What do you get if you take an Acer AspireRevo nettop and stuff it with a 1.66GHz Intel Atom N280 processor but leave out the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics processor? Apparently what you get is an Acer Veriton N260G. The N260G has the same small size and diamond-shape as Acer’s previous nettop. While this nettop might have the Blu-Ray-friendly NVIDIA…

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Intel’s upcoming GN40 chipset is designed to provide improved HD video playback. But what exactly does that mean? You can already watch plenty of 720p content on a netbook with an Intel Atom N270 CPU and 945GSE chipset. According to Fuzilla, an Intel product manager says the new Intel Atom N280/GN40 chipset will be able to handle 1080p playback. But…

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When I spotted one of the first netbooks with the new Intel Atom N280 at CES, it was paired with Intel’s new GN40 chipset which provides hardware decoding for 720p HD videos. And so I, like a lot of other people, assumed that the N280 chip would always be bundled with the GN40 chipset.  But the folks at Laptop Magazine…

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Intel is confirming that the new Intel Atom N280 processor with the GN40 chipset is now shipping. The news shouldn’t come as a huge surprise, since the Asus Eee PC 1000HE which uses the new chipset is already available for preorder. The new CPU has a top clock speed of 1.66GHz, which makes it a tiny bit faster than the Intel…

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