Small and “cheap” netbooks becoming even more expensive. Even that the sale of netbooks constantly grows, from the buyers came surprising fact that they are dissatisfied.
Japanese Sharp for the end of May preparing interesting netbook line Mebius. Hardware itself has been a classic combination of Atom N270/945GSE, one or two gigabytes of memory and 160-GB SATA disk.
Diagonal screen is 10.1 inch (WSVGA) and there are standard options of connecting wire, wireless network (including Bluetooth 2.1), a memory card reader [...]
Manufacturer of computer power supply SilverStone announced that the new series of Strider power supply was certified as 80Plus, which means that all power supplies thus certified for the regimes of work of 20%, 50% and 100% load, provides a minimum efficiency of 80% or greater.
Lite-On in Europe has introduced an internal Blu-ray drive iHES208. The device connects to the computer via SATA interface and besides reading Blu-ray media can write data to a DVD or CD media.
As DigiTimes writes, Foxconn will become the manufacturer of e-book reader. The company is a manufacturer Amazon Kindle 2, but according to recent allegations on the market, they could jump with its own model. Sources close to the company claim that Foxconn has recently hired a few engineers with experience in the development of e-reader. [...]
Corsair introduced new SSD S256, successor of model S128. Except twice larger capacity of its predecessor, a new model is considerably faster (more then twice).
They still use Samsung MLC NAND flash memory, but the advanced controller and 64 MB cache are responsible for the benefits that the new model brings.
The first generation of Atom processor was introduced a year ago. One year after presenting the first-generation of Atom processor, Intel on the IDF in Beijing has officially announced two new models for MID devices. These are Atom processors Z515 and Z550 which has already been speaking.
Atom Z515 runs on 1.2 GHz on Intel Technology [...]
In the beginning of the April Intel introduced redesagned logos for the label of its processors and also a new way of marking performance.
New design of the logo is in the form of the rectangle, which in the upper right corner has a picture of the silicon chip, while thru the full-length is printed name [...]



