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Acer Ferrari One FO200-15 netbook gets updated

Sun, 02 May 2010 08:57:30 +0000

Just ahead of the first Formula 1 Grand Prix season 2010 Acer has updated its Ferrari One netbook. Perfect timing, perfect badge on the hood. Updates, however, are not what you’d shout Ferrariish or even Acer Aspire Oneish. Recently we covered announcement of Aspire One AO 532-h and we liked it. Obviously, considering of the sponsorship particularities, Ferrari netbooks must have an AMD processor, so upgrading to Intel Atom N450 is no the case. But all the rest could and should be revamped. I’m afraid latest FO200-15 has only had its HDD replaced with an 500GB unit and that’s it. Available in a week in Japan for price equivalent to $800.

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Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus are now official

Sun, 02 May 2010 08:57:27 +0000

Good news for Palms WebOS fans as today Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus were announced to come out soon. Apart from the fact of the announcement, which would have inevitably happened sooner or later, we want to bring in some details on what makes the difference within Palm smartphone models, and those with Plus in the name. Firstly, AT&T and Verizon are now additionally in the business. So you can couple services they supply to that. soon after there is Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g added to Pixis feature list. that, I think, fills the most obvious feature gap within Pixi and other smartphones including Pre as well by the way. Whats about Pre Plus, it now has double the memory (16GB), a bit longer battery life and video capture. Pre Plus and Pixi Plus are priced $149 on AT&T, $179 on Verizon and $49 on both carriers respectively. To get one of these when they come out soon you will have to agree on a two-year plan and mail-in rebate.

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Asus Eee Top ET2010AGT – 20-inch touchscreen for $850

Sun, 02 May 2010 08:57:25 +0000

Earlier that month we have been looking at a new MSI Wind Top All-in-One lineup. A beautiful piece of engineering and design, but, lets be honest, pricewise it pushes extremes of what even latest hardware can cost. that though, Asus Eee Top ET2010AGT, which seems to me like a very distant but still a rival for a Core i7 powered 24-inch MSI winds things down a bit. I urge you to leave alone prejudice about Atom processors that all Eee PCs tend to have. Its AMD Athlon X2 1.6GHz for that one, coupled with ATI Mobility Radeon HD5470 with 512MB committed memory, 4GB RAM and 7200rpm 500GB HDD should do well for home entertaining. And you can play with that 20-inch 1400 x 900 multitouch display for equivalent of $850 or drop that feature and pay $800.

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ASUS’ new USB 3.0 chip brings SuperSpeed experience to existing and future motherboards

Sun, 02 May 2010 08:57:23 +0000

Ive said it before. Major manufacturers should start implementing USB 3.0 technology into all shipping gadgets they can. That is the way for a new technology to become widely available in no instance. And what technology. SuperSpeed USB, apart from multiplying transfer speeds by 10, allows to stream video of any quality and resolution, at which I look with healthy enthusiasm. DisplayLink is working on that. So, the technology itself, ASUS has recently announced that they will install their freshly designed USB 3.0 enabled PCIe x4 bridge chip into a (very) wide range of its motherboards. In fact, N Series laptops and latest Eee PC netbooks will now have USB 3.0 chips, as well as machines based on a good dozen other of ASUS motherboards. Whats more, you can buy above mentioned PCIe x4 bridge chip for earlier-released units.

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ASUS rolls out DirectX 11 ready ENGTX480 and ENGTX470

Sun, 02 May 2010 08:57:21 +0000

Just after NVIDIA has officially announced its latest to period insight into DirectX 11 gaming experience, we got ourselves ASUS building a GPU around next gen CUDA architecture. Lineup consists of two options. First one is ENGTX480 based on GTX480 and, as we have it, has precisely the same specifications. So has with GTX470-based ENGTX470. Performance of both, or what is even more critical its comparison with ATI Radeon HD 5970 is arguable. But that should not be the topic of that post. So far, check out ENGTX480 and ENGTX470 specifications after the jump.

