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Acer Timeline Update
The Acer Aspire Timeline series was the answer to underpowered netbooks; for a little more dough, these CULV’s had more power, in a still compact package, albeit a little larger. While they have been big sellers, they were due for an update. The Acer Aspire Timeline 1830T was spotted at the FCC. It is anticipated to [...]
Continue reading...AMD To Play In Netbook Space… Eventually
11. March 2010 | by Jonas
AMD, so far, has stayed out of the netbook space with their processor offerings. Considering the razor thin margins that Intel makes on the cheapie Atom chips, this likely is a good thing. However, Intel deliberately handicaps the Atom to minimize the performance. Further on up in power, they offer the CULV chips, but they are [...]
Continue reading...Atom Dual Core: The N500
8. March 2010 | by Jonas
The Intel Atom has been made in a dual core version for the desktop space. However, with few exceptions, these are mostly used in nettops. For the netbook space, from the N270 to the N470, these have all been single core chips. This has suited Intel just fine; after all if you want more performance, [...]
Continue reading...Coby NBPC722
3. March 2010 | by Jonas
If you long for the days of a 7″ netbook, then the product Engadget spotted might just be for you. Actualy, I’ll skip right to the punchline, and spare you the suspense- it is only $85. I have to admit at the current price of two tanks of gas, my standards go way down, and [...]
Continue reading...Averatec N1200
2. March 2010 | by Jonas
Averatec announced an update to their netbook line today, better known as the N1200 series. While the 10.1″ screen with 1024 x 600 resolution may not make these products stand out, the Intel Atom N450 is also in the category of vanilla ice cream. However, there are two things that make the N1200 worth a [...]
Continue reading...Freescale Prowave Android Tablet
22. February 2010 | by Jonas
This is a video that came out of the Mobile World Congress, brought to us by our colleagues over at Netbook News. It looks to be a prototype, but I can definitely see why they liked what they saw. By combining an ARM Freescale chip, with the Android OS, the price should be reasonable. The [...]
Continue reading...Intel’s Newest Atom: Oak Trail
17. February 2010 | by Jonas
Most netbooks use the N series of Atom processors. The venerable N270 and N280 recently got “upgraded” to the N450, and upcoming N470 chips. (I put upgraded in quote because so far they are not all that different in performance). However, when you want the absolute lowest power consumption in an x86 processor, it is [...]
Continue reading...Acer 532g
16. February 2010 | by Jonas
When the Ion platform got shoehorned onto the standard atom netbook, it sought to address a major shortcoming of netbooks- namely graphics capabilities. While Ion does push up the graphics of a netbook, it does so at the expense of battery life. Not everyone wants to make this tradeoff. Now Acer is introducing the 532g which [...]
Continue reading...Asus T101MT Tablet
15. February 2010 | by Jonas
While it was known that Asus was planning on releasing a tablet convertible, the device was officially announced today. The Intel Atom N450 processor and 10.1″ LCD are standard netbook parts. However, it will be available with either 1 GB or 2 GB of RAM. Similarly, it will have the option of a 160 GB [...]
Continue reading...Compaq Airlife 100
12. February 2010 | by Jonas
With the cookie cuter sameness of netbooks, when something, make that anything, comes out that doesn’t run Windows XP, or Starter Edition, powered by an Atom N270 (or more recently N450), it definitely makes a splash and gets us to pay attention. The Compaq Airlife 100 does break the usual mold. The 10″ LCD display, and [...]
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Microsoft Courier Surfaces Again
16. March 2010 | by Jonas
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