ZOTAC LAUNCHED NETTOPS WITH NVIDIA ION

Zotac, a company known for manufacturing graphics cards and motherboards, have launched a line of nettops running on Intel Atom processors and Nvidia ION graphics.

While one of the nettops, the Zotac Mag HD-NS01, features a 1.6GHz Intel Atom 230 processor, the Mag HD-ND01 has a 1.6GHz dual core Atom 330 processor. Other specifications are more or less the same for both nettops. Both devices are equipped with Nvidia ION graphics, 160GB hard drives, 2GB of RAM. Other features include Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n, 8-channel audio, Gigabit 10/100/1000 Ethernet, HDMI, eSATA, VGA output and 6 USB ports.

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NVIDIA ION NETBOOKS TO BE LAUNCHED SOON

Although Acer is all set to unveil the first NVIDIA Ion powered nettop PC, the Acer AspireRevo, netbooks with this technology is still a speculation.

While rumors have been circulating for a while about NVIDIA Ion packed netbooks with nothing concrete, pocket-lint.com has reported that a number of companies are getting ready to announce NVIDIA Ion powered netbooks as early as June and some of them are even all set to release these netbooks by July. However there was no indication of which companies will make the announcement and according to their source, “confirmed that there will be some big announcements from ‘key’ players at Computex, the annual PC trade show in Taipei at the beginning of June.”

With this technology, along with the standard Intel Atom chip the netbooks will use the brand new graphics chip from NVIDIA called ION which will allow users to handle more challenging applications than ever before. With NVIDIA ION, playing games like Spore or Portal and viewing 1080p content will be possible in a netbook. You can even get your hands on applications like Cooliris and access Google Earth which is not feasible with any of the current netbooks.

DELL INSPIRON 910 TO BE LAUNCHED THIS AUGUST

Dell on a major mind set to take up the prime portion of the laptop sector in the ever growing computer industry, ooh what a product they have summed up. The Dell Inspiron 910 whose Specification details are leaked. Information on the Dell Inspiron 901 has been revealed. Specs on the Dell Inspiron 910 have been leaked is the news that is spreading like wild fire. The Inspiron Mini will sprint on an Atom N270 at 1.6GHz with an incorporated Intel 945 chipset. In adding together, there will be 800MHz DDR2 RAM, 8.9" LCD, 3 USB ports, 0.3/1.3 webcam, 3-in-1 card reader, and a mass of 2.2 lbs. The structure will run either Ubuntu 8.04 or Windows XP, and will be on the loose August 22nd. No word on pricing.

ATI MOBILITY RADEON HD 3000 SERIES OF GRAPHICS ACCELERATOR CARDS LAUNCHED

The first set of laptops with the newly-launched ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3000 series of graphics accelerator cards have shored up in the U.S. Toshiba and Asus are rendering the HD 3650 in their variants of P305 and M50Sa laptops correspondingly. The HD 3650 is powered between 512MB to 1GB of memory, 120 rivulet processors, and a 128-bit memory border. Toshiba is also proffering the budget-adjusted laptop HD 3470 with 40 stream processors and a 64-bit memory interface in the P305 variant. AMD is also setting up to reveal the Mobility Radeon HD 3850 and HD 3870 graphics accelerator cards and even the dual-core variants (presumably HD 3850 X2 and HD 3870 X2); the single-core variants will feature 320 stream processor units and 256-bit memory interfaces (expected to be doubled on the dual-core variants).