Have you had enough of the Dell Adamo? No, of course you haven’t, so settle back and enjoy Notebooks.com’s unboxing video of the luxury ultraportable. Xavier has also shared some first impressions and, while Dell has come a long way from mainstream Inspirons with the Adamo, it doesn’t sound like they’re quite all the way up there in the MacBook Air league yet.
Unboxing video after the cut
BeamBox’s 30-lumen Evolution R1 pico-projector doesn’t officially begin shipping until the start of April, but SlashGear managed to acquire one ahead of the launch. Measuring a short, sturdy 108 x 59 x 28mm and tipping the scales at 175g, the R1’s party trick is not only projecting external AV sources up to 100-inches at 640 x 480 resolution, but content from its own onboard media player.
Unboxing video and first-impressions after the cut
Dell’s Adamo high-end ultraportable notebook has shown up for some more live photos, this time in both its onyx and pearl (black and white) color-schemes. Pocket-lint spent the hands-on time with “the thinnest notebook in the world”, marveling at its metal trackpad, combination of brushed and smooth aluminum, and the pearl version’s unibody design.
Kogan are better known for their attempts to bring Android-based smartphones to the market, but the Australian company also harbors netbook plans. Rather than develop their own, however, they’ve rebadged an OEM design; Australian PC Authority took a brief look at the 10-inch, Intel Atom N270 netbook, which, like the cellphone, is called the Kogan Agora.
From rumor to an official release and getting to hold one in our hands, the Sony DSC-HX1 superzoom was every bit as good as Sony advertised. Excellent built quality, 20x optics, 3-inch tilt LCD, 1080p video, Face Detection and a newly announced Exmore CMOS sensor with 10fps burst speed at a whole 9-MP; what’s not to like?
We can’t quite get enough of the ASUS Eee PC 1008HA Shell here at CeBIT 2009; the super-skinny 1-inch netbook keeps us coming back for more. Today we stopped by to check out not only its textured chassis but the new ASUS Eee Docking bar, which promises one-click access to the growing list of ASUS Eee-family services.
Eee PC Docking Bar screenshot after the cut
Samsung’s NC20 was officially announced last week, and the VIA Nano-based netbook has already landed – albeit in Korean rather than US form – on LaptopMag’s test bench. With a 12-inch display it’s sitting squarely at what some would consider the netbook/ultraportable crossover point, which gives the Nano CPU plenty to live up to.
MSI have brought their X-Slim X340 ultraportable along to CeBIT, and while the MacBook Air resemblance is obvious, the MSI does a better job of standing apart in black. Design cues aside, it’s a slick machine, with a 13-inch 16:9 LED-backlit display and power consumption that, according to the manufacturer, is one-sixth that of other notebooks.
As expected, ASUS brought along the latest version of their Eee Keyboard to CeBIT, and we had a quick catch-up with the innovative hardware. Packing a nettop PC inside a QWERTY ‘board, together with a 5-inch touchscreen, ASUS also confirmed the Eee Keyboard’s current hardware specs.
At the same time as launching the X-Slim X340 and X600, MSI were also flaunting their MSI Wind Box DC100 nettop, and the Wind Top AE1900, AE2010 and AE2200 touchscreen all-in-ones. Engadget Chinese grabbed some hands-on time with all four, together with the X340, and have come away considerably impressed. ASUS may have got there first with the Eee Box nettop and Eee Top all-in-one, while Apple certainly sired the X-Slim’s design DNA with the MacBook Air, but there’s still plenty of attraction in MSI’s range.
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