Jetway JBC600C99-52W: the Nettop

For all of you who don’t get the Johnny Cash reference in the title, Johnny sings a song called “A Boy Named Sure” about a young fellow whose father gives him a girl’s name to make him tough enough for the hard life ahead.  Jetway had a similar approach to naming their latest nettop (the JBC600C99-52W.)

The box comes equipped with a dual-core Atom D525 processor for speedy performance and (1.8GHz) with an ION2 graphics chipset for further speed and performance enhancement.  It also sports gigabit Ethernet and 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi built-in. Unfortunately, there’s no internal storage what-so-ever on this device.  That means you’re going to have to supply your own DDR2 memory to the party.  Still, at $270, this little machine may just give you the performance you need without putting the strain on your wallet.