Ever wish you could find a 2.2 pound netbook with WiMax, two screens and no keyboard or touchpad, and the ability to give you backrubs? Intel and Asus want to know about it. The companies have partnered to launch a web site called WePC where anyone can describe their dream computer and draw a rudimentary […]
intel
Posted inNews
Intel: Atom demand still greater than supply
It’s been fairly widely reported that the Intel Atom shortage that hit this summer has been resolved, and it doesn’t look like there’s any shortage of computers with the Intel Atom CPU on the market today. But Intel CEO Paul Otellini says the company is still having trouble keeping up with demand. Otellini says he […]
Posted inNews
Report: Ultra Mobile Device sales to skyrocket
Ultra Mobile Computing devices, including netbooks, UMPCs, Mobile Internet Devices or MIDs currently account for $3.5 billion in sales. But ABI Research expects that number to grow to $27 billiion by 2013. That number doesn’t look too surprising to me, given the growing popularity of netbooks, which have only been around for a year or […]
Posted inNews
Intel buys Netbook.com, web portal coming soon?
Intel has purchased the Netbook.com domain. The page currently redirects users to Intel’s page describing the Intel Atom CPU. The page features a bit of news, some reviews, and information about the Atom processor. Just a few short months ago, there was no accepted term for low cost, low power subnotebooks like the Asus Eee […]
Posted inNews
5-second boot coming to netbooks?
Boot time matters, especially when it comes to laptops and netbooks. Today, when you pull a netbook out of your bag and hit the power button, it can take anywhere from 25 seconds to 2 minutes to load a working Windows or Linux desktop. In the not too distant future, that figure could be as […]
Posted innofollow
Netbook popularity could hurt notebook sales after all?
Industry insiders have tried to spin the growth of netbooks as a way to grow the overall market for notebooks – and consequently make more money for companies like Intel, Acer, Asus, and HP. But there may be another side to the story: Netbooks are cheaper than notebooks and they typically have lower profit margins. […]
Posted inNews
Dual Core Atom may be shipping, but not for netbooks
You may have heard that Intel is shipping the first dual core version of its low power Atom CPU. But there’s something you should know: it’s designed for lower power desktops or “nettops,” not low power laptops or “netbooks.” In other words, don’t expect Asus, Acer, Dell, or anyone else to go putting an Intel […]
Posted inNews
Intel unveils Classmate PC tablet
Intel has finally developed a version of the Classmate PC that I actually want to own. Granted, the Classmate PC and the Classmate 2 aren’t really designed for me or for you. They were designed for educational markets. But that hasn’t stopped companies like CTL from selling computers based on the Classmate design directly to […]
Posted inNews
Intel: Netbooks helping notebook sales match desktop sales
Intel has expected notebooks to overtake desktops in sales in the next few years for a while. But what Intel hadn’t originally counted on was the new low cost, ultraportable class of notebooks. It’s likely that most people who buy a cheap mini-notebook like the Asus Eee PC or Lenovo IdeaPad S10 are picking one […]
Posted inNews
AMD Athlon 64 2000+ bests the the Intel Atom – just not for netbooks
The folks over at Tom’s Hardware decided to cut through a bit of the buzz over Intel’s latest low-power CPU by comparing the Atom with a much older AMD Athlon 64 2000+ processor. The results? You can underclock the Athlon CPU a bit and get better performance and lower power consumption than you’d get from […]