http://www.deliton.org Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:56:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en HP has announced that it will launch a series of Windows 7 tablets this fall. But while the HP Slate had originally been designed as a consumer oriented device, it looks like HP is now targeting the HP Slate 500 as a device for enterprise customers. There are still no details ... http://www.deliton.org/2010/07/hp-says-windows-7-slates-due-this-fall-for-enterprise-customers/ The Asus Eee PC 1215N is about as powerful as any Intel Atom powered notebook can hope to be. It has a dual core Atom D525 processor and NVIDIA ION 2 graphics, which means it should be able to support multitasking duties as well as HD video playback. You can ... http://www.deliton.org/2010/07/asus-eee-pc-1215n-reviewed/ As the parade of Android tablets continues, China’s SmartDevices has introduced a new 7 inch tablet called the T7. The basic model features WiFi only, while a T7-3G version will also be available with… you guessed it, a 3G module. Both versions feature 7 inch touchscreen displays and 720MHz ARM11-based processors. ... http://www.deliton.org/2010/07/smartdevices-introduces-t7-android-tablet/ The Viliv N5 is kind of what you’d get if you crossed an Intel Atom powered netbook with… something smaller. Basically, this little guy has all the specs of a relatively mundane 10 inch netbook, but packed into a device with a 4.8 inch display that’s small enough to fold ... http://www.deliton.org/2010/07/viliv-n5-handheld-mini-notebook-now-shipping-in-the-us/ Taiwanese notebook manufacturers are taking the first steps toward developing a set of standards for notebook power supply units. DigiTimes reports that Acer and Asus, as well as OEMs such as Quanta, Compal, Wistron, Pegatron, and Inventec all support the idea. Between them, these companies are responsible for the production ... http://www.deliton.org/2010/07/standardized-notebook-power-supplies-could-be-on-the-way/ Two things occurred to me recently. First, I haven’t run a giveaway contest in a while. And second, I picked up a couple of items at a recent event that I’d prefer not to keep for myself, since I try not to take anything of value from companies that I ... http://www.deliton.org/2010/07/lenovo-thinkpad-earphones-plus-a-usb-flash-drive/ Left: Acer Aspire 721 / Right: Acer Aspire 521  Let’s be honest. The Acer Aspire 521 doesn’t look all that different from most other 10 inch netbooks Acer has released so far this year. What’s different about this model is that it’s one of the first with an AMD processor ... http://www.deliton.org/2010/06/acer-aspire-521-has-a-1-7ghz-amd-athlon-2-neo-k125-processor-and-ati-radeon-hd-4225-graphics/ Open source media player VLC is known as a Swiss Army knife of video players. It can handle pretty much any DRM-free video format you can throw at it, from WMV to MKV, with a little H.264, Xvid and DiVX thrown in for good measure. The folks behind VLC just ... http://www.deliton.org/2010/06/vlc-1-1-media-player-supports-hardware-video-acceleration/ The original OLPC XO Laptop sparked the netbook revolution by showing that laptops could be tiny, cheap, and still pretty useful. But the laptop also broke the mold in a few other ways, by using a spill and dust resistant membrane keyboard, a durable plastic frame, and an innovative user ... http://www.deliton.org/2010/06/olpc-xo-1-5-now-makes-the-innovative-sugar-os-interface-optional/ Toshiba is giving its 10 inch netbooks a slight spec bump today, by introducing models with support for DDR3 memory. First up is a new version of the Toshiba NB305, which has a new 1.66GHz Intel Atom N455 processor and 1GB of DDR3 memory. Like its predecessors, this mini-laptop comes with ... http://www.deliton.org/2010/06/toshiba-introduces-updated-10-inch-netbooks/