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OpenFrame 7 is an Atom-powered home remote

The Atom processor from Intel has found its way to more devices than just standard computers and notebooks. They’ve shown up in cars, robots and even a microwave! Here’s another new device, one that lets you control your home appliances more easily. The OpenFrame 7 from OpenPeak, which just passed the FCC, looks like a [...]

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Psystar get injunction from Apple

Psystar allow consumers to purchase laptops, PCs and more recently netbooks, with Apple Mac OS X installed on the machine. After a legal battle from Apple over the use of the operating system, Psystar have now got a permanent injunction, preventing them from selling any devices with an Apple OS. The company is also banned [...]

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Hackintosh patch allows OS X on netbooks again

With the recent update from Apple for Mac OS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard, it prevented netbooks from running the Operating System. Users with hackintosh netbooks were advised to not update in order to continue running Snow Leopard. Thankfully a patch has now been released allowing hackintosh users to update their machines. The patch has been [...]

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Intel to Stop Selling Atom Z Processors to Netbook Makers

Aside from the usual N270/N280 processors that Intel supplies to netbook markers, there is also another type of Intel Processors which may not be as popular as the Atom but is still is useful for netbooks. And this is the Intel Z-series processors. Let’s, the Sony Vaio P has this CPU, and so does BenQ [...]

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Netbooks with Intel Atom N450 to get September showing

In September, Intel will be holding an event in San Francisco showing off a number on new technologies. One that’ll interest netbook users, is that netbooks will be shown with the N450 CPU. Today’s netbooks with an Intel CPU use either the N270 or N280 which is pretty much just as fast as the upcoming [...]

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