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Samsung’s Pinetrail Atom netbooks get a closer look
Jan 11th
Samsung’s recently announced Pinetrail Atom netbooks all warrant a bit of your attention and Brad of Liliputing gives us a closer look at each and every one of them. As you probably already know, all three Samsung netbooks run on Intel’s Atom N450 processor which gives them longer battery life and less heat dissipation. But while the three netbooks have a lot of similarities, they all of course differ from each other in several little ways. The N210, the N220 and N150 netbooks are what Samsung will have in offer for the next few months, and if you want to know what makes one different from the other, check out the links below for the closer look.
Via Liliputing (1), (2)
A post from the Asus Eee PC blog.
Samsung’s Pinetrail Atom netbooks get a closer look
MSI’s Projector PC concept packs NVIDIA ION and Atom inside
Jan 11th
All-in-one PCs have been all the rage recently. But did you know that instead of a screen, a PC’s innards can be packed alongside an integrated projector as well? This is exactly what MSI is trying to accomplish with their Projector PC concept, and so far it looks like they have succeeded.
They’ve displayed a prototype at CES in Las Vegas and revealed a bit about its system specs. All in, it looks to be a nettop (with NVIDIA’s ION graphics chipset using an unidentified version of Intel’s Atom processor, 3.5mm headphone jack, HDMI out, four USB ports and a built-in DVD writer) combined with a mid-range projector that can output 1080p on a 60-inch diagonal space.
MSI plans to launch this Projector PC by the third quarter of this year, so if playing Facebook games at 1080p is your thing, watch out for it then.
Via Gizmodo
A post from the Asus Eee PC blog.
MSI’s Projector PC concept packs NVIDIA ION and Atom inside
Why Atom processors aren’t getting any faster
Jan 10th
A few of us have been expecting a slight speed bump for the new Atom processors since we all know that Intel will often bump the speed as well as the features each time they introduce new CPUs. That doesn’t see to be the case for the new Pineview ones.
Intel’s Client Platform Marketing Manager David McCloskey explains that they decided not to increase the speed since it “doesn’t need to be any faster.” For the most part, he says that the focus for this market segment, which includes netbooks, is price and power. A faster processor and you leap into notebook territory price ranges, plus you need bigger batteries to deliver the same battery life, another increase in cost.
The is however a rumored 1.8GHz Atom due to be out in the middle of the year but Intel didn’t comment on it.
I agree that they need to focus on not making it costlier since a netbook for most buyers is a second computer. The next step would be to make them cheaper, I think, so that even more of us can get a netbook in our hands.
source APCmag
A post from the Asus Eee PC blog.
Why Atom processors aren’t getting any faster
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