This combination is slightly deviated from the general grip as Atom nettop is usually paired with the Intel chipset. But Asrock’s “disobedient” makes sense, because our tests have proved Asrock 330 Ion better performance than other nettop.

This success is probably what makes Asrock released Ion 330 with “BD” appendage. BD means BluRay, which suggests that the BD series is equipped with the BluRay optical devices. The price itself is around U.S. $ 485, or U.S. $ 130 more expensive than the plain version. However, given the current BluRay Player price, this device could be a replacement device for a real BluRay Player.

Moreover, the facilities provided by this device is similar to BluRay Player. At the rear, you’ll find an HDMI connector to connect to today’s television. Another alternative, VGA-Out facility is available so that it can also be connected to a regular monitor. Unfortunately in this Asrock 330 Ion Component Out there is no facility that can not be connected to a standard television.

However, our expectation to make Ion 330 as a substitute for BluRay Player is seeing constraints on the software. First, Ion 330 delivered without any operating system. Inside its CD no BluRay movie player software provided. So to play a BluRay movie, you have to buy an operating system and appropriate software. Linux is also not an option because BluRay Player software for Linux still needs much improvement.

If these two software issues can be resolved, Ion-BD 330 can indeed be a substitute BluRay Player. We prove it by connecting this 1.7 kg device to B6000 Samsung LCD TV using HDMI. The film “No Country For Old Man” is running smooth in Full HD resolution (1920×1080). We also can play HD-1080p video without halting. This is special because you can not do that on an Intel chipset-based nettop that dominate today’s market.

Outside of his BluRay ability, Ion 330-BD has standard nettop facilities. In addition to HDMI, on the rear panel are available 6 USB ports, gigabit ethernet, SPDI-F Out. While for storing data, hard drive with 320GB capacity is attached. One thing regrettable is the absent of WiFi facility to connect to a wireless network at home.

With tiny design and glossy appearance, 330-BD Ion Asrock fit very well in the family room, side by side with your HD television. Moreover, this device is very silent in operation. But this combination of hardware and software require funds $ 600, so it is still more expensive than regular BluRay Player. However, because the Asrock 330 Ion-BD is a computer that can also be used to type, connected to the internet, and store data, the device still has a value to consider.

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In addition, With the BB Media player you can play video or music file type xvid codec, WMV3, MPEG4, audio codec with .3 gp, MP3, WMA9 (.wma / .asf) and MIDI-based pet through the headset 3.5 mm audio jack. In addition, the camera features 3.2 MP who supported video recording, flash, and 2x digital zoom allows you to capture the best moments. Unfortunately, with a screen that measures just 2.44 inches, you will not be too happy to enjoy a picture or video on Bold screen.

3.2 MP camera with flash features produce good quality pictures. Synthetic leather dressings on the battery cover adds an elegant impression.

Another change is on its trackpad which became optical-based, same as we see in Gemini. This is like answering a complaint that the user does not like the performance on the Bold trackball. Thanks to this optical-based trackpad, you can surf the screen and quickly access the applications. While for the keyboard, its size in Onyx somewhat smaller than the Bold, so a little difficult for a user who has big thumb.

It is understandable if the Onyx keyboard size is slightly smaller. Because in order to bring an elegant and powerful impression, RIM trim Onyx’s dimensions of it so it is more slender and lighter than Bold. Wrapped with plastic cassing solid black glossy titanium chrome and color list to make them look sexy. The impression was blended with synthetic leather wrapping on the battery cover to give an impression of elegance.

Micro USB port is used to recharge the battery as well as transfer files. Whereas to enjoy the audio, 3.5-inch audio jack is available.

Another advantage is in the system features. Powered with 624 MHz processor, 256 MB of internal memory, external MicroSD slot and the addition of up to 16 GB, Onyx offers high responsiveness. Support from the Blackberry OS v5.0.0.311 offers faster access and more diverse choice of applications. For connection capabilities, Onyx using the connection quad-band UMTS / HSDPA 2100/1900/850/800 MHz, with the addition of Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g and Bluetooth v2.1 to support the comfort of your communication.

Another facility is also enhanced in the browser, so you can more conveniently access the websites that use Javascript. However, it remains the default browser’s capabilities are still losing some notch when compared to Opera Mini.

