Intel has added three new chips to its line of Sandy Bridge processors. While most of the company’s laptop chips use between 25W and 35W, the new chips have a TDP of just 17W. That’s about twice what you’d expect from the latest Intel Atom chips, but it should be good enough to offer better battery life and lower heat…

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Over the past year we’ve seen a number of thin and light laptops with Intel CULV processors hit the streets. Some of the most popular chips are the Intel Celeron SU2300, Intel Pentium SU4100, and Intel Core 2 Duo SU7300 dual core processors, although there are a few other models as well. What these chips have in common is that…

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What do you get if you rip out the guts of an Acer Aspire Timeline 1810 laptop and replace the CULV processor with a newer, faster, Core i5 chip? Apparently what you get is the Acer Aspire TimelineX 1830T. Macles has uncovered the first photos and details about this upcoming notebook. It will reprotedly have an 11.6 inch, 1366 x…

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While the Intel Atom line of chips may reign supreme in the netbook space, I’ve become a pretty big fan of Intel’s CULV chipset over the last few months. These low power chips show up in thin and light computers including a number I’ve recently reviewed such as the Asus UL20A, Dell Inspiron 11z, and Acer Aspire 1410. While they…

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