The Nokia Booklet 3G is one of the most interesting netbooks to hit the market this year. It’s the first netbook from Nokia, a company best known for producing cellphones. And it’s available with an integrated 3G modem for connecting to AT&T’s wireless broadband network. It also has Bluetooth, A-GPS, HDMI output, and a 1280 x 720 pixel, 10 inch…

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Intel’s Z series of Atom processors use less power than the Intel Atom N270/N280 chips currently found in most netbooks. And that means the handful of mini-laptops using a Z520 or similar processor can get longer run time with the same battery. But these machines also feel much more sluggish when performing CPU-intensive tasks like playing Flash video, or even…

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The Acer Aspire One 751 is the first mini-laptop from Acer to sport a power saving Intel Atom processor and an 11.6 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display. Unfortunately, Pocket Lint found that this high resolution display is much better suited to displaying images than high definition video, thanks to the pokey processor. While most netbooks use the 1.6GHz Intel…

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Intel announced two bits of news  its Atom line of low power, low cost processors this week. First, the company has entered an agreement with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. to help produce some of Intel’s Atom chips. This is the first time Intel has outsourced production of a CPU core. The deal will help Intel meet the high demand for…

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