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HP Mini 210 HD edition review
Feb 25th
Netbooks for all! We’re convinced that’s the motivational saying plastered to the wall in the HP lab where the company births Minis for everyone but your pet fish. But of all the company’s Pine Trail offerings, we’re most excited about the $425 Mini 210, which has a 10.1-inch HD screen and a Broadcom Crystal Accelerator chip that promises decent HD video playback, even with Flash. With an attractive new thin design, improved chiclet keyboard and that promise to handle high-def content, the Mini 210 has the potential to kick the others to the curb. Given the issues we had with the and HP’s newer touchpads, though, we had to put on the glasses and take a closer look. Join us past the break for the full review, will you?
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originally appeared on on Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:24:00 EST. Please see our .
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ATI busts out Radeon HD 5830, covers all bases
Feb 25th
Whether you wanna call it the affordable high end or the really supercharged midrange, ATI has decided that there is a space to be filled between its scorching / cards and the only somewhat slower SKU. So let’s all meet the $239 HD 5830, shall we? As is par for the course, it’s a 40nm DirectX 11 card, and while it matches the 2.15 billion transistor count of the 5850, the new contender makes do with only 16 ROPs and 1,120 stream processors. To compensate for that processing loss, the core clock is raised to 800MHz while maintaining the 1GHz memory speed of the elder 5850. If this sounds like the 5830 will basically be composed of 5850 chips that didn’t quite make the high grade, good, because that’s exactly what’s happening. Internet reviewers have already had some time to play around with ATI’s latest card, and if we can draw a consensus, it would be that while the performance is pretty much spot on between its nearest siblings, the price is that little bit too steep to make the HD 5830 an easy recommendation.
– AnandTech
– HotHardware
– HardOCP
– PC Perspective
– Legit Reviews
– ExtremeTech
originally appeared on on Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:56:00 EST. Please see our .
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