AT&T and Lenovo Team Up to Put New Smartbook on the Market
Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs has recently announced AT&T and Lenovo will be teaming up to unveil a smartbook that uses a Qualcomm Snapdragon chip.
The new smartbook will be more functional than a smartphone, but less functional than a netbook. The display will be similar in size to that on a netbook, but like a smartphone, the new smartbook won’t have to be turned off. No more details are currently available for the product, but it is rumored to be officially unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, NV in January 2010.
Via Von.
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Intel Plans “Fast Transition” of Netbook Processors, Will Debut Pine Trail at CES 2010
Currently, most Intel processors installed in netbooks are the Atom N270 and Atom N280, but Intel is looking to quickly transition to the Pine Trail platform. Maybe you’ll want to hold off buying a netbook for now, as Intel’s new platform is expected to launch on December 21st of this year.
Intel wants to generate excitement for the new Pine Trail platform for netbooks by planning a press release in late December to disclose the details of the platform. Pine Trail will probably also be the talk of the town at the Consumer Electronics Show in January of 2010.
Here’s some details about the Pine Trail platform. The key component is the “Pineview,” which is a new CPU that integrates the Intel Atom N280 core with a DDR2 memory controller and graphics core. By integrating these last two parts with the CPU, the overall power consumption is reduced. The Pine Trail chipset, nicknamed “Tiger Point” handles the system I/O.
The three main chipsets that will debut at CES will include the 1.66GHz single-core N450 processor, the 1.66GHz single core D410 processor, and the 1.66GHz dual-core D510 processor, the former of which is for a netbook and the latter of which are for desktops.
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Batteries In MSI U110 and U115 Will Run All Day
The upcoming MSI Wind U110 and U115 are expected to provide all-day battery life – a welcome break from the four and five hour batteries of weeks past. MSI will be using Intel’s Z5xx series Atom CPUs to do so.
The netbooks will have 10-inch displays and be capable of running full speed for eight to ten hours before needing to recharge. The processor choice is a break from the overused Atom chip seen in almost all other netbooks on the market.
The U110 and U115 are not yet officially announced but are expected to debut at CES this year.
