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Acer’s Aspire D255 Gets Dual Core N550 Processor
Aug 24th
Acer is joining the birage of netbooks that are meant to be hitting the streets next week with the dual-core Atom N550. The new processor is promising improved performance for games, video and other forms of multimedia entertainment. The Aspire One D255 is the first of Acer’s Netbooks to enjoy the juice boost.
The D255 will come equipped with a 10.1-inch screen, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity, a 250GB hard drive, and a six-cell rechargeable battery. All specs pretty much remain the same apart from access to 2GB of DDR3 RAM and the dual core processor. When this model will actually hit the streets is still unknow, we haven’t noticed it up for pre-order just yet but we’ll keep a keen eye out.
Samsung X125 Reviewed
Aug 19th
With the Samsung X125 selling in the UK (see Amazon) and parts of Europe (like Italy) we can expect some reviews to start coming in and indeed one is up on YouTube.
Modeblog.nl, a fashion centric blog out of the Netherlands has a review up. They loved the design and build quality but weren’t so keen on the very limited lid fold out range, how hot it gets (65 / 149 degrees) and the poor battery life (they got 2 hours web browsing at 50% brightness) with the 4-cell battery. A 6-cell battery should get you around 4 hours.
The Samsung X125 is an 11.6-inch notebook based on the AMD platform – an AMD Athlon II Neo K125 processor (single core, 1.7GHz), 2 – 3GB RAM, ATI Radeon HD 4225 graphics, 320GB HDD, Bluetooth 3.0, 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, HDMI, Windows 7 Home Premium and either a 4-cell or 6-cell battery. It comes in white with a matte lid and inner chassis. Glossy screen and bezel.
ASUS Eee PC 1015N To Launch In September?
Aug 17th
The next big thing in netbooks, after Nvidia ION 2 and Optimus technology, must surely be dual core processors – not desktop / nettop based ones but ones specifically for netbooks that need good battery life like the upcoming Atom N550 processor. One product confirmed with this processor is the ASUS Eee PC 1015N which we saw at Computex 2010.
No word on a release date back then but a post from Digitimes has an ASUS roadmap which shows a dual core Atom N550 10-inch netbook will be launched in September 2010, priced at $399. Sounds like the Eee PC 1015N to me.
A few other products are mentioned in this roadmap, of which we just heard about the other day. The 12-inch Eee Pad (should have Android but Windows Embedded Compact 7 is listed) will launch in either December or January next year priced at around $1,000, a 10-inch Eee Pad with Android will launch next year in March for under $399 and a 8.9-inch Eee Note with an ARM processor and Linux OS will launch in October priced at $199 – $299.
Source: Digitimes
