Category: NetBook

Remember the Presto OS that we talked about few weeks back? Well, its new BETA is now finally available for download. After installing Presto, the next time you turn on your computer, you will the choice of running Presto OS or Windows OS.
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Information about two Z-series Atom processors was leaked today. One is 1.2GHz processor (Z515), which is extremely power-frugal and consumes just 1.4W when running at full power and as-little-as 0.65W when scaled back to 800MHz clock speed. However, with all  these fancy low number, you will have to bear with slower 400MHz system bus and a 100MHz slower graphics core.

The second Atom is the first one to achive 2GHz clock speed (Z550). Interestingly, it still consumes 2.4W of power which is same as consumed by the 1.86GHz version.

The Z515 will be targeted at the low-powered MIDs and low-cost netbooks. Onviously, the Z550 will be targeted towards hi-end netbooks.

[via electronista]

Shuttle, a Taiwan based company announced the X50. Hardware-wise the X50 is very similar to the general netbooks in the market right now, but not so similar from the outside. It comes with a huge 15.6-inch display with 1366×768 resolution. It comes with the mighty Atom A330 processor, 1 GB RAM and 160GB HDD. It also has a 1.3MP webcam

The screen is sadly, does not supports multi-touch. It comes with 3 USB ports. Regarding the OS, you have choice between XP home and Vista basic. Price is going to be near $500.

[shuttle] [via akihabaranews]

HP has made available the VGA cable for the mini 1000 series. The cable is modestly priced at $19.99 (excluding shipping charges). So, if you were planning to hook your mini 1000 to your big monitor, now you do so with the help of this accessory.

It is odd to see the manufactures coming with out with so important accessory months after the actual product’s release in the market. Nevertheless, atleast it is now available.

[LINK to hp website]

Super Talent’s 32GB, 64GB, and 128GB UltraDrive LE and 32GB, 64GB, 128GB and 256GB UltraDrive ME are immediately available in production volumes.  The UltraDrive LE is rated for a maximum sequential read speed of 230MB/sec and a maximum sequential write speed of 170MB/sec.  The UltraDrive ME is rated for a maximum sequential read speed of 200MB/sec and a maximum sequential write speed of 160MB/sec.

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According to ZDNet, Asus is planning to limit the number of choices regarding the storage options. What does this exactly mean? This means that during the launch of a certain model, it will then , e decided by ASUS which model will be offered in the country: SSD-based one or the HDD-based one.

Now, is it a good news? Well, the end-consumer should be given the choice to decide between the HDD or SSD. For example: I like that fact that the EEE 1000 series has SSD as option. There are many people who want the durability of SSD. At the same time, there may be many people who store a lot of data and will want to go for the HDD option. So, the choice should be there.

Adamo 13.4-inch notebook was launched yesterday by Dell, but a screenshot of the Dell’s support utility shows signs of the Adamo’s 9-inch version in the works.

If the 9-inch Adamo is really in the works, then will it also cost >$2000 just like the 13.4-inch Adamo? Is there a market for the premium netbooks? Well, after the immense success of the SONY VAIO P (see unboxing here), I cannot say ‘no’.

[via reghardware]

Opera has introduced a new concept called “Opera Turbo”. It is a server-side compression technique in which the Opera’s servers compress the web-pages and their elements before sending it to the client’s machine. It is axiomatic, the target market is not the people with the high broadband speeds. They won’t get much benefit out of this technology. The people who use slow internet connections and the people who are still trapped behind the slow EDGE and GPRS networks are going to the target market for the Opera.

Here is the screenshot of apothetech.com running inside the Opera Turbo. You can observe that the quality of graphics has been bumped down a lot in order to reduce the size of the overall website as much as possible.

One question that pops up on our minds whenever we hear about our data coming via third party servers is privacy. Opera promises to bypass the traffic whenever we are on SSL site. Also, they promise that they won’t be storing any information of the users.

So what does not work?

• animated GIFs do not work
• some flash content won’t work initially: You will have to click on the flash content to load it. This is a wise move by folks at Opera. Had they allowed the flash content to load automatically, it would have consumed a lot of bandwidth.

Remember the time, when every day we used to hear some browser claiming itself as the “world’s fastest web-browser”? Looks like the Opera is back in the game, at least for the people on-the-move.

Supports: Windows, Mac OS X and Linux/Unix

[download Opera Turbo]