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Its big, its black, and it lights up red and its made by ASUS. ASUS is a company known for making some of the best and most dependable components and with their reach covering motherboards, soundcards, cases, power supplies, and video cards, its no surprise they took the next logical steps and made their own [...]
So apparently Asus has a press event tomorrow, where they’ll be showing off a new 8.9-inch Asus Eee model. Presumably it will also have Windows as an option based on some of the banners handing around.
Asus is showing their latest Lamborghini line, the VX3 at Cebit 2008. This is the next best thing after the real car! The 12.1-inch sub-notebook carries Lamborghini’s signature color of Yellow and Black.
Asus is well-known for a lot of things, their soundcards not among them, but that might be about to change. They just recently started manufacturing these little buggers, and I don’t know personally how they sound, but specs wise they seem fairly on par with most of Creative’s offerings.
I want on of these monitors, it has a resolution of 1920×1200 on a 24-inch screen, a 3000:1 contrast ratio, HDMI, D-SUB, and DVD-D inputs. To top all of that off, literally, they integrated a 1.3MP camera into the top of it.
Asus calls it HDTV suite, but it sounds like a spin-off HD scalar with a built-in SD tuner. The Asus HD scaler takes any input from s-video, component, DVI, VGA, or HDMI and upscales the source up to resolution of 1920×1200 for your computer monitor. It also has NTSC and Pal tuner to turn your [...]
Alas, one of the other major PC manufacturers is getting into the UMPC space, well not really, it might just be semantics, but I’d call this and ultra-portable, not a UMPC. It’s the Compaq 2133 and its being made to compete with the Asus Eee, although hopefully it won’t have the same superbly generic hardware [...]
Not much is known about the mysterious competitor from Acer, but we know they ordered 1 million of them from contract manufacturer Wistron. On top of that we know that they will have 7 or 9 inch screens and will cost about $470.
NVIDIA’s latest addition to the mobile graphics market doesn’t offer up much new in terms of hardware performance its 8000M series brethren. In fact, hardware wise the 9500M GS and 9300M G are exactly the same as the 8600M GT and 8400M GS, respectively.
There are two, the P5E3 Premium WiFi-AP @n, and the Rampage Formula motherboard. They both feature the X48 chipset with the ICH9R Southbridge and Intel Fast Memory access, they both also accept Core 2 Extreme, Core 2 Quad, and Core 2 Duo processors, they both have dual gigabit Ethernet, 8-channel HD audio, and system bus’ [...]
