Even though netbooks were often rated to have slow performance with lousy keyboard by laptop or desktop fanatics, their sales were really hot whenever there was an exhibition in my area. The selling point netbooks has is due to their cheap prices, small form factor and sufficient performance for someone that their computer activity is only about chatting, browsing and social networking. But Intel seems like never give up on giving their Atom processors a “power up”, since they scheduled an update into bringing dual core processor into netbooks. Some source on Intel, the one that manufactures Atom processors, a new dual core Atom will be coming to market by the end of June.

Single core Atom processor in netbooks is good to maintain a long battery life, unfortunately it’s hard to say that it have a good performance. With the multitasking behavior of today’s PC users, the coming of Dual Core processor will push the netbooks to decrease performance gap compared to laptops. Well, Atom processors netbooks may never been designed to be in the same capability of a laptop performance. Their selling point is always been the cheap price and longer battery life, to make up for that, their performance is lowered. But then again, having said that a dual core processor will power new netbooks is still felt like a breeze for their buyer, hoping for a more powerful netbooks like Asus 1215N Dual Core Netbooks

Another Asus Eee PC having dual core Intel Atom processor will be announced shortly on May 13, named the Asus Eee PC 1215N. The rumor stated that Asus 1215N specification will use a 1,5GHz speed Intel processor supported by nVidia ION 2 GPU that adds Nvidia Optimus Technology into the 1215N. The screen size of this Eee PC netbook is not yet announced, but more specification details were promised to come along in a few days.

What made people rather excited with this Eee PC 1215N is because they expect that this multi core netbook will have some strenght in the graphic department, since NVidia ION 2 is known to be good with HD content playbacks. With the addition of Optimus technology in Asus 1215N, their user will have the flexibility to choose between dedicated and integrated graphics that will affect the battery life. Eee PC 1215N price or its release date were still unannounced, I guess we’ll have to wait until May 13 and see whether this 1215N will be as successful as 1201N or not in the market.

If you’re not satisfied with the latest single-core Atom netbooks and start to wonder whether there will be a come back of new dual core Atom netbooks, then your wish will be answered shortly. The benefits of the multicore processors will be back into the new netbooks coming this June. Netbooks manufacturer like Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Dell and Toshiba may still engage the market with their singe-core Atom processor netbook and boasting a good battery life for the exchange while Asus keeps offering their dual-core Atom processors in their Eee PC netbook.

Netbooks from Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Dell, and Toshiba are offered exclusively with single-core Atom processors, which provide good battery life but lack the performance of multicore chips. Though Asus has been offering a dual-core Netbook, this kind of design is rare because it shoehorns a more power-hungry Atom chip built for small desktop PCs into a larger laptop-sized casing.

If you ever read Asus 1201N review, then you might get the picture why a dual core Intel Atom netbooks is still beneficial to use since it gives you some balance in performance and battery life. This new Intel Atom dual core processor will be expected to show up around the June Computex conference while some source stated that it will be released in 2010 Q2.

This release of the new multicore netbooks can take advantage from delays of Linux OS and ARM processor powered netbook. I guess that time is becoming the essence here to take the 2010 netbook spotlight. Let’s see who will win this competition

Not so long ago, we’ve cover the news about iPad Price and Specs in this gadget blog. Many people were excited to welcome this Apple tablet pc and expect some good features from iPad. However, iPad is not an all perfect tablet gadget, it has some blunder compared to what people would think exist in it. And now, let’s hear what people consider as a weakness in iPad.

No Multitasking in iPad
With iPad’s 9.7 inch touch screen and its price, people might wanting a feature that compete with what netbook have, especially in the multitasking capability area. And yeah, we know that iPad was not intended to be a netbook. However, without this multitasking ability, it was such a disapointing weakness that an iPad user have to face. iPad was known to be not so ‘agile’ too when we move from one application to another.

No Adobe Flash in iPad
Alright, we have an iPad with 3G and/or WiFi support that can deliver the internet in our hands through Safari Browser. But unfortunately, iPad doesn’t have any Adobe Flash support and that will decrease your good experience when you wanted to play a video in the internet

No Camera and No iChat in iPad
I don’t really know about why this weakness can reside in this tablet gadget. The idea of bringing iPhone and a laptop capability in an iPad is frequently heard, but no cams and no iChat? oh come on, please be serious

Wow.. iPad got a few weakness that really decreasing my desire to have them. I know that some people also consider the lack of handwriting recognition and HDMI port in iPad. But in my opinion, it is still forgiveable. Other than that, I guess iPad really would be an easy target for jokes like its resemblance with some women ‘stuff’ or their problems with Fujitsu that also have their own iPad.. What an interesting gadget Apple produce eh