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Home protection issues – any safety measure system is better than none

Sun, 02 May 2010 08:57:19 +0000

Over the years weve seen a lot of gadgets. Some of them we liked and some we didnt. None the less, user aiding technology advice motto we have on our blog results in the fact that most of our posts are about gadgets that citizens actually buy. So we thought we should prepare a better job informing you on the ways to preserve what you have acquired through the years from being stolen and choosing home defense monitoring service.

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Onkyo MX1007A4 netbook has 14.4h battery life

Sun, 02 May 2010 08:57:16 +0000

What do you do whether you are not among worlds major manufacturers but you have desire and ability to form something competitive on the market? Onkyo has picked up one of the all-time good solutions for its MX1007A4 netbook coming out in Japan next week – made one feature noticeable among all the others. that has 14.4 hours of battery life and no, it doesnt weight a ton. In fact its barely by a kilo 1.16kg (2.56lbs) to be precise. At that point Im guessing that battery life that lengthy is achieved not by a huge battery in first place, but by very economic capability management. Which means the MX1007A4 does not have too many features to play with. I cant blame Onkyos latest netbook for that. I think it makes perfect sense and featurelessness to it will construct it cheap plus. Mind you though that MX1007A4 has just abundant of everything for everyday life. Check out specs we have scraped up together structure Japanese press release.

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HTML5 goes mobile with LG Mini

Sun, 02 May 2010 08:57:14 +0000

LG launches its Mini (model number GD880) web orientated mobile phone that April in Europe followed by other regions of the world. LG states no price as it will vary according to every specific region. The most interesting thing yet about the GD880 Mini is its Phantom Browser with HTML5 support. Since web orientation is a key feature of LG Mini, they made it a full touchscreen with 3.2-inch display and no physical keyboard. As the official press release says, they tried to keep things as simple as possible, so they like to shout it a mobile phone with smartphone-like features. Design is therefore plus simple and is March’s whether product design award holder. The bottom line for LG Mini is: HTML5 web experience for all popular web services and web apps, Wi-Fi, HSDPA, A-GPS, fresh design plus 5 megapixel camera. Probably won’t cost too much.

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Worlds smallest Bluetooth chip goes into production, pushes boundaries of compatible devices

Sun, 02 May 2010 08:57:11 +0000

Murata, a Japanese electronics manufacturer you may remember for unicyclist robots, has recently announced that they have started production of a LBMA Series Bluetooth module that is at the moment the smallest in the world. Its dimensions are 3.5mm x 3.5mm x 1mm which makes it 30% smaller than the previous smallest chip. LBMA Series Bluetooth module v2.1 + EDR will be manufactured in quantity of .5mln and, thanks to tiny its tiny size, installed into a widest ever range of devices. Smartphones, PMPs, netbooks, etc. just to name a few. Well done, Murata!

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Intel works on 48-core processors, shares first results

Sun, 02 May 2010 08:57:05 +0000

Futuristic 48-core design of Intel’s latest processor concept may sound like company got involved into an arms race with AMD, particularly since Intel Xeon 7500 designed for servers has 8 cores versus Opteron 6100’s 12 cores from AMD. But as it appears, limited edition of 48-core processors has come into that world only as a guinea pig and will most likely be sacrificed in the name of results it will achieve in the hands of lucky researches when they get it in late Q2.

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Gadget News and Reviews » Gadget Reviews

Acer Ferrari One FO200-15 netbook gets updated

Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus are now official

Asus Eee Top ET2010AGT – 20-inch touchscreen for $850

ASUS’ new USB 3.0 chip brings SuperSpeed experience to existing and future motherboards

ASUS rolls out DirectX 11 ready ENGTX480 and ENGTX470

Home protection issues – any safety measure system is better than none

Onkyo MX1007A4 netbook has 14.4h battery life

HTML5 goes mobile with LG Mini

Worlds smallest Bluetooth chip goes into production, pushes boundaries of compatible devices

Intel works on 48-core processors, shares first results

Worlds smallest Bluetooth chip goes into production, pushes boundaries of compatible devices