AMD are talking up their latest collaboration with manufacturer Clevo, packing the chipmakers’ Athlon 64 X2 processor and ATI Radeon HD 4570 graphics into what’s described as “an optimal price”. While the targets of these new machines – unnamed by the AMD press release and seemingly yet to show up on Clevo’s own site – are developing markets, we can’t help but think that it’s not just Brazil and Taiwan who would like “long battery life” and “exceptional video performance” with a budget price.
There’s nothing like a WiMAX ultraportable to wake you up on a Monday morning, and we’ve got three of them. Samsung, Clevo and Toshiba have all announced WiMAX-enabled models; netbooks in the case of the former two – the Samsung NC10 WiMAX and Clevo M811L WiMAX - while Toshiba have stuffed the high-speed connectivity into a full-spec notebook, the dynabook SS RX2/WAJ.
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Live photos of the Clevo TN70M convertible UMPC/netbook have emerged, courtesy of importer Mobilx. The 7-inch touchscreen device squeezes in a full QWERTY keyboard, 1.33GHz Intel Atom Z520 CPU and roughly three hours battery life under load. It also has a webcam and fingerprint reader.
It’s been a while since we’ve seen a UMPC from Clevo – all the way back to March 2008 and the TN120R, in fact – but the company is back with the 1.33GHz Atom Z520 powered Clevo TN70M. Based around a 7-inch 800 x 480 touchscreen, the 904g UMPC packs WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS and optional WLAN.
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It looks like Intel’s CULV wish may be coming true, as six whitebox manufacturers in Taiwan are apparently ramping up for production of ultraportable notebooks based on the platform. Industry sources have fingered Pegatron, Clevo, MSI, Compal, ECS and Mitac as all preparing 13- to 14-inch CULV notebooks, with the first shipments expected in June 2009.
Lacking the power of the D900F, but a whole lot happier with drops and falls, Clevo’s rugged 8.9-inch touchscreen slate uses the Intel Atom Z5×0-series processor and pairs it with a chassis that meets IP54 standards. Provisionally known as the Clevo T89xM, the device is intended for outdoor workers such as engineers and surveyors.
Its sober, squared-off chassis may look uninspiring, but under the hood the Clevo D900F notebook is anything but shy. The D900F packs a choice of Intel Core i7 processor with the X58 chipset, together with three 500GB hard-drives and NVIDIA’s G280 GPU with 1GB of memory.
It’s a convertible tablet that measure in at 12.1” with a 1280×800 resolution. You get your choice of processors ranging from the power hungry Core 2 Duo T9500 running at 2.6GHz all the way down to a more battery friendly Celeron M at 1.73GHz.
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