Pop in the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco next week, and you are done locally tailored, in the midst of the chips and motherboards, a fun little number from Toshiba in the form of a half-terabyte hard drive for netbooks.

The MKxx56GSY series of drives are 2.5-inch SATA models running min at 7,200 rpm all the way up to 500 GB.

Toshiba says the entire range of HDDs is 13 percent faster than its predecessor and that the new models are much easier to electricity.

Netbook sales booming

While the drives fit into any machine is Toshiba, which they probably as options for builders netbook position, and it extends even to the application in its booming from ultra-lights.

Recent sales figures show, Toshiba Netbook, with around 10 percent of U.S. laptop shipments only three months after the first model of the company went on sale outside Japan.

via eWeek

Swordfish is a concept that includes up to two processors netbook coming. The swordfish Net netbook has two dual Intel Atom-based processors in a tiny package.

In contrast to have dual-core processors with two cores running in a single package, this netbook has two Intel Atom N270 1.60GHz processors. This approach attracts a lot of debate because in addition to performance improvements, the Netbook consumes a lot of energy and thus lower battery life. It also has 2GB of RAM and a 160GB hard drive. It is a dual-Bluetooth, 3G WCDMA Card, Wi-Fi, 4-in-1 card reader and 1.3MP webcam. The 10.2-inch screen offers a native 1024 x 600 resolution. It is compatible with Windows XP Home and the 3-cell battery 2450mAh is only 2-3 hours of battery life.

The netbook weighs 3kg (kg) 1.35 and is available for purchase.