ASRock is best known for producing motherboards, and maybe a few laptop and nettop computers. But DigiTimes reports ASRock plans to launch an Android tablet later this year. According to the report, the specs haven’t been finalized, but it looks like the ASRock tablet will feature an NVIDIA Tegra 2 chip and it will run Google Android 3.0 Honeycomb. It’s…

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Yesterday I was griping about how tiny desktop computers (nettops) often lack optical disc drives (although you could almost overlook that thanks to the low price tags and moderate performance offered by these little guys). Today a reader brought a tiny desktop to my attention that addresses that oversight quite nicely — although I’m sure it’s going to be much…

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Nettops are a strange mix between desktops and netbooks. On the one hand, the idea of a low power, tiny desktop computer makes a lot of sense if you don’t need your computer to do much or if you’re just looking for a PC to stick next to your TV for some light web browsing and video playback duties. On…

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The ASRock ION 330 nettop features a dual core Intel Atom 330 CPU and NVIDIA ION graphics. It weighs just under 4 pounds, and is just barely large enough to hold a hard drive, DVD burner, and a few sticks of RAM. NVIDIA recently sent me a demo unit to test out. The company recently launched an updated model with…

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The ASRock ION 330HT-BD is the latest nettop from ASRock. It sports NVIDIA ION graphics and an Intel Atom 330 dual core processor, but that’s hardly enough to make this little computer stand out from a number of similar machines with virtually identical specs. But the ION330HT-BD also meets EuP 2.0 standards, which means it consumes less than 0.5W of…

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ASRock has been putting out tiny, low power nettops with NVIDIA ION graphics for about as long as anyone… which is to say for a few months. Now the company is introducing an updated model called the ASRock ION 330HT-BD. Like the first model, the new computer can handle HD and Blu-Ray video while using very little power thanks to…

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Apparently Japan’s DosPara isn’t the only company with the bright idea of releasing a 12 inch laptop with a dual core Atom 330 CPU and NVIDIA ION chipset for enhanced graphics performance. Blogeee reports that ASRock has a nearly identical machine in the works. In fact, I haven’t ruled out the possibility that the ASRock Multibook G22 and DosPara Prime…

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