Reviews on Windows 7 PCs are making rounds everywhere. Recently chip maker AMD previewed some jazzy Windows 7 PCs to be showcased in January at CES. AMD gave a sneak preview of Dell's Inspiron Zino HD portable home theater while also showcasing an 11.6-inch Acer Ferrari One netbook that might make a mark beyond the Atlantic to US shores in 2010. In another part of a candlelit restaurant in Lower Manhattan, AMD demonstrated a bright red Acer Ferrari One 11.6-inch netbook working in accordance with a box called an external graphics port (XGP) to show 1080p HD video on a huge Toshiba display.
Untill now it is only available in Europe only, the netbook features a PCI Express card slot targeted at letting users connect to an XGP in order give the gadget the same graphics performance as a desktop system.In another scenario that AMD foresees, a user will unplug the netbook from the XGP to carry it along to work, and then plug it back later for home viewing of HD DVDs. AMD is working on a plan with Acer and several other PC vendors about the chances of releasing a comparable netbook in the US early next year, This could be around the time for CES. This was revealed by John Swinimer, an AMD rep. AMD also has in mind to show both the Zino home theater and Ferrari netbook which is scheduled to come along with Windows 7 netbooks based on the Vision Basic, Premium and Ultimate technologies announced in September. This will be probably announced at CES Unveiled in New York later as well as at the big CES show in Las Vegas in January next year.
A 17-inch notebook from Toshiba, for instance, tends to give and offers optional support for both standard and 720p HD graphics. The AMD notebook chips also has the ability and will also support Adobe's 64-bit Flash technology, this is expected to be announced anytime sometime next week. New technologies from AMD also have the ability to offload processing from the CPU to the GPU so as to prolong and extend battery life. This is reported from another source according to the AMD executives. It is predicted that within the first six months of 2010, AMD and its PC manufacturing partners will soon be rolling out new Vision Black technologies for desktop machines.
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