OCZ Technology enters the world of Net books with its Neutrino

Most net books look alike and have the standard features that others do. The OCZ Neutrino net book may look like its competitors from the outside but it comes with the advantage that we can decide on hard drive capacity, RAM and OS. OCZ Technology situated in California, USA and famous for it’s RAM and flash memory manufacturing has now decided to venture into the Net Books market with the launch of its first ultra portable net book “Neutrino”. A year ago, OCZ entered the DIY computer market by launching a laptop that had components that could be upgraded quickly and easily.

With the launch of Neutrino they have stretched out the line of first consumer DIY net books.

The Neutrino was launched at the CeBIT 2009 at Hanover, Germany. News has it that the net book will have two variants, one of which will be a “DIY” or a “DO it yourself” model that will let its users to select their own memory and storage solutions like RAM, OS, HDD and other components whereas another will be a pre-configured edition that will cater to high-end users. This small computer is meant to be fully expandable and can be customized as it has a basic platform on which we can add upgrades that we require. The DIY model is competitively priced whereas the other edition has an undisclosed premium price. The pre configured Neutrino is a 10.1 inch LED-backlit LCD display machine that comes loaded with a 1.6 GHz Intel Atom CPU, a 945 GSE chipset, up to 2GB of RAM, an optional 250GB OCZ SSD, 1,024*600 resolution LCD, VGA output, Ethernet, twin USB 2.0 ports, a 4-cell (2,200 mAh) battery, WiFi and a 1.3 mega pixel webcam. It should probably weigh 2.86 pounds and comes with an in built Windows XP server. In the DIY model, we can select from a whole range of OS that can be used on the Neutrino like Windows 7, Ubuntu, Xandros and Linpus Linux Lite. The Keyboard on this net book is very well arranged and nice to touch although the track pad performance is not worth mentioning.

As of date no pricing details have been furnished but it is assumed to be between $199-$299.  Individuals who would like to choose their own components in the net book will love the Neutrino. The Neutrino has been tentatively decided to been launched in the second quarter of 2009.