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It looks like we should start seeing netbooks with NVIDIA’s Optimus technology soon. The Optimus platform allows netbooks with both integrated Intel graphics and dedicated NVIDIA ION graphics chips so shift seamlessly from one graphics card to the other depending on what you’re doing. Surfing the web? The lower power Intel graphics will kick in to extend your battery life. Watching an HD video or playing a 3D game? The ION graphics kicks in.

The folks at NetbookNews.de spotted an Asus Eee PC 1015N netbook at the NVIDIA tent at Computex. There aren’t a ton of details about this model yet, but it does have a sticker pointing out that it supports Optimus graphics switching.

The netbook also has a matte display and lid, a 6 cell battery, and a single access panel on the base for swapping out RAM. The Eee PC PC 1015N has a 10.1 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display and a 1.66GHz Intel Atom N450 processor. It runs Windows 7 Starter Edition and comes with 1GB of RAM and a 250GB hard drive. Netbook News.de reports that it should sell for around 400 Euros, or roughly $490 US.

We’d already heard that Asus may be launching a 12 inch notebook with NVIDIA Optimus technology called the Eee PC 1215N. It’s good to see that the company may have a 10 inch option as well.

Update: Netbook News has posted a hands-on video with the Eee PC 1015N and a brief look at some of the other crazy stuff going on at the NVIDIA tent. You can check it out after the break.

Update 2: The folks at Notebook Italia noticed something else intriguing about this netbook: It’s one of the first to use Intel’s new 1.5GHz Atom N550 dual core processor.

End of this month, the Shenzhen will be out of a N455 motherboard program, the first commercial launch of the program other than N455, is the “cottage king” BYD. If you think that only the car BYD, the battery would be wrong, BYD’s IT Foundry is second to none in the country, can do notebook ODM, domestic brands to come from the design and manufacture of BYD. BYD tough part is that, in addition to CPU, memory, hard drive, the screen can not manufacture, other parts by the majority of their production, this point and the global foundry giants like Foxconn. 2 years pass before the uproar of BYD attached stole 400 Foxconn employees, also resented Foxconn, BYD is stolen gear teeth.

The introduction of Intel ATOM N455 processor, is to be a little upgrade on the existing N450. N450/N455 are clocked 1.66GHz, design power is 5.5W. Biggest change, N455 program will use DDR3 memory, the memory frequency is 800MHz. Prior to the N450 only supports DDR2 667MHz memory. Moreover, N455 program will be able to directly upgrade to the N470, N550 processor.

Currently, BYD’s ATOM N455 motherboard package for the shell with superhuman Apple L50 (11.6-inch / 12 inch); L70 (13.3 inches); and Yu Chang and Hua Kai 12-inch Apple die. Is expected in June, when the market there will be programs with BYD Apple even