Eee PC

Many have been disappointed with the graphics capabilities of netbooks, especially the lack of a GPU. Users are missing out on HD videos on the internet, watching high-def movies and playing some of the newer games. And so NVIDIA and Broadcom offered their own solution to this problem. Netbooked has the results from the bout [...]

There have been kind of a glut in supply when it comes to Broadcom’s mini PCIe Crystal HD video accelerator. Who new people would be going off and hacking their netbooks left and right to get high-def into their tiny computers? It’s even driven prices up fourfold to $100. Logic Supply went out and remedied [...]

A buyer of the Samsung N220 in UK got quite a pleasant surprise when he found out that the model he bought had a Broadcom Crystal HD decoder for playing HD video and games. It’s not mentioned in any stats and specs for the device anywhere and it seems other countries don’t have this available [...]

As opposed to Lenovo’s point of view, Broadcom has pretty lofty plans for the tablet market. After all, video is what makes tablets run and they make the chips to run them. They envision that tablets should be able to handle pretty much anything – calls, browsing, home remote control, videos and everything else. I [...]

Adding a Broadcom HD video accelerator to a netbook is nothing new and with some netbooks, it’s as easy as just plugging it into a free mini PCI-e slot. For other netbooks however, it’s slightly harder and requires some soldering. Unfortunately the Eee PC 901 falls into the second category. Traditionally, the mod is done [...]