Bold era has passed, it’s time for Onyx to fill the top-class smartphone market. Although considered a bit expensive, but with the sophistication and elegance of its design, the BlackBerry Bold Onyx 9700 is worthy to be given the title as The Best Blackberry Ever Been Made.

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TouchPortal itself is a unique interface. To open it, you need to pull scraps of paper shaped area on the desktop. When that is done, open family room-shaped interface. And then we can see a variety of menus with different icons that represented a unique and creative software. For example, media player is represented by a display of the CD player, image viewer as photo-shaped patches, as well as Internet Explorer with IE-logo. If you want to play a song, you simply pull the CD-shaped icon to the main screen and all of your songs collection contained in a notebook will be posted. Really creative.

But frankly, we were not too eager to try this notebook touch. Because, we have tried several notebook with touch screen and is often frustrated with the lack of precision and responsiveness. But this notebook was able to lure us. Aspire 5738PG touch-screen able to provide good responsiveness, since it has support for multi-touch. Problem of precision is still a occured because we need to press several times to select the Close button. But the majority of the finger movement is detected by the screen so the touch screen experience feels good; best of all touch notebooks we’ve ever try.

Even so, there is one question that still propping: what’s the point of having touch notebook? Moreover, Aspire 5738PG is not a tablet PC screen which can be folded and positioned like a notebook. It remains in the form of the notebook so our hand must hang around when touching the screen which was exhausting. In addition, the screen lever is less robust to hold the touch, so the screen will fall little by little when pressed.

Outside the touch screen capabilities, Acer Aspire 5738PG notebook is also true reliable power. Using Intel Core 2 Duo processor P8700 (2.53 GHz) assisted with 800MHz 4GB DDR2 memory, this notebook’s performance looks very rushed. In addition, this notebook uses the ATI Mobility Radeon HD4570 with 512MB memory, which allows this notebook to play today’s games. Endurance of the batteries are not too long, but fair for high-powered notebook like this.

From the facility side, this notebook performed quite complete thanks to the presence of HDMI, fingerprint scanner, card reader, 8X DVD Writer, gigabit ethernet, camera, and 4 USB ports. Even if there are less is the absence of external SATA ports.

Call us old-fashioned, but the truth is the touch screen is not the facilities that we desire from a notebook. But fortunately Acer Aspire 5738PG attraction is not just a touch screen, and this is what fits in our. With the price of US $ 1,299, this notebook has the performance and facilities are highly competitive. So look at Aspire 15.6-inch notebook 5738PG as decent choice with the touch screen as a bonus.

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Seeing her physical form, Alienware M15x is confident to be mentioned as a desktop replacement (replacement PC) because of its size that is big enough and weighs no less than 4 kg. These dimensions are enlarged due to buried none other than the various components of “steady” for gaming (such as wide-screen 15.6″ with LED lighting system). This notebook also carry the latest mobile processor four-core Intel Core i7-720QM, which is attached to a capacity of 4 GB of DDR3 memory (Dual Channel) and 500 GB hard drive. No doubt this notebook’s power equivalent desktop PC for the upper class and for who are ready for heavy computing.

But what makes M15x looked more powerful is the use of graphics chip GeForce GTX 260M with 1GB DDR3 memory. This chip is a graphics processor for the middle class that satisfy today’s game, at least 260 GTX performance better than the GeForce 9600 or Radeon 5850. Some M15x variants also offered in VGA SLI mode for graphics though more toothed. But as long as we try, GTX 260M single mode alone is very sufficient for any activity as well.

As a gaming notebook, Alienware M15x with an atmosphere thicker muscular and fierce. This is clearly visible from the material that was stiff but strong in every part. The layout of the frontal speakers and a wide armrest makes gaming activities become more attractive. Unfortunately the composition of the keyboard keys, although substantial, did not have enough gap so that its use so feel a bit cramped. However, M15x still attractive with a very adequate completeness of features, this product is equivalent to a desktop PC.

