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Full Flash For Everyone But iPhone, Actually Playable HD Vids

3:01PM Matt Buchanan | A ton of good news about Adobe Flash 10.1: Full Flash is coming to Android, BlackBerry, Symbian, WebOS and Windows Mobile. And it’ll be actually GPU accelerated, meaning you can play back YouTube in HD perfectly. But the bad news? More »
Computers

Asus EeeBox EB1501 Nettop: DVD Slot Drive, Ion Graphics

9:16PM Danny Allen | Wow, this could be my fallback plan for a lightweight entertainment PC if the Eee Keyboard ends up sucking. The EB1501 is the first EeeBox with an optical drive, Windows 7, and a classy new design. More »
Computers

HP Mini 311 With Nvidia Ion Transistor Graphics Comes For $US400

2:01PM Matt Buchanan | This might just be the netbook we’ve been waiting for: An Nvidia Ion-powered HP Mini with an 11-inch, 1366×768 display for 400 US bucks. And you can actually buy it soon! September 23. Did I mention it plays 1080p video awesomely? More »
Computers

Asus Eee Keyboard Confirmed For October!

9:45PM Danny Allen | Hell yes. Asus has finally committed to an October US and European arrival for its entertainment-PC-in-keyboard. The sleek device has a 5-inch touchscreen and uses Ultra Wideband HDMI (with receiver) to connect to your TV. I want it on my coffee-table. More »
Computers

Asus EeeBox EB1012 Has Ion Graphics, 1080p HDMI Output

8:04PM Danny Allen | We had heard that an updated EeeBox PC was coming, and now its up on Asus USA’s site. The compact EB1012 packs an Atom N330 processor, 250GB hard disk, 2GB DDR2-800 RAM (expandable to 4GB), Gigabit Ethernet and 802.11n Wi-Fi. More »
Computers

Asus Eee Keyboard Expected “As Early As October”

8:03PM Danny Allen | In the latest twist of the Eee Keyboard’s delay, DigiTimes reports the entertainment-PC-in-a-keyboard should be ready “as early as October”. It also says the 20-inch Eee Top AIO, and two new ultra-thin U/UX series notebooks will arrive in September. More »
Hardware

Nvidia Ion LE: So Windows XP Netbooks Don’t Have Crappy Graphics Either

11:18PM Matt Buchanan | The Ion LE is a quiet launch from the usually boisterous Nvidia: It’s a cheaper version of their Ion graphics chip for netbooks, stripped of DirectX 10 support, which is only needed in Vista, so hopefully it’ll find its way into more cut-rate XP-powered netbooks. [Fudzilla via Engadget]] More »
Computers

Lenovo S12 Is the First Netbook With Nvidia Ion, Costs Under $US500

8:31PM John Herrman | With the IdeaPad S12, Lenovo, as rumoured, is first out of the gates with a netbook based on Nvidia’s Ion chipset, and it’s a hell of a promising start: this 12-inch netbook promises the whole HD-playing, game-conquering Ion experience for around $US500. More »
Computers

Acer Revo and Nvidia Ion Hands On: Flawless Blu-ray Playback Changes Cheap Computers Forever

11:00AM Matt Buchanan | Acer’s Revo, a tiny desktop that’ll be “well under” $US500, is the first computer with Nvidia’s Ion netbook platform. Why care? Because it’s got a crappy Intel Atom processor and plays HD Blu-ray movies flawlessly. More »
Computers

Lenovo First to Pack Nvidia Ion HD Graphics Into Netbooks

12:10AM Matt Buchanan | We’re gonna see Nvidia’s Ion platform in dirt-cheap desktops first, but Taiwan rag Commercial Times says Lenovo looks like the first to put it in netbooks, starting with 11.6 and 12.1-inch IdeaPads. [Digitimes via Electronista] More »