We're reporting on netbooks now?! Well, when it's from OCZ...
Maker of otherwise high-end enthusiast gear, OCZ Technology, is bringing DIY to the Netbook market (sorta) with its new 10-inch Neutrino netbook.
The minute notebook uses an Intel Atom N270 processor, chugging away at 1.6GHz, plugged into a 945GSE chipset and uses a 10-inch 1024x600 display. It does have a single PCI-Express mini slot available, microphone and 1.3MP webcam included. The four-cell battery sounds pretty standard too. What OCZ does is give you the chance to configure memory and storage options. Calling a system DIY when all you can do is choose the amount of RAM and HDD used is stretching it a bit. Quite frankly, aesthetics aside, when it comes to specifications Atom-based netbooks are identical twins. With the OCZ DIY Neutrino netbook you are offered the opportunity to use OCZ's own kit inside the Neutrino, ie: RAM and SSDs.
The super fly-weight Atom netbook will still look like a duck, walk like a duck and quack like a duck, but it'll get its memory and storage from a swan.
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Issue: 133 | February, 2012