Eee PC

A few of us have been expecting a slight speed bump for the new Atom processors since we all know that Intel will often bump the speed as well as the features each time they introduce new CPUs. That doesn’t see to be the case for the new Pineview ones. Intel’s Client Platform Marketing Manager [...]

Most of the details of the recently announced netbooks from MSI are scarce, the same is true for the U140. Like the U130, U135 and U160, the U140 will also come equipped with the new Intel N450 Pineview CPU. Other details however are still pretty much known. It’s likely the U140 will come with a [...]

The MSI Wind U135 netbook, which runs on an Intel Atom N450 Pineview processor, has been priced at €299 in Europe. For the price, you get the MSI Wind U135 in all its Pinetrail Atom platform glory, a bundled 6-cell battery, Windows 7 Starter Edition and a 2-year “Pick-Up and Return” warranty. It looks like [...]

Some people might rave at the possibility that you could add NVIDIA’s Ion 2 via a mini-PCIe card to existing netbooks, but this writer doesn’t. Don’t get me wrong, I once enjoyed gaming on my netbooks too, but to have this sort of Frankenstein solution isn’t just irritating, it’s also rather pointless. A couple of [...]

Wondering whether it’s worth jumping on netbooks and nettops featuring Intel’s new Pinetrail Atom processors once they become available early next year? Two hardware sites have run down the numbers, comparing performance of the new Atom processors to the old ones, and are letting you, the reader decide for yourself. The recently announced Asus Eee [...]