MSI Wind U120 – Now in Gray/Black

The not-very-upgrade-friendly 10.1″ MSI Wind U120 has received a minor update. Namely, instead of the original black and white color scheme, it’s now available in gray and black. The model # is U120-001US and the product number is # 9S7-N03112-001. It’s available for $429.99, and … Read more

Dell Starts up Adamo by Dell Campaign

Dell is starting up an advertising campaign for their upcoming 13″ Dell Adamo, a high-end ultra-thin laptop designed to compete with the Apple MacBook Air and Voodoo Envy 133. They are putting quite a bit of emphasis on the design of the Adamo itself. The … Read more

NVIDIA Ion – Certified for Vista, Runs Windows 7

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There was a joint press conference held today in Taipei, Taiwan between Microsoft and NVIDIA, showcasing the new NVIDIA Ion platform for netbooks/nettops and other ultraportable or low-power devices. It was hosted by NVIDIA’s general managers for their MCP and notebook business units, and involved Microsoft’s Senior Director for OEMs and Senior Manager for the Windows client business group. It was announced that the Ion platform (NVIDIA’s GeForce 9400M graphics chipset and Intel’s Atom CPU) has been officially certified by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows Vista Premium.

NVIDIA also showed off the Ion running Microsoft Windows 7. Existing chipsets (namely the Intel 945G) do not fully support DirectX 10 and other graphics features, while the Ion platform/chipset is able to handle them very well. In fact, the demonstration involved running a full 1080p move in the background while NVIDIA was giving the Powerpoint demonstration. They also described being able to encode/transcode video in the background while watching HD video. They also demonstrated “Left 4 Dead” running in 720p video (the game is very graphics-intensive).

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HP to Offer Three Windows 7 Versions on Future Mini Line

In an interview given to Computerworld last week, Kyle Thornton a manager for HP’s business notebooks mentioned that future models of the HP Mini series will have up to three different versions of Windows 7 available. The versions available will be: Windows 7 Starter (only … Read more