from freezing into a well ordered state. However, in spin glasses the disordered crystalline structure is induced by the magnetic... |
31 July 2008
10:17 GMT |
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As expected, Taiwanese manufacturer ASUS went ahead with the release of the Eee Box, despite rumors of a possible delay caused by typhoon Fung Wong. The company officially launched the desktop version of its Eee PC family yesterday in Taiwan, which means that users over there will soon be able to purchase one from th... |
31 July 2008
07:00 GMT |
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The latest reviews and tests made by a number of sites show that, on the low-power area, Via's Nano processor leaves Intel's Atom chip behind. The processors were tested on similar desktop systems by all the reviewers. For the Nano-based system, a prototype Mini-ITX motherboard with a 1.8GHz Nano L2100 proc... |
30 July 2008
06:03 GMT |
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As we mentioned before in a couple of articles, Intel's Atom processor has become one of the company's most successful products. And that's mainly because of a number of manufacturers that have announced their intentions of releasing their own Atom-powered, small sized computer systems, most of which a... |
25 July 2008
03:18 GMT |
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Undoubtedly, Intel's Atom processor is one of the most successful products of this year, a fact that be easily by just looking at the high number of Atom-based computer devices that have been announced recently. No matter if we are talking about portable or desktop computer systems, most of the recent low-cost, ... |
24 July 2008
11:21 GMT |
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What follows will probably not sit well with all those AMD fans who were expecting the Sunnyvale-based company to put out a new CPU to compete with Intel's Atom in the netbook market. Sad but true: according to the statements of one of the company's officials, AMD is not going to release a low-power, low-co... |
23 July 2008
05:55 GMT |
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In a market that is clearly oriented towards netbooks and the latest Intel Centrino 2 portable computer systems, Gigabyte is offering a tablet PC that is designed to be part of the low-power notebooks. The M192 was announced last month during the Computex show, held in Taipei, but has not seen yet its fair share of p... |
21 July 2008
17:57 GMT |
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Weighing small masses of matter can be rather tricky in some situations, since such processes usually take place in high-resolution mass spectrometers that can easily destroy the sample while measuring it. However, resonators can now provide a much better solution, allowing highly accurate measuring processes to take... |
21 July 2008
10:31 GMT |
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With the netbook market getting so crowded with each passing day, it's very likely that AMD will soon provide a new low-power CPU meant to take on Intel's Atom. As we already told you a while back, the new CPU is expected to be launched by the end of the year.Back when we first brought you the news, the est... |
21 July 2008
07:06 GMT |
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The netbook market is undoubtedly becoming very crowded and, even if the main competitors still are ASUS, MSI and Acer, other manufacturers are also getting in the game. This time around, we are talking about LG, which is mostly know for its consumer electronics lineup. Apparently, the South Korean-based manufacturer... |
21 July 2008
05:26 GMT |
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Despite the fact that Intel's Atom processor is generating an increasing amount of interest on behalf of many manufacturers of computer systems, the worldwide leading processor maker doesn't see the Atom replacing its Celeron CPUs. At least not in the near future. "At this point in time, we do not see [Inte... |
18 July 2008
06:19 GMT |
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It appears that Intel is very optimistic about its business, especially when it comes down to the notebook market, one that is apparently expected to grow at a faster pace than initially believed, mostly thanks to the latest netbooks that have been released or announced by various manufacturers. Since Intel is curren... |
16 July 2008
05:33 GMT |
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The strong impact Intel's Atom platform had on the low-power ultraportable market received fast responses from other manufacturers, mainly from VIA with its Nano chip, and AMD with the rumored 1GHz processor. The Atom, however, managed to impress the makers of industrial PCs (IPCs). Since the platform went under... |
10 July 2008
05:22 GMT |
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Technology advances at a very fast pace and things tend to become better, faster and smaller. This is the case with portable storage devices based on Flash technology. USB flash drives tend to become smaller by the day, providing users with high storage capacities in a wide range of form factors. Such an example is I... |
