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Hardware Zone has just confirmed this and have new info: The ASUS Eee PC 1201PN netbook will come with various processors including the D410, N450 and D510 but there will be no Nvidia Optimus because they want to get a next gen ION notebook on to the market quickly. Windows 7 Starter based netbooks will not have Optimus on board. An Optimus loaded model of the 1201PN will be released towards the end of the year. I also got confirmation from Notebook Italia below.

Could the upcoming ASUS Eee PC 1201PN powered by an Intel Atom N450 processor and the next generation ION not actually have Nvidia Optimus, as we’ve been lead to believe up until now? Blogeee.net has just heard from Nvidia France that the 1201PN will not have Nvidia Optimus built in, but it no doubt has the 16-core next generation ION chip. They say “It’s a global error”. Pretty massive error, if it’s actually true. Pretty much everywhere the new ION is touted with Nvidia Optimus (Nvidia’s ION page). Notebook Italia just sent me this quote from an Nvidia official: “Asus decided to use the same motherboard without Optimus to go to market and launch Optimus later with the same design plus dual core CPU” refering to the 1215N.

That 1201PN sample that was benchmarked over at Notebookcheck the other day never came with Nvidia Optimus either.

Could this be the reason for the delay until May / June? Will we get Nvidia Optimus by then?

Gigabyte are probably better known for manufacturing motherboards, but they have been venturing into the laptop market and the T1000 Tablet PC is the latest machine to come out with the Gigabyte logo stamped onto it.

Features of the Gigabyte T1000 Tablet:

10.1 inch – 1,366 x 768 HD touch screen display, a choice of Intel Atom N450 or N470 processor, a 1GB RAM, a 250GB hard drive, Microsoft Windows 7 Starter Edition, Wi-Fi with Bluetooth connectivity and a 1.3 megapixel camera

Annoyingly there are no details on pricing just yet

While we’re on the topic of convertible netbooks, it should be noted that Gigabyte is readying a new series featuring the latest Atom Pinetrail platform called the Gigabyte T1000 series. Specs of the series include:

• Intel Atom N450 clocked at 1.66GHz or Atom N470 clocked at 1.86GHz
• Windows 7 OS
• Intel NM10 chipset
• 10.1 inch 1366 x 768 resolution display
• 250GB HDD
• 2 USB ports, eSATA/USB combo port
• 4 in 1 card reader
• ExpressCard slot
• Built-in speakers
• Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
• Built-in HSDPA antenna
• 1.3 megapixel webcam
• Ethernet
• 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi

The T1000 features two models – the T1000X and the T1000P. The T1000X comes with a single-touch display and a 4 cell 4500mAh lithium-ion battery while the T1000P comes with a multi-touch enabled display, and a 6 cell 7650mAh battery.

Motherboard manufacturer Gigabyte has unveiled a spanking new tablet netbook namely the Gigabyte T1000. The new model features a 10.1-inch 1,366 x 768 HD touchscreen display, a choice of Intel Atom N450 or N470 processor, a 1GB RAM, a 250GB hard drive, Microsoft Windows 7 Starter Edition, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity and a 1.3-megapixel camera. Too bad, there is no info on pricing so far.

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You see, there’s not much wiggle room when it comes to netbook pricing. By and large, vendors have priced their machines about as low as they can in order to receive but a sliver of a profit, and there’s certainly no way they could eat another $20 to $30 on each unit and still feel good about themselves. To that end, we’re hearing that many companies may make their Atom N270 and Atom N280-based netbooks ineligible for the Windows 7 upgrade (from the factory, anyway), with those always-mysterious “industry sources” pointing to “increasing costs and low consumer demand.” In essence, these guys feel as if consumers will view Windows XP as sufficient for those underpowered machines, while it’ll be the Atom N450, Atom D410 and Atom D510 machines that’ll be most suited for Win7. ‘Course, we suspect you’ll be able to pony up for whatever upgrade you’d like once it’s in your hands, but we wouldn’t anticipate any handouts to suddenly be attached to existing machines.

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