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This range of connectors is able to provide high electrical performance in both low-voltage differential signalling (LVDS) and embedded Display Port (eDP) applications.

Asus has introduced a number of new accessories for the company’s netbooks and notebooks. On paper, the accessories don’t look all that different from items the company has been offering for the past few years. Ther eare new USB disc drives, hard drives, and mice, and some new carrying cases and power adapters. But some of the new models feature designs tailored to go with Asus computers such as the Lamborghini series notebooks or Karim Rashid edition netbooks.

That’s the point Engadget is making, unhelpfully calling the new, better breed of netbooks “notbooks”, as in “not netbooks”, even though they’re netbooks, but better. But the point remains: these days, you can spend between $300 and $500 for a computer that will do most of what a laptop does, but will still be cheaper, smaller and more portable.

Originally cut-down notebook PCs designed for maximum portability and battery life, netbooks have evolved into serious computing devices in their own right. Some of the specs make it difficult to decide where the netbook category ends and notebooks begin. Still, some things remain relatively constant. Most have a 10.1in screen, a small keyboard and a lightweight low-power processor. They struggle with heavy computing tasks, but are good for web and email access, word processing and simple spreadsheets.

Opera Software, the maker of desktop Opera browser for Windows, Mac OS X and other devices, announced on Monday plans to create an entirely new browser from scratch optimized for web surfing on tablets.

The new browser will be based on and promises “the smoothest tablet and netbook experience on the market.”

Their chief of development Christen Krogh, explained in a written statement why Opera for tablets will be a fully featured release:

In 2011, tablets are a new must-have. Opera is creating waves with the first public preview of Opera for tablets. Opera for tablets brings the same trusted Internet experience to tablets and netbook PCs as users have come to love on their mobile phones and desktops.

Looks like Dell will be launching a new Latitude 2120 netbook at CES next week. The 2120 is said to have specs identical to the previous 2110, but it packs double the power thanks to a dual core N550 processor. It features 3 and 6 cell battery
options, a 10.1 inch display (with an optional touchscreen), 1 to 2GB of RAM, USB, Ethernet, and VGA ports.

The other interesting news about this latest Latitude is that it gets an optional Broadcom Crystal HD video accelerator. There’s no info about price or availability just yet though.

The machine has a smallish 8.9-inch capacitive touchscreen with a resolution of 1024 x 600. It also has a webcam for recording video, runs Windows 7, and has a 7.4V battery with 3000mAh of power. The little netbook also uses 1GB of RAM and has a 20GB HDD.
The brain of the machine is an Intel Atom N450 CPU. The hardware should add up to an average netbook computing experience with a screen that swivels for tablet use. The name of the netbook is the Netvertible. Other features include dual USB 2.0 ports, audio jacks for private listening, VGA out, and a SD card reader. Pricing and availability are unknown at this time.

The Dell Inspiron Duo is getting a lot of attention these days — not because it’s the first laptop that turns into a tablet when you tilt the screen. It’s because of how you tilt the screen. There’s no swivel letting you tilt the screen left to right like you’ll find on most convertible tablets. Instead, the screen flips inside the the lid, so you can close the lid like normal, but with the screen facing outward.

The folks at NewPad have found a Chinese computer that also has a screen that flips back to let you convert from laptop to tablet mode, but it’s not exactly a Dell Duo clone, because the whole lid flips, not just the display.

This isn’t a completely new idea. In fact, the Chinese notebook looks more like a Vadem Clio than a Dell Inspiron Duo. But it’s been years since I’ve seen anyone use this distinctive design.

With so many netbooks available in the market today, impressing an average computer-obsess geek proves to be a difficult and challenging task. The obiquity of netbooks have turned these light-weighted and smaller versions of the traditional laptop computers into an ordinary thing of the past. They all look freakin the same. No wonder companies are pulling their own gimmick, albeit unsuccessful for some, to set them apart from the rest. The Dell Inspiron Duo is no exemption.

Displayed under the statement “Sometimes you want to touch. Sometimes you need to type. With the new touch-sensitive, Flash-capableInspiron™ duo convertible tablet, you can do both in style. You can tell it’s Dell”, the Dell Inspiron Duo is a hybrid laptop/ tablet. With its 180 degrees swivel screen the netbook can instantly morph into a tablet. It is probably the first netbook to boast such functionality.

Launched last September 14, 2010, the Dell Inspiron Duo immediately caught the media attention. According to a blog review, the Inspiron Duo’s product demo– vertically rotating screen– was so impressive that the writer almost hit the ceiling when she first saw it. “It was like nothing we’d ever seen before,” as she puts it.

Chrome OS is definitely a little more confusing since Google already has its own Chrome. A Web browser along with an operating system, called Android. However, Google claims that all ambiguity will be over by the end of this year, when the company plans to launch their first lightweight ‘netbook’ computer that runs Chrome publically. Though Google has yet turned down any query to details about this up-coming device, it is much expected for it to be manufactured by some other company and worthily be branded by Google itself – just like the way it’s done with Nexus phone, which runs on Android.

Google is not facing its rivals Microsoft and Apple with Chrome OS, which are renowned for their operating systems and other day-to-day software’s like Microsoft Office, Apple iPhoto or iTunes. Such softwares are no use for these Chrome computers. Instead considering it to be a total online-operating-system, Chrome users would use other online-tools of Google like Docs instead of Microsoft Office, Picasa instead of iPhoto, Docs for word processing, Gmail for e-mail and much more. Google has full intentions to open a Chrome app store for software developers to dream up other Chrome tools.