30 June 2008
03:14 GMT |
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AMD will not stand by and watch how Intel's Atom processor takes all the spotlight in the netbook market, especially since it is still far from producing a real competitor to the latter's high-end CPU lineup. As we already mentioned before, AMD is planning to release a processor meant to offer the necessary... |
20 June 2008
07:02 GMT |
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Recent reports have made it more than clear that it's still a long way to go until we see the first Atom-powered Eee PC available on the market. The same goes for its direct competitors, the Wind, Aspire One and Dell's E. But, until Intel is finally ready for an Intel Atom mass production and ASUS is able t... |
13 June 2008
10:15 GMT |
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It is coming! Dell's Inspiron Mini, that small candy-red sub-notebook that Michael Dell was caught carrying around a few weeks back, is just around the corner. And, as you might have expected (who didn't?), the "Inspiron Mini" is going to be powered by an Intel Atom processor, which means that we still have... |
13 June 2008
10:06 GMT |
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Intel is sort of used to delays in its own production line, if we're to consider the recent news about Intel postponing the official release of the Nehalem processors, as well as not being able to ship the Atom CPU until September 2008. On top of that, it appears that Intel also had some difficulties in bringing... |
12 June 2008
10:30 GMT |
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The 2008 edition of the Computex trade show, which was held in Taipei, Taiwan and will close its doors today, has brought to light a number of new products which will most certainly change the way we perceive things around us. Starting with the much anticipated ASUS Eee PC, most of the manufacturers that were present... |
7 June 2008
05:52 GMT |
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The June 2008 Community Technology Preview of Windows Embedded Standard 2009 has been made available for download via Microsoft Connect. Windows Embedded Standard 2009 is the successor of Windows XP Embedded and, in this context, it was designed to play well with both Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. At the sam... |
4 June 2008
10:34 GMT |
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Let's stop for a moment from reading all the news coming from Taipei, mainly from Computex, and count the number of netbooks that have been recently announced sporting Intel's Atom processor. How many are there, if we count Asus' Eee PC, MSI's Wind, Acer's Aspire One and Gigabyte's M912 ... |
4 June 2008
10:00 GMT |
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After ASUS and Acer decided to go official with their new sub-notebook offerings, MSI has finally settled on no longer keeping its fans waiting and has consequently officially launched the MSI Wind. But that's not all, as it has also released the MSI Wind PC, thus becoming a competitor to ASUS' recently rev... |
4 June 2008
02:19 GMT |
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NVIDIA, the leading manufacturer of graphic processors, has recently announced its newest line of graphic processors named Tegra. These new products are designed to fit the technical requirements of the next generation of ultra portable computing devices, an area in which Intel is already present with its latest Atom... |
2 June 2008
09:27 GMT |
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Protons and neutrons are the basic constituents of the atomic nucleus. Understanding the interactions between the nucleons may provide some insight towards understanding the structure of the nucleus in light nuclei and neutron stars alike. An experiment carried out at the US Department of Energy's Thomas Jeffers... |
30 May 2008
03:26 GMT |
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Apple has been rumored to be working on a tablet Mac for years, yet the Cupertino-based electronics maker has never even hinted at the possibility of such a device to emerge from their labs. Luckily for us, CEOs that share interests with Apple sometimes spill the beans on the company's plans, and so, according t... |
26 May 2008
04:39 GMT |
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VIA is riding the UMPC wave with its upcoming Isaiah processor, the company's first x86 chip with a modern, superscalar architecture. As more and more companies plan to release new models of low-cost / low performance sub-notebooks, VIA could make a comeback thanks to the puny, yet powerful chip alone.The CPU ma... |
17 May 2008
04:19 GMT |
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Eee PC enthusiasts, rejoice, as more new photos of the upcoming Eee PC with Intel Atom heart have made their way on the web. While early adopters rushed to snatch an Intel Celeron model, the upcoming Eee PC will not only bless late customers with a brand-new breed of chips, but it will also come in a sleeker computer... |
