nVidia ION 2 is Here: Next-Gen Graphics for your Netbook/Nettop

We talked up nVidia’s ION graphics solution for netbooks a while back — mainly because it gave a more robust graphics foundation to an already thin netbook platform. Where the Intel GMA integrated video fails, ION graphics gave netbooks a fighting chance for displaying better video resolutions, better gaming capabilities, high definition video, and (shock!)

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The Netbook does, what the iPad can’t

The freaking thing hasn’t even shipped, and the Apple iPad has already divided the Internet community into believers and haters. We won’t join in that direction — as far as MacPCWiz is concerned, jury’s still out on whether in the Apple tablet is a “gadget to beat” or not.

Steve Jobs' newest baby – the

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Gadget Update: USB 3.0 is coming right at you

Hehehey! MacPCWiz’s 2nd Gadget Update coming right at you. (boo yah!) In this issue we feature a couple of computers plus a few interesting gadgets for you. Hold on tight, enjoy the ride.

LG’s BD590 – First Blu-ray player with inegrated hard drive

The LG BD590 – Blu-ray player with hard drive storage

First up is LG’s

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Gadget Update: External Hard Drives, netbooks, and then some

MacPCWiz is feeling pumped up for 2010, and so we’re introducing a new portion on this here blog: the MacPCWiz Weeky Gadget Update. (ta-dah!)

Here we feature NOT ONLY the newest, top-of-the-line, leading/bleeding edge gadgets — but anything at all that tickles our fancy, attention, anything that has cute and pretty models with it, or at

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2010: The “death of the netbook” and the “year of the tablet”?

Barely a week into 2010 and techies all over the world are already proclaiming the downfall of 2009’s favorite gadget — the netbook. Black Friday’s hottest item is going RIP, says all my fellow tech nerds while sipping their designer coffee and hunched over their work terminals. A blog at NYTimes.com says it this way:

Stuck

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nVidia ION allows Blu-Ray viewing on a netbook

nVidia’s ION graphics chip is looking more like a winner by the moment. We talked about the nVidia ION’s graphics capabilities at length, and what a boon they can be to netbooks. But now, David Ragones, product line manager at Nvidia claims here at a CNET.com article that nVidia ION for netbooks supports blu-ray playback.

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External Hard Drive: the perfect Netbook accessory

(cue nostalgic music)… I remember the first PC I assembled by myself. It had 256MB of RAM, and AMD processor and a 10GB Hard Drive — you heard that right, a dinky 10GBs. Gone are those days, even netbooks today come with a 160GB HDD at the very least. But the way we consume, create,

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November’s Bestselling NETBOOKS

As the holiday season goes into full swing, you’ll be hearing more and more of this, the computer system of the year by far – the NETBOOK. The biggest shopping holiday of the year, Black Friday, has come and gone (that’s “when-Americans-get-into-an-irrational-buying-frenzy-every-end-of-November-and-buy-everything-they-see” to you non-US residents) and we here at MacPCWiz list down for you

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Black Friday’s Big Winner – NETBOOKS

For Black Friday madness, there will always be winners and losers — the ones who got what they wanted, and the ones who didn’t do so well. Today at MacPCWiz we take a look at the big winners for Black Friday shopping madness. Netbooks, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Intel, and yes, Twitter — they all were

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Best Deals on Windows 7 Netbooks

MacPCWiz now brings you these aborable little netbooks sporting Microsoft’s newly-launched Windows 7 OS. If you are looking for a netbook to tote around, get on FaceBook, type that odd book report — basically to be found looking cute and adorable with — get your Windows 7 netbook fix right here.

Read more on these netbooks from Mac PC Wiz after the break.