We’ve been longtime fans of Oppo’s disc players, but as much as we liked the company’s BDP-83 Blu-ray player, its US$500 price puts it out of reach for most buyers. With that in mind, Oppo has released the BDP-80, a lower priced Blu-ray player that looks to keep much of what we liked about the BDP-83 for only US$290. It’s available today. The easiest way to see the differences between the new BDP-80 and the BDP-83 is to check out Oppo’s comparison chart, but the short story is that it keeps most of the BDP-83’s features, but has a step-down video processor, can’t output DVD at 24 frames-per-second, and it lacks some customer-installation-friendly options like an RS-232 port and IR inputs and outputs.
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The HP Mini 210 and Samsung N220 are the latest Netbooks to sport the new Intel Atom chipset, complete with the Atom N450 1.66GHz chip and Intel GMA 3150 graphics processor. Both models are 10.1-inch machines with the standard ports and features we expect from a low-cost minilaptop.
HP Mini 210
# Atom N450 1.66GHz processor
# 1GB RAM
# 10.1-inch display
# 250GB HDD
# Windows 7 Starter edition
# Six-cell battery
# US$398.99
Samsung N220
Atom N450 1.66GHz processor
1GB RAM
10.1-inch display
250GB HDD
Windows 7 Starter edition
Six-cell battery
349 Euro (US$500)
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The Pine Trail platform consists of a 45nm processor and the NM10 Express mainboard. The former might be the first Intel chips to integrate both memory controller and graphics engine together with the CPU on a single silicon. According to Intel, this would not only give the next-generation Netbooks HD-decoding capabilities, but also reduce power consumption by up to 20 percent. Of the three available models, the Atom D450 and D410 are single-core processors made for Netbooks and Nettops, respectively, while the dual-core D510 will only be found deskbound machines. All three models run at a clockspeed of 1.66GHz. In conjunction with this announcement, Asus has also announced its first Eee PC lineup that sports the second-generation Atom platform. The 10.1-inch Eee PC 1005P and 1005PE will sport the 1.66GHz D450 processor and Intel GMA 3100 graphics engine, though the former will have a smaller 160GB HDD compared with the latter’s 250GB HDD.
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