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Intel Ships Atom N2600 and N2800, Cedar Trail Netbooks to Come in Early 2012

Intel has started shipping its third-generation Atom chips for netbooks. The company says that the first Cedar Trail-based devices will be unveiled in early 2012, with some coming from Asus, HP, Acer, Lenovo, Samsung and Toshiba. The new Intel chips consist of the 1.60GHz Atom N2600 and 1.86GHz N2800 processors for netbooks, and the 2.1GHz [...]

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Intel Atom Powered Windows 8 Tablet Coming 2nd Half of 2012

Intel shipped Cedar Trail powered netbooks last week, now it’s time for speculation time on when is their next generation of processors are going to be released. As of this moment, the Oak Trail tablets are struggling in the market because of its thick profile, heat issues and horrible battery life.   Medfield tablets and [...]

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Will Atom be Rebranded?

Atom is probably going gone. Intel, according to rumors, are considering to rebrand the Atom chip lineup. Atom chips show sliding sales. The company seem to be blaming poor brand image. Of course, early Atom chips were superslow and had been slammed by reviewers all over the place. The rebranding will affect the N-, D-, [...]

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Next-gen Netbooks are Tablets?

According to reports, Intel is hoping that computer makers will start designing netbooks and tablets as one device. Intel’s upcoming update on their Atom chips, the Cedar Trail M Atom 32nm, will be fitting for the traditional 10-inch screens and keyboards, but could also be used by different form factors like sliders and convertibles as these chips are [...]

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Acer Aspire One Happy 2 review

Tablet computers have risen to take away the spotlight from netbooks in the eyes of most consumers nowadays. However, there are still a lot of things that netbooks can do that tablets simply can’t. Consider the Acer Aspire One Happy 2. It offers half a terabyte of local storage while weighing little more than a [...]

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