Habey has introduced a new version of its HD video decoder which is even smaller than the HB-VD904 PCIe mini card the company introduced last summer. The new Habey HB-VD920 is a half height PCI Express Mini card which you can add to any netbook, tablet, or desktop computer to enable support for 1080p HD video playback. The HB-VD920 is…

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The Acer Aspire One Happy is an upcoming 10 inch netbook from Acer that appears to be a rebranded version of the Acer Aspire One D255. The main difference is that the Happy comes in bright pastel colors — and oh yeah, it has slightly more ridiculous name. But Peter at Netbook News spotted another interesting tidbit about the Happy…

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The HP Mini 5103 is the latest business-class netbook from Hewlett Packard. Physically it looks almost exactly like the HP Mini 5101 and 5102 which precede it. The primary difference is that in the US the netbook is only available in a new dark brown “espresso” color. Under the hood, the HP Mini 5103 has all the things that made…

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The Broadcom Crystal HD video accelerator is a media coprocessor that adds support for HD video playback on computers with slow processors and graphics cards that normally wouldn’t be able to handle high definition video. A handful of netbooks on the market today ship with the card pre-installed, and hackers have been picking up cheap Broadcom cards from eBay for…

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The Broadcom Crystal HD video accelerator is a PCI Express card that you can throw into a number of netbooks or other devices to enable 1080p HD video playback on a computer that normally wouldn’t have enough processing power to handle high resolution video. While the original card wasn’t exactly enormous, it looks like Broadcom’s second generation Crystal HD video…

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The Asus Eee PC 1005PR has been available for a few weeks, but a handful of early reviews on Amazon are less than positive. Here’s the deal: The Eee PC 1005PR looks a lot like other 10 inch netbooks from Acer, but it has two features that make it stand out from the crowd. First, it has a 10.1 inch,…

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The Asus Eee PC 1005PR netbook is now shipping in America. This model looks a lot like the Eee PC 1005PE, and for the most part, it’s the same computer. Both models have 1.66GHz Intel Atom N450 processors, 1GB of RAM, and a 250GB hard drive. They both have 6 cell batteries and run Windows 7 Starter Edition. But here’s…

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The Asus Eee PC 1005PR is the first 10 inch netbook from Asus with a high resolution 1366 x 768 pixel display. it also packs a Broadcom Crystal HD video accelerator so you can actually watch HD video smoothly on the HD display. And while the Eee PC 1005PR isn’t shipping quite yet, it’s now available for pre-order from Amazon…

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The Asus Eee PC 1005PR looks exactly like the Eee PC 1005PE — until you turn it on. That’s when you’ll find out that the netbook has a high resolution 1366 x 768 pixel HD display and it can handle HD video playback thanks to a built in Broadcom Crystal HD video accelerator. Asus first showed of the Eee PC…

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The Broadcom Crystal HD video accelerator is a mini PCI-E card that you can throw in some netbooks and notebooks to enable HD video playback even on low power devices with Intel Atom or similar processors. A handful of netbooks including the HP Mini 210, Dell Inspiron Mini 10, and HP Mini 5102 are available with the Broadcom card preloaded….

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The Broadcom Crystal HD video accelerator is a media coprocessor that lets you watch 1080p HD video even on netbooks with small screens and slow processors. The upside is that you can watch high quality videos without transcoding them. The downside is that not a lot of computers actually ship with the HD video decoder preinstalled. We’ve already seen plenty…

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Adobe has pushed out the release candidate for Flash Player 10.1 for Windows, Linux, Mac, and Solaris. That means that unless any major issues are discovered, this is the full version of Flash Player 10.1 and the beta testing period is pretty much over. The reason this matters to the low power computing community is because Flash Player 10.1 features…

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