Last Week's Highlights: CeBIT 2009, New Apple Macs and Winki

Mar 8 2009, 9:00am CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

CeBIT 2009 did not bring that many highlight besides several interesting Asus announcements. Asus unveiled the upcoming Asus Eee PC 1008HA, which looks pretty nice and will make your current netbook look very old. Asus also showed the coolest looking motherboard at the CeBIT dubbed Asus Marine Cool and a dual screen notebook concept.
MSI announced Winki, but left more question marks than information with this new Linux based Internet device.
Apple made almost more waves this week than CeBIT with announcement of the new 2009 iMac, Mac mini and Mac Pro.

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Asus Eee PC 1008HA unveiled
Asus unveiled the Eee PC Shell rumored new Eee PC 1008HA at the CeBIT 2009.
The Asus Eee PC 10008HA is 1 inch thick and weighs 1.1kg, Eee PC netbook with new stylish looks.

New iMac 2009 unveiled
The new iMacs feature the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics or NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 and start at $1,199.
The available screen sizes are 20 and 24 inches. You can choose between four models differing by configuration.

New Mac mini 2009 unveiled
Apple makes many Mac mini fans happy today with the release of the long anticipated new Mac mini 2009.
The Mac mini feature the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics and start at $599. The NVIDIA GeForce 9400M brings up to five times faster graphics performance to the Mac mini.

JVC Everio GZ-X900 aka Everio X hybrid HD Camera unveiled
JVC unveiled the new Everio GZ-X900 that features a complete redesign and some cool new features.
JVC calls the Everio GZ-X900 or Everio X a hybrid. Seems this term gets a bit over used in the camera world. Samsung announced yesterday the hybrid Samsung NX cameras, meaning something different with hybrid.

The Beatles: Rock Band for PS3, Wii and Xbox 360 unveiled
Beatles fans can start getting exciting for the new Rock Band release coming on 9th of September featuring Beatles songs.
Apple Corps, Ltd. (the other Apple company) Harmonix and MTV Games announced today that the world-wide release of The Beatles: Rock Band music video game for Xbox 360, Wii and PS3 will be launching September 9th.

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