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Monday, February 01, 2010
AOpen Japan, have announced a new nettop called the XC Mini GP7A-HD (barebones kit) with a Core 2 Duo (Penryn) processor (up to 35W TDP) and NVidia ION graphics. Sounds like a powerhouse combination. No puny Atom processor here!
The >XC Mini GP7A-HD has got some heat pipe cooling going on inside and the Core 2 Duo needs a fan of it’s own. There’s a special BIOS setting [Silent & HD playback mode] to converse power consumption when watching movies. Has a DVD burner, card reader, 2x DDR3 RAM slots (4GB RAM max - for each slot I assume - it’s not clear), support for 2.5” SATA HDD or SSD, 2x mini PCI-express slots, 6 x USB 2.0, Gigabit LAN, eSATA, HDMI, VGA and audio jacks. Being a barebones kit, you’ll have to buy your own CPU, memory, HDD and OS. Oh, and Wi-Fi and antenna are not included. They are sold separately. Windows XP / Vista and Windows 7 are all supported. No word on Linux though.
The nettop measures 61 x 166 x 180mm in size. No pricing announced and it will be available mid-December.
How is this ion? Isn’t ion defined as a motherbord with Intel atom and a Nvidia GeForce 9400M making this an attempt to ride the hype of the Ion name?
Ps When are you going to post the HP dm-1 review? I want to buy one asap but I’m waiting for your review to make sure it is a good choice compared to the U150 (which hasn’t been released in my country yet)
Sounds pretty sweet! Hopefully this means we’re one step closer to getting a CULV + ION laptop too.
Could you get a Linux running on that machine?