Habey USA, a design and manufacturing company in the industrial PC field, has unveiled a new embedded computer system called the Habey WIT-1800. Providing a power efficient fan-less design based on Intel’s ATOM N450 and D410 processors plus a ICH8M South Bridge instead of the standard NM10 Express chipset.  The most prominent feature is the inclusion of  four built-in mini-PCIe…

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Two processors walk into a series of benchmarks… and it turns out it’s a bit tricky to tell which is which. Peter at Netbooked recently managed to get his hands on a Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3s with a shiny new 1.83GHz Intel Atom N470 processor and an S10-3 with the much more common 1.66GHz Intel Atom N450 CPU. And he put…

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The Dell Inspiron Mini 10 with an Atom N450 processor is just the latest Dell laptop to bear the Mini 10 name. It follows the Dell Mini 10 and Mini 10v, which had Atom Z520 and N270 processors, respectively. Performance-wise, the new Dell Inspiron Mini 10 is a lot like the recently retired Mini 10v. But thanks to the new…

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Haleron is best known for making off-the-wall products such as a netbook with two processors (not dual core, mind you, but two CPUs), and a netbook operating system that Haleron claims will run Linux, Google Android, and Windows apps. The company’s latest promise is a 10 inch tablet PC called the iLET that will ship on February 15th for $419….

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The Asus Eee PC 1005PE is the first netbook from Asus to have a 1.66GHz Intel Atom N450 Pine Trail processor. It will be available for purchase sometime in January, but the folks at Asus were kind enough to send me one to review in advance. On the outside, the netbook looks almost identical to the Eee PC 1005HA which…

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I haven’t heard anything from Samsung about any new or upcoming netbooks with Intel Atom Pine Trail processors. But French retailer Rue de Commerce is selling a new model called the Samsung N220 which appears to be an updated version of the Samsung N140. The main difference? the new model has a 1.66GHz Intel Atom N450 processor. Here’s a rundown…

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We’ve already seen reports that the new Intel Atom Pine Trail processors use less energy than current generation chips, while offering little to no performance boost. But if you’re a sucker for a good spec sheet, Intel’s got a few for you. The company has uploaded the technical specifications for its new Atom N450 mobile processor as well as the…

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The MSI Wind U135 is a 10 inch netbook with an Intel Atom Pine Trail processor. It probably won’t be available to purchase until January, but Laptop Magazine has already published a detailed review. In a nutshell, they decided that the keyboard is great, the touchpad is a’ight, and the battery is kind of meh. Or to put it another…

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Intel officially introduced the world to its next-generation Intel Atom N450 processor yesterday, and that apparently opened the floodgates, because over the last 48 hours, we’ve seen reports of more than a dozen new computer models. We’ll certainly be seeing far more announcements in the weeks leading up to CES in January, but here’s a roundup of all the new…

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Sure, there are at least half a dozen reviews of the Asus Eee PC 1005PE already out there. Testers have looked at the computer’s performance, battery life, aesthetics, and so forth. But you know what I haven’t seen yet? A good old fashioned article written by someone who took the time to rip the computer apart and look at the…

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You know that new HP Mini 210 netbook we keep hearing so little about? Here’s a whole lot more. eCost has gone and created a number of product pages for the laptop, with prices ranging from $321.99 to $398.99 Logichp has posted a series of promotional shots of the upcoming netbook It’s hard to tell for certain, but it looks like…

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MSI has begun showing off its first netbook with an Intel Atom N450 processor. Earlier today the company unveiled the MSI Wind U135, and this afternoon Laptop Magazine and Engadget both published the first hands-on looks at the netbook. The short version? It looks great and functions pretty much exactly like the Asus Eee PC 1005PE with the same processor….

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