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The VAIO YB series of AMD Fusion-powered notebooks that Sony showcased at last month’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas are here. The VAIO YB series is certainly not the first on the market with AMD’s Fusion Zacate chips, but Sony has still m…
Park the hearse, cancel the appointment with the funeral director, and don’t print the obituary, because netbooks are here to stay. Or at least that’s the case if Asus has any say in the matter (and the company does).
Asus will continue to blitz the ne…
It was during CES that Acer announced its upcoming 10.1-inch Aspire One 522, a netbook built around AMD’s A50M Fusion chipset with a 1GHz dual-core C-50 processor and Radeon HD 6250 graphics. You still can’t get your hands on one, but you can put your …
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Update: Now with video from the CES show floor!
Razer, best known for its line of gaming mice, sometimes uses CES to launch a product seemingly out of the company’s realm. One year it was the Mako 2.1 speakers, which is still the only speaker set in Razer’s product portfolio. And this year? Meet the Switchblade, a “mobile PC gaming concept design.”
The Switchblade is basically a netbook of sorts custom tailored for gamers and built around Intel’s Atom platform, likely Oak Trail. The idea is to bring a keyboard, mouse, and touchscreen display to mobile gaming, a combo that doesn’t really exist with today’s handheld consoles.
“The main problem with mobile PC gaming so far is that no one has been able to port the full mouse and keyboard experience onto a small size portable solution,” said Min-Liang Tan, CEO and Creative Director, Razer. “By combining adaptive on-the-fly controls and display, we managed to maintain the full tactile keyboard in a miniature computer while saving valuable screen estate.”
Not just an everyday netbook, the Switchblade comes with an “intelligent user interface that adjusts the configuration and key layout on-the-fly based on game content and user requirements” (the key graphics change, somewhat similar to the Optimus Maximum OLED keyboard), and it sports a custom overlay on top of Windows 7.
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