Despite offering a strong gaming concept but Alienware M15x is not for everyone. Its bulky and heavy weights are not necessarily appropriate for your mobile activities. Moreover, the batteries run out too quickly due to high specification. However, if used as a desktop replacement devices, M15x does not disappointing. Because its performance is as ferocious as its appearance. You did not need a headache to upgrade, considering the composition of its own hardware is already high. Dell’s own party acknowledged that the gaming market is limited, because that’s an expensive notebook is not imported in large quantities like other notebooks.

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At the end of 2009, ATI launched its new line of graphics cards as well as launch a new generation called the Radeon Radeon series 5. Unmitigated, within the adjacent direct ATI graphics card launched four series as well as to direct the market to fill the upper and middle classes, each in a series Radeon 5800 and 5700. ATI Radeon series 5 is certainly bringing new and better specs than the previous series. Not only that, some new technologies were also included in this latest series.

Technology

Birth of the ATI Radeon series 5 is certainly accompanied by new technologies to provide more benefits and convenience for the user when use it. From the eye-candy, the main thing that most will find the ATI is its support for DirectX 11. This is to follow the DirectX 11 support Windows operating system promoted 7. It should be noted, ATI Radeon 5800 and 5700 is the first generation of graphics cards that have been fully supports DirectX 11.

Moreover, in these 5 series Radeon, ATI also introduced a multi-monitor new facility called ATI Eyefinity. This facility allows users to configure the monitor as many as a maximum of six units (when the graphics cards using CrossFire configurations or two graphics cards). This is possible because now the ATI graphics card is able to handle three monitors per graphics card. And to make it more flexible, available some configuration mode monitor which can also be arranged according to taste.

Specifications HD 5800 and HD 5700

Currently ATI has launched four series for the line of Radeon graphics card series 5. The fourth series is divided into two classes, namely HD 5800 and HD 5700. The difference is in the specification and the intended class. Radeon HD 5800 is positioned in the upper class, while the HD 5700 was in the middle class. For details more details, we will describe one by one from each series.

ATI Radeon HD 5800

Cypress has a code name, the Radeon HD 5800 series was first introduced to the public in September 2009. On that day, the direct ATI launched two series at once, namely the Radeon HD 5870 and HD 5850. Both series of graphics cards is projected to replace the Radeon HD 4870 and HD 4850.

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Both series graphics cards are now equipped with high-speed GDDR5 memory and the memory interface width of 256-bits. Both are also equipped with as many as 1600 units of stream processors.

In accordance to the naming, ATI Radeon HD 5870 graphics card is much faster than the HD 5850. Design reference standard graphics card is very long and large. Eutectic forms also a big box of the same size with long length of the card.

Radeon HD 5870 is equipped with a standard speed of 850 MHz, GDDR5 memory with a set at the speed of 4.8 GHz. And being able to work optimally, this graphics card need a big enough power. Therefore, this graphics card has two ports PCI-Express power.

Positioned slightly below it, the Radeon HD 5850 can be likened to replace the Radeon HD 4850, with the improved performance it was enough. Radeon HD 5850 accelerator is equipped with a speed of 725 MHz, slightly lower than the Radeon HD 5870. This graphics card is also equipped with GDDR5 memory which is also slightly lower than the Radeon HD 5870, which amounted to 4 GHz.

ATI Radeon HD 5700

Not until a month ago since Cypress introduced and launched, ATI also launched two series of graphics cards continued to complement its new product line with the code name Juniper. Juniper family made ATI RV830-based graphics accelerator and consisted of two series, the Radeon HD 5770 and Radeon HD 5750. Both graphics cards are placed on the middle class that offers good performance, but the price is still affordable and relatively low power consumption.

Sapphire HD5770

ATI Radeon HD 5770 has 850 MHz speed accelerator, while the Radeon HD 5750 700 MHz speed. Similar to the Radeon HD 5800 is faster, both HD 5700 series is also equipped with GDDR5 memory. Radeon HD 5770 has peaked to 4.8 GHz memory speed, and Radeon HD 5750 have a maximum to 4.6 GHz.

Although both equipped with GDDR5 memory, the Radeon HD 5700 series has only a memory interface of 128-bit only. The interface is only 128-bit is clearly going to affect the overall performance of the graphics card itself. But if you only run it at standard resolution, the performance difference will not be too pronounced. Do not forget that despite the lower power requirements, both the Radeon HD 5700 graphics card this still requires an external power supply from your PSU.

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