From Liliputing:
Buffalo has been selling 32GB and 64GB solid state disks that you can use to replace the low capacity disks that come with netbooks like the Asus Eee PC 901 for a while. Now the company is going a step further by offering a USB enclosure for its line of Eee PC 901 SSDs.
The idea is that you can plug in the USB module and copy an image of your internal SSD to the new module before swapping it out. When you’re done, you can keep your old 16GB SSD as extra storage by sticking it into the enclosure.
If you’re interested, you can check it out here.
ARM has launched its new Sparrow multicore chips aimed at netbooks.
Sparrow is a small, inexpensive chip which shares its instruction set with ARM’s top-of-the-line Cortex A8 product, the chip used by the Palm Pre. While one Sparrow chip has about the power of an existing ARM11 (the chip in Apple’s iPhone and other leading smartphones), Sparrow can also be used in a multi-core setup to multiply performance.
The Cortex-A9 can deliver around 1500 DMIPS of processing capability per core, with up to four cores, according to an ARM presentation. (DMIPS are a measure of processor performance based on repeated integer calculations.) That’s at least triple the computing power of the ARM11 processors found in the iPhone and T-Mobile G1. The first public Cortex-A9 demo is coming from Silicon Partners at this show, running a multiprocessing-capable version of the Symbian OS.
Finally, netbooks can be just as powerful as bigger laptops! I can’t express how excited I am for this development.
Portable Monkey has compared and contrasted the Eee PCs S101, S101H, and 1002HA. And this is what he has to say about the three netbooks:
The similarities of all three ASUS Eee PC S101, S101H and 1002HA can be confusing and honestly, I can’t see a point to the S101H. The S101H is as we know, “the S101 but with a hard disk drive, instead of an solid state disk” but it’s actually half way between the S101 and the 1002HA. The differences are all so minimal though and don’t amount to much. I would either stick to the 1002HA and save money, or go for complete mobility and battery life with the S101. The S101H is in the middle, no man’s land…
The new Intel Atom N280 processor with the GN40 chipset is now available. That means we’ll be seeing the new processor on newer netbooks in the future.
According to Liliputing:
The new CPU has a top clock speed of 1.66GHz, which makes it a tiny bit faster than the Intel Atom N270 CPU which tops out at 1.6GHz. But the real news is that the GN40 chipset is designed to add better support for 720p HD videos than you get with the current Intel 945GSE chipset thanks to a hardware based video decoder.
SuperTalent is offering new SSDs for the Eee PC S101. The flash memory is embedded on a mini-PCIe board and can be had in three different capacities: 16GB, 32GB, or 64GB. Super Talent says that regardless of the capacity, each module offers maximum read and write speeds of 90MBps and 55MBps, respectively.
Liliputing has found the newest Eee product: a low power home media server.
It sports a 1.6GTHz Intel Atom N270 CPU, 2GB of RAM, a 512MB flash ROM which probably holds the Linux-based operating system, and up to 4TB of storage thanks to 2 HDD bays.
The D200 supports 6 channel HD audio, has a DVI output, and serves as an 802.11n router. It also has a slot-loading DVD-RW drive, and even has a 3.5″ LCD touchscreen on the front which should allow you to access your media without a keyboard and without even flipping on a monitor.
This awesome Eee 1000H mod is done by one Netbook News.de reader to keep his netbook fingerprint and smudge free.
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EeeUser has reported that some Eee 1000H screens crack under “low stress situations”.
The second user added to the thread this past week, reporting a similar incident and posting a picture. Apparently, it worked fine the night before, but the next morning was already cracked when opened. The crack is not seen on the outside- there is no damage to the front of the screen or the back of the lid.
Has anyone else out there had any incidents like this, or do you think they are just incidental incidents?