Apple iPad, I guess that’s what most of gadget lovers thinking of lately. Being said that iPad was intended too overthrow netbook’s superiority for light mobile computing activity and Amazon’s Kindle domination over the digital book reader, this gadget made by Apple really stir the buzz in the gadget info around the planet. Did you start to wonder about iPad’s price and Specification? Read on

Okay, so we heard about iPad being this and that, but the question is always the same,

“What is the price and specification for this iPad?”

but before we tell you how much iPad will cost you, it will be wise to get a good look into iPad specs and functions first. This gadget is like a combination of iPhone compacts and a laptop capability. iPad main interface is their 9.7 inch Multi Touch Screen within their thin body that weighs 1,5 pound.

iPad specification consists of an A4 1GHz processor with storage capacity of 16GB to 64GB. Their connectivity involves WiFi and 3G Networks. iPad also implements the accelerometer that make it fun to play games or playing multimedia files with it. In the sound department, iPad have been embedded with an active speaker and microphone.

With iPad, Apple also introduces the iBook application for this gadget, and also an iBook Store that already make their cooperation with five publishers to released their ebook in iBook Store. And for your information, the IBook itself was already support the ePub format. I guess people could see, that this iPad was intended to compete with Kindle products made by Amazon.

And now, let’s go for the Apple iPad price. For a WiFi version iPad, it would be $499 for the 16GB edition while the 32GB edition will cost you $599, and $699 for the 664GB. the 3G iPad is bundled with AT&T and sold with the price $829 for the 32GB. Even when the spesification of iPad seems hot, there are people who were disapointed with their incapability of handling multitask systems. But wheter the price will make it drop or pop, we can only see it on the market report.

For some laptop users who insist to play some games on their notebook, Asus G51VX came to succeed the line of G50 Asus gaming laptop. This Intel Core 2 Duo P7350 (2GHz, 3MB L2 Cache, 1066MHz FSB) processor powered G51VX also sports a NVidia GeForce GTX 260 M with 1GB GDDR3 to handle the graphic work. To complete the gaming experience of this laptop, Asus put a 15.6 inch TFT Widescreen Display with 1366x 768 resolution, 4GB PC2-6400 DDR2 SDRAM 800MHz  and 6-cell 4800mAh battery.  Not to forger the other laptop functionality like a Dual Layer CD/DVD recordable, a 1.3 megapixel integrated web cam, an Intel WiFi 5100 (a/b/g/n), a HDMI port, eSATA and Windows Vista Home Premium (SP1, 64 Bit) is included in G51VX package. Alright, let’s get to the review and test of this gaming notebook.

Asus G51VX’s design is strong and cool (especially their glowing logos) just like any gamers might want for their laptop. Weighing 7.3 lbs with the dimension of 14.8 X 10.4 x1.6 inch, this laptop is not really a light one. The screen resolution were a little low for a GeForce GTX 260M, but that’s also ensure the screen won’t burden the graphic processor too much for your daily activities and task. The viewing angles of G5VX screen is quite good, gave solid brightness even though the color is not the best I’ve seen. The speaker quality is unfortunately average, and so does the placement.

Asus G51VX chiclet keyboard combined with adjustable backlighting really hit the spot for me where sometimes, we need lower keyboard light when using this gaming laptop on the dark. The palm rest is rubberized giving more grip when your hand move between the keyboard and the touchpad were pretty responsive. G51VX battery life however, is not a long one as predictable since using it for games consumes more power. In our usage, we found that the battery would last approx 2 hours.

Asus G51VX gaming performance were supposed to be pretty good if we look into their GTX 260M graphic processor. However, for newer games that need more CPU resource, the G51VX’s Core 2 Duo P7350 seems to not be able to keep up with the demands. The games is still playable, but you might notice some lag in the game, and it won’t change even if you lowered your graphics settings, and that means, the processor is not strong enough for it. It is quite dissapointing, especially with the high price for this gaming laptop, but I never really hoped to play the latest games in a laptop anyway. G51VX also produce quite heat, blowing from their vent. The noticeably heat didn’t reach the keyboard surface though, however it is not recommended to use this Asus gaming laptop on your lap.

To conclude this Asus G51VX reviews, it was a pretty good platform to do some heavy work with your laptop, even if its fail to play newer games smoothly. The screen is not the best even when powered with GTX 260M powerful graphic. But the design is pretty cool and the keyboard surface and backlit keyboard really helps when we use this gaming laptop.