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Many of the most popular netbooks that Asus and other companies make use SSDs rather than traditional hard drives. The SSD helps the little systems get more run time out of their battery packs and helps them perform better. If you are looking for more performance from a netbook that came with an SSD from the factory, Active Media has a new line of upgrade SSDs called the SaberTooth S4 series.
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By Shane McGlaun on Monday, Nov 9th 2009 No CommentsAcer Aspire Revo R3610-U9012 nettop gets dual-core Atom update
By Chris Davies on Friday, Oct 16th 2009 1 CommentAcer’s Aspire Revo nettop has just received a welcome shot in the arm, courtesy of a dual-core Atom 330 processor and an extra gig of RAM. The Aspire Revo R3610-U9012 kicks out its predecessor’s Atom 230 chip in favor of the quicker alternative, and pairs it with 2GB of RAM, Windows 7 and NVIDIA Ion graphics. That should hopefully make the system a little better at coping with non-1080p video tasks, something the first model had issues with.
Active Media SaberTooth-SS ASUS Eee PC SSD upgrades
By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Jul 15th 2009 No CommentsActive Media are back, and they’ve brought a range of upgrades for your tired, file-stuffed Eee PC. The latest SaberTooth-S and SaberTooth-SS SSD ranges are intended to boost storage in compatible ASUS netbooks to up to 64GB, together with access times of up to 155MB/sec.
ASUS Eee PC T91 finally available in US: $499.99
By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Jul 15th 2009 No CommentsASUS’ Eee PC T91 has appeared on the Amazon US site, listed as in-stock and ready for immediate delivery. Priced at $499.99, the long-awaited T91 is ASUS’ first 8.9-inch convertible touchscreen netbook, and uses an Intel Atom Z520 1.33GHz processor, 1GB of RAM (2GB max) and the company’s custom “TouchSuite” UI.
ASUS confirm T91 US release on July 15th
By Chris Davies on Friday, Jul 10th 2009 No CommentsTwitter is great, but we do prefer more mainstream routes for much-anticipated news like the release date of the Eee PC T91 touchscreen netbook. Still, after the in-stock/not-in-stock flip-flopping of retailers, we’ll welcome anything concrete from ASUS themselves, even if it’s a two-sentence tweet telling us that the 8.9-inch netbook will arrive in the US on July 15th.
Intel Moblin v2.0 beta for netbooks released
By Chris Davies on Tuesday, May 19th 2009 No CommentsIntel have released Moblin v2.0 beta for netbooks and nettops, the latest version of the company’s open-source OS for Atom-based devices. Mobile v2.0 brings with it a new, visually-enhanced GUI, together with the “m_zone” homescreen, integrated Twitter and Last.fm widgets, and a new integrated browser based on Mozilla’s engine.
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ASUS working on Android Eee PC netbook confirms exec
By Chris Davies on Monday, Feb 23rd 2009 1 CommentASUS currently has a team of engineers working on Android-based netbooks, according to Eee PC team leader Samson Hu. However, despite the investment in development, the decision to release an Eee PC running the Google open-source OS has not been made.
ASUS axing all 8.9-inch Eee PC netbooks in 2009
By Chris Davies on Friday, Feb 20th 2009 No Comments
According to the latest reports coming out of ASUS, the company is planning to completely phase out its 8.9-inch Eee PC range in 2009. Benson Lin, president of Asustek’s Asia-Pacific division, told reporters this week that the Eee PC range will continue with two size variants, 10-inches and 7-inches.
CES 2009: ASUS Eee Keyboard with integrated touchscreen
By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Jan 6th 2009 No CommentsASUS today unveiled the Eee Keyboard, a full nettop computer built into a keyboard form-factor. The keyboard, which resembles that supplied with the Eee Top touchscreen nettop, also has a 5-inch display on the right-hand side, together with Ultrawideband HDMI connectivity.
Quanta Optical Touch works with Windows 7 multitouch gestures
By Chris Davies on Friday, Dec 12th 2008 No CommentsQuanta has been demonstrating multitouch touch-sensitive displays using an optical recognition system rather than the more common capacitive or resistive panels. The technology, which the company calls Optical Touch, relies on two cameras embedded into the top left and right corners of the display, which track the user’s fingers. It will be compatible with the multitouch functionality coming as standard in Windows 7.
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