Asus Eee PC 1215N is a premium Netbook and the chassis is a bit bigger than what you normally get on standard Netbooks. But if you are expecting some extra connections and ports, you will be disappointed. On the bright side, there is 2 GB RAM. The performance of this Netbook is certainly better than competition due to the presence of Intel dual-core Atom processor, Nvidia's Ion GPU and the Optimus graphics switching technology. This is not the first system in the market to have a dual-core Intel Atom processors, but it is certainly the first one to feature the new D525 CPU. We will be soon seeing the Intel Atom 550 processor later. In my lab tests, this Netbook indeed turned out to be faster than other products in the competition. Asus Eee PC 1215N doesn’t come with plenty of options but that is hardly something to complain about in a Netbook. Besides, the performance is better than a standard Netbook. I have seen a couple of Netbooks with AMD Neo processor and the performance of  [...]

You have to be really careful while making notebooks; they need to have the correct balance of power and battery life. Faster computers have small battery life where as the ones with plenty of battery juice is relatively slower. One such laptop which balances the speed and battery life really well is the Samsung Q330. Cost of this laptop is £600 and if you think there are big compromises done in order to keep the price low, you are wrong. The body is made of plastic and the brushed metallic finish gives it a high end look. This laptop weighs just two kilograms so you won’t have any problems carrying it around. The rear part of the Q330 is thicker than the front end and this is done to give good ergonomics while typing for long hours. Samsung Q330 has great build quality and this gives you a secure feeling when you carry it. I tried to test the screen and was glad to see that there are no ripples on the screen unless I pressed on it really hard. There are no cheap  [...]

When it comes to Netbooks, the specifications are pretty much fixed now and you also get all the basic functionality that you’d yearn for in a computer. Components in standard Netbooks include ten inch screen, Intel Atom N450 processor, Windows 7 Starter, and 1 GB RAM. The price too is really affordable at $299 and it is good as long as you limit the tasks to basic things like Websurfing and typing. But there have been a lot of Netbooks which try to give something better than the standard specs list but also cost a bit more. Gateway LT3201u is one such Netbook. It has an 11.6 inch screen with AMD Athlon Neo II K125 CPU. The processor is single core but the performance of a Neo processor is believed to be better than the Atom ones. I conducted a few lab tests for this and found that it was indeed true. The Gateway LT3201u also features ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4225 graphics which is not a discrete graphics card but the performance is still better than those Intel graphics  [...]

You got to love the way the way Razer names it products. This company has been working hard for the past three years for mechanical keyboards. They didn’t want to make those traditional keyboards which give you a feeling of fatigue during long hours of typing. The latest products from Razer - BlackWidow Ultimate and BlackWidow provide a solution to this problem, to some extent. These two keyboards were launched yesterday at Gamescom and the company says that the buttons pressing experience is similar to that of a mouse click. This keyboard is made for gamers who get frustrated when they miss even a single keystroke. The best part about this keyboard is that it offers a set of programmable keys which can be used to launch any applications of your choice. There are also five dedicated keys for gaming and the Ultimate edition gives you five levels of backlighting, a USB port and 3.5 mm jacks for both microphone and audio. These two products will be out by next month. The price of the base  [...]

Dell is thinking about buying the storage specialist company – 3Par for a sum of $1.15 billion. Dell is buying it in order to boost is cloud offerings. 3Par was started in 1999 and the company has been quite successful in offering virtualized arrays for storage. They are designed for helping out businesses to treat storage as utility which means you need to pay only for the capacity that the businesses are going to use. The offerings here include data management features like thin provisioning and dynamic tiering for the multitenant environments of cloud computing. Apart from the 3Par’s abilities, Dell says this acquisition is done to help their customers to reduce the cost of overall data management by fifty percent. Dell is thinking about buying the entire 3Par outstanding common stock for a cash payment of $18 per share. Dell wants to close this acquisition by this years end. Directors of both 3Par and Dell have approved this deal. Dell  [...]

Asus announced two Eee Pad tablets at Computex this year and amongst the two, the EP101TC is getting redesigned software to keep up with the technology updates. The device is going to be launched somewhere in 2011 and there is a lot of hard work being put in to make this project a successful one. This device was thought to run on Microsoft’s Windows Embedded Compact 7 which is a good OS but Asus has dumped it for Google Android. Right now, Asus is working on the prototypes with Froyo but the company hasn’t ruled out using Android 3.0 aka Gingerbread. The device will be shown at CES 2011 first and Asus will then reveal the launch date. We are really exicted to see what these Eee pads have to offer in the tablet market which is dominated by Apple’s iPad and Dell Streak. The former is doing quite well in the market and the sales have been really impressive. The iPad is still selling like hot cakes even though it has been months since the device was first released in the market.

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