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Up close with the Asus G51J 3D laptop

Dan Ackerman and Scott Stein | Nov 20, 2009

(Scott playing Left 4 Dead 2 on the Asus 3D laptop.
(Credit: Dan Ackerman/CNET))

Earlier this week, Asus unveiled a 15-inch laptop with Nvidia's 3D Vision technology built in. The US$1,699 Asus G51J 3D has a 120Hz LCD panel, an Intel Core i7 CPU, and a high-end Nvidia GeForce GTX 260M GPU, and comes bundled with a pair of Nvidia's active glasses and the USB-powered IR emitter required to make the glasses work.
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Asus' new Eee PC Netbook packs Nvidia Ion and dual-core Intel Atom

Dan Ackerman | Nov 19, 2009

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Hot on the heels of the well-regarded HP Mini 311, Asus has moved the Netbook bar forward by taking a 12-inch Netbook chassis and including both Nvidia's Ion graphics and a dual-core version of Intel's Atom processor (called the Atom 330). We've previously seen dual-core Atoms only in a handful of Nettop desktops, because of heat issues, and it's unlikely we'd see one in anything smaller than a 12-inch laptop body.

While still small, the 1201N fits in a full-size keyboard and a 250GB hard drive (plus access to 500GB of online storage space). The system comes with Windows 7 Starter and 2GB of RAM. Asus claims the 6-cell battery should last up to five hours, similar to what we've seen in other Eee PC models.
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Dell Adamo XPS makes it in time for Christmas in the US

Dan Ackerman | Nov 18, 2009

Just barely making it under the line for the holiday season in the US, Dell's eagerly awaited Adamo XPS laptop is now available to configure and preorder on the Dell Web site. The estimated ship date given to prospective buyers--December 22.
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Asus brings portable gaming into the 3D arena

Dan Ackerman | Nov 18, 2009

We're fans of Nvidia's 3D Vision technology, which uses a collection of hardware and software to create 3D versions of PC games. Our main knock against the concept has been that it requires several highly specific hardware purchases to work. In a recent article comparing Nvidia's 3D Vision technology to a new 3D laptop from Acer, we said:
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Pre-beta Flash update a booster for Nividia Ion Netbooks

Dan Ackerman | Nov 18, 2009

Got an HP Mini 311? Download the Flash 10.1 prerelease update ASAP.

The HP Mini 311 is one of our favorite current Netbooks, thanks to its hi-def screen, reasonable price, and Nvidia Ion graphics. Our main knock has been that the accelerated video, while great for basic gaming and HD video file playback, didn't work with the kind of streaming flash video used by Hulu (a US-centric service) and other sites. In our recent review, we said:

Video playback was excellent, and our test HD WMV file ran flawlessly--something no other Netbook has been able to do. Web-based video is a bit of a different story, but an updated version of Flash (reportedly available in November) will let streaming Web video take advantage of the GPU. For right now, Hulu on-demand content ran decently as-is, but not radically better than other Netbooks.

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