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SSDs on the cheap from Intel and Kingston, your netbook will thank you
Jan 14th
One of the easiest ways to bump the speed of your netbook is to replace the hard drive from the platter-based HDD to a flash-based SSD. It gives you a speedier boot as well as faster application launching to keep its performance at par with your main computer.
Kingston announced that they will be including a cheaper, smaller SSD under the Kingston SSDNow V+ line. The SSD will be 2.5″ 30GB and will give you 180MB/s read speed and 50MB/s write speed. It’s going to be available in February and will be just $79.99 after rebates.
Intel is also offering a smaller capacity 40GB SSD under their X25-V Value line. It has a slower speed (170MB/s read, 35MB/s write) but it is already available now for ordering. You can grab it at Amazon for around $120.
A post from the Asus Eee PC blog.
SSDs on the cheap from Intel and Kingston, your netbook will thank you
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
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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