While it’s a bit early to say whether Intel’s CULV platform is the new Atom, (there are still plenty of 10 inch netbooks with Intel Atom processors out there), there’s no doubt that the Consumer Ultra Low Voltage platform is making a splash — with PC makers at least. Acer, Asus, HP, Dell, Lenovo, Toshiba, and other companies are all…

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The HP Pavilion DV2 was the first laptop to adopt the AMD Neo platform, which provides significantly better CPU and graphics performance than you’ll get from an Intel Atom powered netbook. Unfortunately, with great power comes not-so-great battery life, and the DV2 was only able to get around 2.5 hours per charge. Now HP is rolling out the successor to…

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