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Shuttle announces new power-saving Nettop with SUSE Linux Operating System

Steven Grady, Apr 17th 2009 Discuss [0]

Shuttle has announced a new duel-core nettop for consumers: the X270V. The box is running SUSE Linux on Intel dual-core Atom 330 CPU's with each core clocked at 1.6 GHz. The machine can hold up to 2GB of DDR2, and offers users one of the smallest footprints of any nettop computer. Read The Full Story

Acer AspireRevo: NVIDIA Ion 1080p nettop

Chris Davies, Apr 8th 2009 Discuss [0]

We knew it as the Acer Hornet, but the company has now officially announced their NVIDIA Ion-based nettop, the Acer AspireRevo. A compact 7.1 x 7.1 x 1.2-inch diamond, the AspireRevo pairs Intel's 1.6GHz Atom 230 or dual-core Atom 330 processor with the graphics company's Blu-ray 1080p-capable Ion GPU, which they claim is a match good enough to play games like Call of Duty 4 and Spore, together with DirectX 10 content. Read The Full Story

NVIDIA Ion landing Q2 2009

Chris Davies, Apr 2nd 2009 Discuss [0]

NVIDIA are promising that the first Ion-based netbooks and notebooks will begin shipping this quarter. To celebrate that fact, the company has been gathering up its developer friends to talk about the strengths of the 1080p-capable platform. NVIDIA Ion video after the cut Read The Full Story

Acer Hornet Ion-nettop launching April 8th?

Chris Davies, Apr 1st 2009 Discuss [0]

Hot on the heels of the Acer Hornet leak earlier comes word from industry sources that the company plans to launch the NVIDIA Ion-based nettop in Beijing on April 8th. Previously the compact PC - which uses an Intel Atom 230 processor paired with NVIDIA's high-definition capable graphics chipset - was estimated to launch at some point in Q2 2009. Read The Full Story

MSI Wind Top AE1900 gets hands-on

Chris Davies, Apr 1st 2009 Discuss [0]

MSI's Wind Top AE1900 touchscreen all-in-one had its official launch yesterday, and already we're seeing the first hands-on reports. Section Addiction caught up with the 18.5-inch nettop, going so far as to check out its power demands, fan noise, and the possibility of 1080p on the Atom-based PC. Read The Full Story

Acer Hornet 1080p Ion nettop specs leak

Chris Davies, Apr 1st 2009 Discuss [2]

The Acer Hornet NVIDIA Ion-based nettop we spotted back in February has just had an extra shot of authenticity, in the shape of an SKU sheet detailing the three different versions planned. Designed to grip tenaciously to the back of a flatscreen display, the Hornet supports 1080p playback, HDMI and, in the Media Center incarnation, a Wiimote-style wireless controller. Full spec breakdown after the cut. Read The Full Story

MSI Wind Top AE1900 touchscreen nettop official

Chris Davies, Mar 31st 2009 Discuss [0]

MSI have officially announced their latest touchscreen nettop all-in-one, the MSI Wind Top AE1900. First spotted on the company's Japanese site back in February, the 18.5-inch nettop has a single-core Intel Atom 230 processor, up to 2GB of RAM and a 160GB hard-drive, together with a DVD burner. Read The Full Story

ASUS Eee Keyboard video touchscreen demo

Chris Davies, Mar 24th 2009 Discuss [1]

ASUS' Eee Keyboard remains one of the more interesting diversions in the Eee PC line-up, and in advance of the all-in-one media PC's June launch we're scouting out all the video of it we can. UMPC Portal caught up with the Eee Keyboard back at CeBIT and gave us a good all-round video overview. Video hands-on after the cut Read The Full Story

Shuttle X50 touchscreen Atom 330 nettop gets official

Chris Davies, Mar 18th 2009 Discuss [0]

Shuttle have officially announced the X50 All-in-One touchscreen nettop, the company's Atom-based rival to the ASUS Eee Top and MSI Wind Neton. First seen back in January, the Shuttle X50 has a 15.6-inch 1366 x 768 16:9 resistive touchscreen, Intel's Atom 330 dual-core processor and 1GB of memory. Read The Full Story

IBASE IB888 nettop fits in 3.5″ drive; Intel boost Atom expectations

Chris Davies, Mar 17th 2009 Discuss [0]

IBASE have announced a new single-board computer, the IBASE IB888, fitting the Intel Atom processor into a unit the size of a 3.5-inch drive. The launch comes as Intel reportedly adjusts its target shipments to suggest 52-percent of all Intel-powered entry-level desktops will be Atom based by the end of Q4 2009. Read The Full Story

Mouse Computer Lm-M110S dual-core Atom nettop

Chris Davies, Mar 13th 2009 Discuss [0]

Mouse Computer are better known around these parts for their DVD burner-toting netbook, but the Japanese company also has a nettop range. Latest of the diddy-desktops is this, the Mouse Computer Lm-M110S, based on Intel's dual-core Atom 330 processor, 2GB of RAM and a 320GB hard-drive. Read The Full Story

MSI Wind Nettop CS120: superfrugal plus DVD burner

Chris Davies, Mar 12th 2009 Discuss [0]

MSI have announced a new, eco-friendly version of their Wind Nettop, the MSI Wind Nettop CS120. The CS120 measures just 11.1 x 9.45 x 2.56 inches but manages to include a slot-load DVD burner, Intel Atom 230 1.6GHz processor, 160GB hard-drive and 1GB of memory (maximum 2GB). Read The Full Story