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 last few years we’ve seen a lot of 11.6 inch laptops from major PC makers. Most of these new thin and light laptops have been budget machines that are designed to fill a niche between a low power netbook and a full-fledged laptop or desktop PC. They’re not usually designed as full-on desktop replacements, since they’re generally just…

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A funny thing has happened in the mini-laptop space over the past few years. With the success of low cost ultraportable netbooks, it seems like virtually every notebook you see with a 10 inch or smaller display is a low cost, low power machine, typically with an Intel Atom processor. But that doesn’t mean the era of the high end…

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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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