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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 [...]

Future Atom-based Netbooks Supposed to have 2GB of RAM

Published on: 1st November, 2009

Intel and Microsoft have been accused for trying to limit the performance of low-cost ultraportables, such as netbooks, by imposing specifications determined rather by protection purposes than by technical reasons. Intel has always limited its Atom processors to 1GB of RAM, while Microsoft, during the Vista era, forced most PC builders to use this expensive [...]

VIA Nano-Powered Lenovo IdeaPad S12 Netbook Outperforms Atom

Published on: 21st August, 2009

Lenovo and VIA have released new netbook which seems to become a good alternative to Intel Atom-powered devices. The IdeaPad S12 (12.1-inch screen, 1GB of RAM, 160GB SATA hard drive, six-cell battery, Windows XP Home, and VIA Nano ULV 2250 processor at 1.3 GHz), not a real netbook, proved in tests that it can keep [...]