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Samsung NC215S For Preorder

10. July 2011 | by Jonas

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Samsungs’s NC215S offers some serious solar technology, with photovoltaic cells across the lid.  It promises to bump the runtime up an hour for every two hours of suntime.  For unplugged computing in the desert, this might be the ticket. It was first announced last month, and now Amazon has it up for preorder. Aside from the [...]

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Samsung Sliding PC 7 Series

2. May 2011 | by Jonas

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Samsung Sliding PC 7 Series

Samsung had come out with their 9 series of notebooks, and they are one of a few notebooks that can rival the MacBook Air in terms of sleekness.  While it may please the Windows camp, unfortunately the price tag is up in Apple territory.  It was promised that their would be a lower grade 7 [...]

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Low Power Fusion

31. January 2011 | by Jonas

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Low Power Fusion

“How low can you go?” would be a reasonable question asking about power consumption, and still having a usable chip worth putting into a device.  For example full scale desktop processors consume 125 W, and standard notebooks get this down to 35 W.  A dual core Atom N550 goes down to 8.5 W.  The single [...]

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Intel Atom 2012…”Cedar Trail”

6. December 2010 | by Jonas

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Intel Atom 2012…”Cedar Trail”

Intel’s Atom processor, at the heart of so many netbooks had been an ideal blend of power efficient performance when it debuted back in 2008.  However, despite plenty of model number changes, the latest Atoms, with the exception of the dual core N550, really have had no significant performance increase since introduction. With AMD’s Bobcat due [...]

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