ASUS has managed to find integrated graphic chip sets that can handle DirectX 10 in their new GMA X3500 motherboards. As usual company officials claim this is the world’s first Intel platform with onboard graphics capable of supporting DirectX 10 natively without the need for separate GPU to handle the simplest of DX10 demands. Of course, don’t expect to play Crysis in full frame rate on this motherboard but it will do for any other normal DX10 demands. As usual ASUS didn’t say anything about the pricing but we expect more info soon.
Check out new Eee PC clone, Fukato’s Datacask mini laptop that sport 8 inch 800×400 display, AMD Geode 500MHz processor, 20GB or 60GB hard drive, 512MB of RAM and Linux based operative system. Expect this little fella in Europe during May for €279 (or $440).
Gateway has a new line of laptops for always hungry customers so pay attention now: M-6850FX sport 15.4 inch display, Core 2 Duo T5550 CPU, an ATI Radeon HD 2600 graphics chipset, 3GB of RAM, a 320GB hard drive, and a DVD-R / RW / DVD-RAM optical drive and it is yours for $999.99. M-1626 comes with 15.4-inch display, an AMD Turion TL-60 CPU, ATI Radeon HD x1270 graphics, 4GB of RAM, a 250GB hard drive, 802.11g, and HDMI and price of $849.99. The cheaper T-1628 sport 14.1-inch display, has the same AMD CPU and ATI graphics chipset, 3GB of RAM, 250GB hard drive, and the WiFi and HDMI support, price $749.99. There is also pen-based laptop C-142XL which sports a Core 2 Duo T8300 CPU, ATI Radeon X2300 HD GPU, 3GB of RAM, a 250GB hard drive, and support Wacom pen for input for $1,299.99
Shuttle has a new XPC Desktop PC, XPC G5 6801M with AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ processor, 2GB of DDR2 RAM, 320GB hard drive, LG’s GGC-H20L Blu-ray / HD DVD combo drive, ATI’s 256MB HD 3450 graphics, a DVB-T tuner, 25-in-1 multicard reader and 7.1-channel audio output. OF course there are gigabit Ethernet, FireWire, USB, eSATA ports, DVI/VGA out and remote to make your digital video enjoyment even more easier. So, if you need one of super cool media PC think about this one and it is yours for €1,091 ($1,727).
