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Intel ‘Cedar Trail’ Atom Platform Launches

Intel has announced the availability of the latest mobile platform based on Intel Atom, known by the codename Cedar Trail. Designed for mobile devices of small size and compact, with an improved battery life and an affordable price, the new platform introduces several new features in netbooks. These devices - available early 2012 - based on the new platform will be introduced to the market by major computer manufacturers, including Acer, Asus, HP, Lenovo, Samsung and Toshiba. The dedicated...

Canonical With Ubuntu Hit Eee PCs, Take Over From Microsoft

The Asus Eee PC Series, 1001PXD, 1011PX and 1015PX are about to get Ubuntu configurations. With the Eee PCs Linux from Canonical with Ubuntu reach a larger audience. Canonical representatives start againts windows domination on netbooks, and Ubuntu is competing with Microsoft in this netbook area, not other Linux distribution, will with a trio of Atom notebooks Canonical with Ubuntu Linux enough win the war on Windows?, let's the audience to prove...

This Point was Forgotten by HP 210 Support

Looks like HP has confused its product release order of operations. Without even a hint of an official announcement, the HP 210 netbook has appeared in two quadrants of the internet: retail and troubleshooting. The former is eCost, which claims the 10.1-inch matte black portable is in stock for $390 and touts a 1.66GHz Intel Atom N450 (yep, that's Pine Trail), integrated graphics, 1GB RAM, 250GB HDD, and a 6-cell battery. As for the latter, we need look no further than HP's own support pages...

Samsung N510

Pre-orders for the Samsung N510 have been taken recently, where this NVIDIA ION-powered netbook will also come with some beefy specifications such as an Intel Atom 1.66GHz processor, 2GB RAM, a 250GB hard drive, Wi-Fi N connectivity, Bluetooth support, VGA, HDMI and Ethernet jacks alongside the customary trio of USB 2.0 ports. It will be powered by Windows 7 Home Premium and will retail for around $575 and $583 at the...

Sagem Spiga

With all the netbooks nowadays hovering around the 10.1-inch display design, would you want something smaller? We’re not sure if Sagem is taking things to the extreme with its Spiga, but if you want something that will fit into your sling bag without any problems; the 4.8-inch Spiga will certainly fit the bill. It’s powered by a 1.1GHz Intel Atom processor, sports Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 3G and a webcam. It might seem a tad pricy at 499 Euros ($740) though. Check out a video of it in action...