Asus Flashes Deal With N20A

Asus announces the Asus N20A, as well as N50V and N80V. Concentrating back on the N20A though, it is a great deal for the price of $999 you can get these:

• Core 2 Duo T5800 (2.0GHz)
  
• 12.1" LCD 1280 x 800 (Glare-Type)
  
• 6-Cell Battery (12 Hours of Battery Life)
• Intel X4500HD
• up to 320GB HDD
• 4GB DDR2 RAM
• Bluetooth
  
• WiFi ABGN
• Gigabit LAN
  
• eSATA/HDMI
• 1.3MP Camera
• Optional 3/3.5G Mobile Broadband

Links Here:

• Laptoping
• ZipZoomFly
• Engadget
• Info for Asus N50V and N80V
  

Falcon Northwest Mach V Gaming Face Eater

Okay it is not called the Face Eater, but it might as well be with these specs:

• Intel Core i7 965 Processor
  
• 12GBs of RAM (WTF)
• Twin ATI Radeon 4870X2 2GB RAM on-board
• Blu-Ray/HD-DVD Drive
• Over a Terabyte of HD
• Liquid Cooling

I guess we might be running an Intel Core i7 theme this week...

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Intel Core i7 (Nehalem) X56 Chipset Is Here! AMD Your Move...

Intel's Brand Spanking New i7 is quite the beauty. Here's the run down, this new Processor is 45nm, Quad-Core, making a new socket called LGA1366 using L3 Cache.

There are three models released thus far:

• Core i7 920 at 2.66GHz
• Core i7 940 at 2.93GHz
  
• Core i7 965 at 3.2GHz

Basically the lowest end Intel Core i7 920 is as good as the Core 2 Extreme QX9770 and then continues to get its ass handed to it by the rest of the models. Though gaming performance has not improved and power consumption has increased a little due to the new power. It has improved performance, creates a new realm for newer models (lots of space for RAM with that new x56 chipset *12GBs of drool, who even needs that much RAM honestly*).

Take a look at all the reviews at Engadget which has a great round up of most of them...

Kingston and Intel team up to rape the SSD market

Kingston is teaming up with Intel to take down the SSD market, and put in some flash hard drives for laptops and servers. Look out Samsung, you better get Sandisk now or you'll be all left out at the SSD party =(

Check it at Engadget

Asus announces S101 Shmexier than ever

The new Asus S101 (not to be related with Eee), is a very big bang for your buck. S101 is comes with the following features:

• Windows XP or GNU Linux OS
• 10.2 inch LED Backlit TFT display, 1024 x 600 pixel resolution, 252k colours
• Intel Atom inside
• 802.11n Draft Wifi, Bluetooth 2.0
• Multi-Touch mouse pad
• 2450 mAH Battery built-in
  
• Colours are available in: brown, champagne, and graphite
  

I wish they had the more efficient bluetooth 2.1, and had a removable battery (that is quite a dissapointment).

Link Here

Intel's concept is quite beautiful and looks functional enough, this small 11-Inch (1,366 x 768) has a slide out keyboard, with an interesting mouse interface.

Check out the video:



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Intel Making A Big Impact on SSDs

Intel is going to be releasing Solid State Drives, in the following sizes: 32, 64, 80, and 160GB versions. Yes, I said it, 160GB SSD with bandwidth of 240MB/s (read) and 70-170 MB/s (write); A very nice spec for a nice big hard drive, sounds like a winner to me...except maybe you could tell us how much it is... oh wait that will probably ruin it.

More Info in the Link

Intel Nehalem has morphed into i7

Intel has announced the real name for the code named Intel Nehalem, rumored to contain anywhere from 2 to 8 cores.

I am not going to begin to comment on this i(insert name here) naming convention...

Though the i7 name's significance still puzzles some people, as long as the product delivers.

Link here

Intel Atom and Nano Platform Comparo duke it out

A review down by Tweak Town shows the benchmarks for the new Intel Atom and the Via Nano. You can have your own take on it but for the most part the Nano platform beats the Atom on low voltage, CPU usage for playback on video and can even run Crysis 6.95 frames better (or on average 15.26 fps) at 1024 x 768. So the battle for the UMPC processor goes on for these two, and we'll see who comes out on top when it comes to companies adapting their technology by next year.

On a side note, I was wondering what happened to AMD in this mobile PC business?