EeeTop gets a showing

ASUS’ BRAND NEW and as-of-yet unreleased EeeTop computer (ET1602) has been reviewed by the guys over at Hispazone.

The Atom-powered computer seems to bring to the market some interesting technologies and breaks down some previously existing walls (price vs. touch). Not without small snags, Mikel says it shows some great promise. Read it here – available in both Castellano and English.

The NAS server concept seems to be booming and Benchmark Reviews has another of these for your delight. It’s the TS-509, the five-bay all-purpose NAS Server from QNAP. The company has added some new software features under the QPKG Center Software Expansion and Olin is giving a course in network terminology. Mebibytes and Gibibytes, it seems, are new to many of us... Give it a read.

If you’re looking for some wicked artwork on a notebook, look no further than this: Tweaktown’s review of the Smooth Creations Smoothbook DR notebook. This not only comes with a Giger-esque paint job, but it also sports some serious hardware – a Q9550, 4GB of RAM, RAIDed 64GB SSD drives and two 8800GTX in SLI mode. You can only imagine the price tag on the masterpiece, can’t you?

Hardware Canucks is looking into the CoolerMaster HAF 932. We’ve mentioned this one before – it’s a high air-flow tower that sports 3 massive fans (with space for more), so powerful you can probably dry your hair to one. Not too pricey, can house a second PSU for redundancy and is water cooling friendly. Sounds good.

Extremetech is having a Clash of the Teenies with four G45 micro-ATX motherboards from Asus, MSI, Gigabyte and ECS. Although they are all essentially based on the same technology, some are clearly higher performing than others, as is the case of the Asus and Gigabyte boards (those two at it again...). If you’re looking for a bargain that fits into a small case, you should read this.

We know we promised no more Core i7 reviews – and we’re delivering on that – but Anandtech has dug up some dirt on the CPU that’s worth mentioning in our holy wibble. Anand pens it himself and calls it the Unwritten Chapters. There’s a mixed bag of goodies when it comes to power consumption. Clever manipulation of the CPU will allow a new Nehalem to power down unnecessary cores and save you a buck or two. Anand can’t wait for the mobile versions of the chips...

Hardware Logic has a review of Kingston’s Data Traveller 150 32GB stick. You can stick a massive operating system on one of these, or you can use it to lug around a massive amount of data. Take your pick. Performance is similar to an aging ATA-33 drive – which doesn’t mean it’s bad – just really really good to supplement your netbook’s capacity. Get a move on. µ