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Acer and ASUS may have new netbooks only after mid-August

Published on: 14th July, 2010

PC makers from Taiwan Acer and ASUS currently wait to sell off current netbook inventories prior to ship new products, says a recent report. Unnamed sources from the industry told to Digitimes that this would not happen until mid of August. The companies are waiting to see the reaction of the market before committing to [...]

Samsung enters tablets with Galaxy Tab

Published on: 6th June, 2010

Samsung South Africa has revealed the company’s plans for a tablet by posting a teaser of the first device of this kind. The Galaxy Tab would run the same customized Android 2.1 version as the Galaxy S, but its display would be much larger. The LCD would have 7 inches and a resolution similar to [...]

Dual-core Atom from Intel boosts netbook prices

Published on: 19th May, 2010

Plans to launch Intel’s next-generation dual-core Atom processors dedicated to netbooks during this summer is said, according to new information, to bring up notebook prices. Current netbooks based on Atom 1.6GHz N455 or 1.83GHz N475 are meant to cost from $250 to $350 in the near future. The new N550 with 1GB of DDR3 RAM [...]

HP to out the Compaq CQ1 all-in-one nettop early

Published on: 24th April, 2010

Hewlett Packard has released the Compaq Presario CQ1 all-in-one nettop earlier that it was expected. The new Presario CQ1-1020 nettop is equipped with a single-core 1.66GHz Intel Atom processor and a 1,366×768 resolution display 18.5-inch sized. There are onboard graphics handled by the integrated GMA 3150 chipset from Intel.
Standard RAM is 1GB large and can [...]

Intel releases the first Atom platform for home storage servers

Published on: 9th March, 2010

Intel has announced at CeBIT the release of its first Atom-class processor platform optimized for small office and home storage markets. Single- and dual-core Atoms, D410 and D510 respectively, are meant for this purpose and they will run on Microsoft Windows Home Server and Linux operating systems. Intel estimates up to 50 percent power reduction [...]

No fan to cool the Atom-based PC from Habey

Published on: 25th February, 2010

Habey has presented the new ultra-compact PC equipped with the Intel’s embedded Atom platform BIS-6620. The new PC has a small 4.5 square-inch footprint and a height of only 1.5 inches. It is considered a very green device with its total power consumption of less than 5.5W. The system is fanless and uses the low [...]

Classmate PC netbooks to be updated with Intel’s Pine Trail Atom

Published on: 25th January, 2010

Intel is expected to release soon the Classmate PC netbook series updated with its Pine Trail Atom processors. The chips are more efficient and quicker, but the netbooks will also be redesigned, beginning with the Convertible Classmate netbook, 10.1-inch sized. The goal is to make them lighter while keeping them robust enough to resist to [...]

Mini 210 notebook with Atom from HP at $321

Published on: 24th December, 2009

The new notebooks from HP, Mini 210 can already be found on eCost.com faster than their release date. Atom N450 CPU running on Pine Trail platform at a speed of 1.66GHz in found inside the new laptops. The 10.1-inch LCD display is protected by a glass panel and has a microphone and a camera integrated. [...]

No More Atom Chip Support in the Latest MAC OS X 10.6.2

Published on: 3rd November, 2009

Apple seems to have discontinued the support for Intel Atom processors in the beta version of Mac OS X 10.6.2. The testers of the new Mac OS X reveal that support has changed in a manner that breaks the compatibility with the Intel chips and this includes the ability of entering the sleep mode by [...]

New Chinese Intel Atom-based MID Released by Soyea

Published on: 3rd November, 2009

Available in black or white look and costing about $880 in China, the new released Mobile Internet Device Z5 is a Chinese company’s creation. Soyea has launched this 1.2GHz Intel Atom-based device with 1GB of built-in RAM. The handset has an 8GB solid state drive containing both Linux and Windows XP operating systems. Its memory [...]

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