Monday’s here and we’ve got another week ahead of us. And today’s already been pretty busy, considering Apple’s gone and outed the official release date of their upcoming OS, and even Nokia got some netbook action unveiled. And while I’m sure someone at Sanyo cares about all of that, we’re sure they’re thinking you should be more excited about a small camcorder that’s capable of recording at 720p. And, if that’s not all, there’s something else that might entice you to grab this little camera.
Nokia have announced their own netbook, the Nokia Booklet 3G, promising up to 12 hours battery life together with integrated WiFi, 3G HSPA and GPS. The 1.25kg netbook has an aluminum chassis and measures around 2cm thick; it uses an unspecified Intel Atom processor, has an HDMI output for HD video playback and a 10.1-inch glass HD-ready display.
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MSI have pushed out another mainstream notebook, the Bravo EX628, complete with a 16-inch 1,366 x 768 display, Intel Core 2 Duo processor and discrete ATI Mobility Radeon HD4670 graphics. The company are billing the EX628 as a multimedia maven, with its integrated subwoofer and 16:9 aspect display certainly making for a reasonable performer, plus there’s a 1080p-capable HDMI port and Blu ray drive.
Acer’s Veriton N260G has been launched in the US, shortly after its arrival in the UK, but unfortunately the company hasn’t seen fit to slot in the NVIDIA Ion GPU while it chugged across the Atlantic. The Veriton N260G-U2802CP still packs Intel’s 1.6GHz Atom N280 processor, paired with 2GB of RAM and a 160GB hard-drive, but unlike its Aspire Revo consumer cousin the business-focussed N260G uses Intel GMA 4500M graphics.
The ASUS EeeTop ET2002T first shown back in June at Computex has apparently made its official debut in France, with Blogeee spotting the full spec-list and some press shots. As expected, the ET2002T brings with it a 20-inch 1,600 x 900 touchscreen display along with a DVD burner and – most interestingly – NVIDIA’s Ion GPU.
Dell may have canned their Inspiron Mini 12, but they’ve replaced it with a new CULV ultraportable in the shape of the Inspiron 11z. The new notebook has an 11.6-inch display running at 1,366 x 768, paired with Intel’s Celeron 723 1.2GHz processor, 2GB of RAM and a 250GB hard-drive. Thanks to stepping up to CULV rather than Intel’s Atom range, the 11z gets past the CPU/storage limitations the chip company insists upon; that should mean buyers get a more capable ultraportable for their money.
Someone needs to take Microsoft aside and tell them that sometimes the obvious penny savings still aren’t the ones to make. According to several GameStop employees, Microsoft have not only changed the packaging of the Xbox 360 Elite, but yanked the HDMI cables out of there too. In fact, they’ve made changes to the included accessories that – out of the box at least – limit new users to SD resolution graphics.
MSI have announced five new notebooks in its C-Series, the 16-inch WXGA CX600, CR600-013 and CR600-017, and the 17.3-inch WXGA++ CX700 and CR700. Each packs a Pentium Dual Core processor – the T4200 2.0GHz, aside from the CR600-017 which gets the slightly faster T4300 2.1GHz – together with 4GB of RAM and a 320GB hard-drive.
Since the Zune HD’s 480 x 272 OLED display isn’t actually high-enough resolution to display the 720p video the PMP is capable of, we’ve been waiting to see how much Microsoft charge for their official Zune HD AV Dock. That accessory – and the rest of of the Zune HD peripheral range – have finally been added to the Microsoft Store for preorder along with the touchscreen PMP itself.
Atlona Technologies have unveiled their next high-end AV connectivity gadgets, and if you’ve ever lamented the limitations of lengthy HDMI cords then the AT-HDS100SR and AT-HDS250SR may appeal. Each can take an HDMI input, stereo audio and RS-232 control signal and shuttle it over ethernet cable for up to 825ft.
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