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Looks like Asus is following the footsteps of its Taiwanese competitor. Just after revealing its 15.6-inch Eee Top, Jerry Shen, the CEO of Asustek says that 20-inch and 22-inch Eee Tops have already been outsourced and will reach the markets by the first half of 2009.
The rest of the details are yet to be [...]

 
Just after the introduction of MSI Wind Nettops, Asus has also jumped in the fray with their Eee Top all-in-one computer. Contrary to a report by PC World, Asus revealed only one Eee Top, the ET1602. The configuration includes a 15.6-inch touchscreen display, Intel Atom N270 processor, 1GB RAM, 160GB HDD, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n, 1.3 [...]

 
As expected, Samsung has started the production of its 2.5-inch 256GB SSDs. The read/write rates also seem to increase from the previous 200/160 MB/sec to 220/200 MB/sec. Based on the multi-level cell (MLC) technology, Samsung claims the SSD to be as fast as a 15,000 RPM HDD without the “noise, size, power and heating [...]

 
Fujitsu Japan today announced a new line of 2.5-inch drives. The new MBD2 RC and MBE2 RC series boast a speed of 10,025 and 15,000 RPM and Fujitsu claims that these drives are 60% faster than the current set of 2.5-inch drives. The drives use perpendicular magnetic recording, support 6GB/s SAS (Serial-attached SCSI) that allows [...]

 
With the announcement of this new graphics card, Nvidia has really broken the barriers of visual computing. The Quadro FX 5800 is not aimed at gamers but instead it will benefit people into CAD and DCC content. The card packs a whopping 4GB of GDDR3 memory along with 240 CUDA parallel processing cores and massive [...]

 
Intel announced that their next generation processors, Core i7 (Nehalem) will be released on 17th of this month. Intel touts Core i7 as the fastest processor on the planet and it is rightly so. Who would have thought Core i7’s entry-level processor will beat Intel’s high-end Core 2 Quad processor hands down?
Intel also confirmed [...]

 
Samsung’s SDI division showed up their latest display creation to woo attendees at the FPD International 2008 Expo. They demonstrated a 0.05mm thick 4-inch OLED display hung in the air to make it flutter from the breeze. Samsung has named it as Flapping Display and it is so thin that even a light breeze from [...]

 
With Apple in the customer list of Nvidia for GeForce 9400M chipset, it was expected that other notebook vendors would jump in too. Companies like Asustek, HP and Acer have inked a deal with Nvidia to sell them MCP79 boards with GeForce 9400M chipset onboard. These companies are yet to sell their 9400M notebooks but [...]

 
AMD is turning on the heat with its onslaught of graphics cards. First, they announced two pocket friendly cards and now a mid-range high-definition GPU aimed to take on NVIDIA’s GeForce 9800GT. AMD has made the card pretty identical in features but gives an edge to its offering than 9800GT.
HD 4830 hails from the 4800 [...]

 
Apple released a couple of new advertisements from its ‘Get a Mac’ campaign. Needless to say, the potshot taken at PC is amazing, especially in the second Bean Counter ad. Hit the play button for a chuckle.