The N510 11.6-inch netbook from Samsung that was recently leaked and powered by the NVIDIA Ion platform and an Intel Atom N-series CPU will be released sometime in July, DigiTimes reported on Monday. The netbook should be be powered by a 1.66GHz Atom processor, include 1GB of memory and house a 160GB hard drive. It will still ship with Windows XP, instead of Vista, despite Intel’s netbook rules that call for XP.
At the same time, because the new netbook will be larger than Intel’s restriction of a maximum of 10.2 inches, Intel has allegedly cancelled Samsung’s preferential pricing for its N270 Intel Atom CPUs. The chipmaker did the same when Lenovo launched its 12-inch netbook, the IdeaPad S12, in June.
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Samsung's 11.6-Inch Ion-Based Netbook Due July?
Samsung And Lenovo Break Netbook Mould
Both Samsung and Lenovo have broke Intel’s restrictions on what is allowed in and on a netbook, and Intel has cancelled the two vendor’s preferential pricing for the Intel Atom N270 processor, according to sources over at Digitimes.
So, what about both the 11.6” ASUS Eee PC 1101HA Seashell and the Acer Aspire One 751 mini-notebooks? Or the 12.1” Dell Mini 12 or Lenovo Ideapad S12? Did they get punished too? All these mini-notebooks are above the 10” limit and have Atom processors.
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Amex Digital 4x External And Slim Blu-Ray Recorder For Mac
You can now play and burn both Blu-rays and DVDs wherever you go with the Amex Digital BDR-S1/ BDR-T28 4x Blu-ray recorders for Mac. Available in black or white, these USB-powered Blu-ray burners support latest green ECO S.M.A.R.T that extends battery life more than 40% and STAT Drive with 30% faster data transfer rate.
The drives also adopt Quiet Drive Technology that reduces the noise level of audio and video recording or playback and the ad Research technology that compensates for warped discs. The Amex Digital BDR-S1/ BDR-T28 4x Blu-ray recorders are priced at $599 a pop.
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Sapphire Introduces Greener Packaging For Its Graphics Cards
Hoping to keep Earth as ‘green’ as possible, AMD partner Sapphire Technology has intensified its enviroment-protecting initiatives and has now introduced paper pulp trays as the inner packaging for a number of its graphics cards. These trays are made from recycled paper materials and can be recycled further, thus keeping material waste to a minimum. For now, the pulp trays are used for the company’s low- to mid-range offer, but the higher-end cards should also get them in the future (when, Sapphire won’t say yet)
Previously Sapphire has introduced outer boxes that are colored with environmentally friendly inks and are completely recyclable, so for a lot of cards, it uses a super-green package. Kudos and can we get an encore?
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FineDrive Voice 3.0 Speech Recognition-Enabled Navigation Device
FineDigital FineDrive Voice 3.0 Speech Recognition-Enabled Navigation Device
The FineDrive Voice 3.0 is the latest speech recognition-enabled navigation device from FineDigital for the Korean market. This portable device is based on SiRF Prima platform and adopts ETRI’s Fine SRTM 3.0 speech recognition engine, allowing you to control all the functions within the device through speech. Sadly, there’s no word on pricing so far.
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