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Alienware M11x brings gaming to netbooks, will kill many zombies
Jan 10th
Sure, you can play games on your netbook if you can stand the tiny screen and keyboard, tinny sounds (if on speakers) and lower framerate. There’s even a list compiled just for you. But if you’re into serious stuff, no one is more serious on gaming than Alienware.
While it looks like a netbook, the Alienware M11x packs some serious heat.
- Intel CULV Core 2 Duo
- 11.6″ 1366 x 768 screen
- Switchable NVIDIA GT335M
- 1GB RAM
- WiFi
- VGA Port
- ethernet LAN
- HDMI out
- mini Firewire port
- Displayport output
- 2 x headphone and 1 x mic port
- Multicard Reader
- 3 x USB
- Backlit customizable keyboard
- 6-cell battery at 6.5 hours battery life for integrated graphics, 2.5 hours max if you use the graphics card.
- Weight: around 4 lbs.
- Colors: Black or Gray.
That’s some beefy specs right there and you can play games at 30fps on 720P. It even has ports so you can output to a bigger LCD screen and the host of USB ports is just screaming for gaming peripherals. If you’re looking for a new notebook but don’t care for a big package, you might want to try this out. It’ll be available by March 2010 for under $1000, which means $999 basically.
source gizmodo
A post from the Asus Eee PC blog.
Alienware M11x brings gaming to netbooks, will kill many zombies
NVIDIA Ion 2 on a mini-PCIe card might be possible, but pointless
Dec 22nd
Some people might rave at the possibility that you could add NVIDIA’s Ion 2 via a mini-PCIe card to existing netbooks, but this writer doesn’t. Don’t get me wrong, I once enjoyed gaming on my netbooks too, but to have this sort of Frankenstein solution isn’t just irritating, it’s also rather pointless.
A couple of sites are theorizing that NVIDIA could release the Ion 2 as an add-on card that connects to a mini-PCIe card slot, and while it might be an interesting possibility, you have to ask yourself, is all the trouble of dismantling a netbook and attaching the addon card really worth it (and that’s before you consider the fact that this instantly voids your warranty)? What clear purpose will an aftermarket NVIDIA Ion 2 addon have especially on netbooks that run Intel’s new Pineview processors, with integrated graphics and memory controllers?
I realize some people want to enjoy HD video playback on their netbooks with 10-inch screens, and play some of the latest games at the lowest quality settings possible, but you have to admit that this is all very pointless. HD video playback? Mobile gaming? You can do both of these without the extra expense and hassle, easily. And if you want to be stubborn, let me remind you that the bundled battery on any netbook available today will not last you more than a single movie or a couple of levels in Call of Duty 4. And then when the battery runs out, you won’t be able to use the netbook for any other purpose whatsoever. So, why would anyone want any of those on any netbook again?
A post from the Asus Eee PC blog.
NVIDIA Ion 2 on a mini-PCIe card might be possible, but pointless
Asus selling iMac clone with netbook core
Nov 5th
I’m sure everyone knows those design-award-winning Apple iMac computers that look like just a flat panel LCD and keyboard standing on your desk, but contain a whole macintosh… Now Asus has realized the advantages of such a design and is selling a computer-inside-an-LCD too. The “Asus eeeTop ET1602″ has about the same specs as the average eeePC 1000H netbook (making guesses about the interior of this device very easy), namely intel Atom N270 clocked to 1.6GHz, 533MHz Frontside Bus, 1GB DDR2 RAM, the rather weak Intel 945G graphics chipset, 160GB SATA-II harddisk (spinning at only 5400rpm), connectivity is provided by 802.11 b/g/n wifi, bluetooth and 1000MBit LAN, the thing has a 1.3MP webcam and built-in stereo microphone – and so far, I could just as well have read the description from the package of my eee1000H instead, without any difference…
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