16 May 2008
09:55 GMT |
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VIA has been manufacturing low-energy microprocessors for quite a while now, but its designs would hardly pose any threat for both Intel and AMD. Things are about to change, however, as the latest VIA creation is more than a chip to be used in toasters and microwave ovens. VIA plans to announce its Isaiah processor l... |
16 May 2008
04:20 GMT |
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Intel's low-power, low-budget 45-nanometer CPU for mobile Internet devices is expected to run short in supplies during the third quarter of the year because of the increased demand on the OEM market. According to Intel, the company is struggling to deliver as many units as possible in due time, but the initial e... |
5 May 2008
04:36 GMT |
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On 30 April 1897, at the Royal Institution Friday Evening Discourse, Joseph John Thomson announced that he had discovered 'corpuscles', bodies smaller than the hydrogen atom and bearing a negative electric charge. These corpuscles were later named 'electrons', and were the first subatomic particle... |
30 April 2008
05:56 GMT |
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System builder Hewlett-Packard has reportedly placed an order for 100,000 C7-M ultra-low voltage processors to power its 2133 Mini-Note low-cost PC. The computer manufacturer plans to sell about 500,000 units of its sub-notebook during this year, and early estimations claim that the company will not make the switch t... |
22 April 2008
03:19 GMT |
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One of the strong points in Asustek's Eee PC 701 was its diminutive price tag, situated below the $400 threshold. However, the upcoming version of the notebook is slated for May 12 release and will come with a little premium, currently set at $549.It's true that the new sub-notebook will feature additional ... |
21 April 2008
03:05 GMT |
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The Standard Model describes most of the properties of fundamental particles, however it is far from being perfect. The Standard Model cannot explain why charge is experienced in electron units, nor how certain particles acquire neutral charge and if whether the charge of an atom with equal numbers of protons and ele... |
19 April 2008
05:50 GMT |
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Asustek's Eee PC 401 ultra-mobile PC managed to sell 5 million units in just five months, but the company has greater expectations from its newly-introduced Eee PC 900 model. The Taiwanese notebook manufacturer finally pulled the veil off the 9-inch miniature notebook, that will come with a resistive touch-scree... |
16 April 2008
10:16 GMT |
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Intel's all-in-one-wonder Atom processor has just been announced to power Willcom's next-generation of mobile Internet devices. The first unit, the D4 WSO16SH, was showcased during this weekend, and despite its miniature size, the device manages to make no performance compromise.Willcom's first mobile ... |
15 April 2008
03:37 GMT |
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Hewlett-Packard's miracle sub-notebook in the 2133 Mini-Note series has just been released, and rumors about a mid-cycle refresh have already started to emerge. The sub-notebook is one of the most impressive low-cost notebooks on the market and is extremely suitable for both kids and businesses.The notebook is p... |
11 April 2008
03:41 GMT |
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Taiwanese manufacturer VIA teamed up with the graphics specialist Nvidia in a joint effort of capping Intel's upcoming Atom processor. The strategic pact could give birth to a whole new series of hardware parts, such as processors and integrated chipsets to deliver increased performance when paired. While Intel ... |
10 April 2008
09:52 GMT |
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Intel's upcoming generation of NetBook is especially designed to deliver web interaction capabilities at an extremely low cost. Despite the fact that, at the moment, they are neither powerful, nor good-looking (remember the odd carrying handle of the Classmate PC), other system vendors are working their way to d... |
7 April 2008
02:57 GMT |
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Taiwanese computer manufacturer Asustek plans to release a new miniaturized mobile solution, called the R50. The device breaks the company's line of ultra-mobile PC's such as the Eee PC, in order to follow Intel on the Mobile Interned Devices playground.The R50 is a 5.6-inch mobile Internet device that is e... |
4 April 2008
08:48 GMT |
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The first batch of Atom processors has been finally unveiled during yesterday's Internet Developer Forum conference. Previously showcased earlier last month, the new Atom and Atom Centrino chips come in a 13 x 14-millimeter package size and will power the next generation of mobile Internet devices.The five new a... |
2 April 2008
06:59 GMT |
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