Sparkle's Calibre CUTi Nettop Appeals to Unicorn Lovers
Sparkle's Calibre CUTi Nettop Appeals to Unicorn Lovers
Posted 01/19/2010 at 9:30am
| by Paul Lilly
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Leave it to a company called Sparkle to deck out its latest nettop with a unicorn. We're not sure why, nor do we know what's up with the funky capitalization in the Calibre CUTi's name, but hey, it's the hardware that counts, right?
And on that front, the Calibre CUTi combines an Intel Atom dual-core 1.6GHz processor with Nvidia's Ion platform. It also comes with up to 4GB of DDR2 memory, a 160GB or 320GB hard drive expandable to 500GB (also supports SSDs), a 5-in-1 card reader, Gigabit LAN, 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, optional Bluetooth, six USB 2.0 ports, 7.1-channel audio, and an HDMI port.
Sparkle says the Calibre CUTi consumes just 14W while idle, or "less than an energy-saving light bulb," and 30W at full bore.
No word yet on price or availability.
Image Credit: Sparkle
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ETNPNYS
January 19, 2010 at 12:21pm
Will this thing play 1080p smoothly? I'm not familiar enough with the Ion platform to know how it will handle it...
And if so, would you just be able to plug in an external Blu-Ray drive to play Blu-Ray movies?
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Trooper_One
January 19, 2010 at 11:53am
What's wrong with the unicorn? Seems like a decent nettop to me. If the price is right, I think it could be a good sell.
austin43
January 19, 2010 at 10:53am
If the price is right I could live with the unicorn I guess...lol
ethanajs
January 19, 2010 at 10:32am
hey thats not too bad im really loving the 7.1 audio and hdmi port.
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