Eee PC

We don’t hear a lot about netbooks these days, and yet the category is arguably what set the whole consumer electronics industry on the fast track to delivering smaller, more powerful, and longer lasting devices for mobile computing. The guys over at Notebook Check recently put one of the latest netbooks from Asus’s stable through [...]

    Phoronix compared a group of devices with Intel and ARM processors. Ubuntu Linux 12.04 alpha was used as  the OS for running a bevy of benchmarks. Ubuntu is an obvious choice as there are several versions of the OS that are optimized for both architecture. The benchmarks are not perfect though as the [...]

There is supposed to be leak showing the Intel roadmap for their Atom processors. Intel puts pricing guidelines for other device categories.   According to the presentation, Intel encourages pricing for Atom-based smartphones and netbooks between $199 and $299. Moving up, the tablet could fall between $399 to $499. Hybrid devices like sliders or laptops [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]