Olevia’s Underwhemling P10 Netbook
Olevia has released a new device for its netbook line, the P10. It holds all the specifications that are expected of any netbook, and adds nothing to differentiate itself from the masses. The only expected highlight of Olevia’s P10 netbook will be its slightly lower price range. This will be the netbooks sole advantage that may manage to attract customers to the product.
The netbook offers:
- 10.1-Inch Display
- Intel Atom N270 1.6GHz Processor
- 1GB RAM
- 160 GB Hard Drive
- Wi-Fi
- Linux or Windows Operating System
This isn’t Olevias first go-round in the netbook market, as it released the Yones X11A a few months back.
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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.
Via RegHardware.
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Intel Atom N450 Netbook Processor Rumored to Be Launching At Start of 2010
Intel’s been developing their next batch of Atom processors for a while and it’s likely that they may be releasing their first Intel Atom Pine Trail netbook chipset in January of 2010. In fact, the 1.66GHz Intel Atom N450 processor is rumored to launch on January 3rd. Netbooks with N450 chipsets may follow shortly thereafter.
This two-chip platform requires much less space within a physical netbook, something that manufacturers are quite excited about. There shouldn’t be much difference in netbook battery life or performance though, as the processor is roughly the same as previous Intel Atom versions.
The selling of the Intel Atom N450 chipset will be $64, $20 more than the current Intel Atom N270 chipset.
Via Fudzilla.
Intel Atom N270 To Be Major Contender in Netbook Processors for Rest of 2009
It’s looking likely that the Intel Atom N270 processor will continue to dominate the netbook processor market for the rest (or at least most) of 2009. The launch of the succeeding processor, the Atom N450, is currently rumored to be postponed until the first quarter of 2010.
Furthermore, it is also rumored that Intel is planning on issuing the last order notice for their Atom N270 processor in January of 2010 and will phase out this processor by March of the same year.
Via Digitimes.
Finally, A New Chip: The Intel Atom N280
We’ve all become used to seeing the same N270 version of the Intel Atom in about every netbook around, even the clones. The Snapdragon chip could offer some variety, but that’s still a while off. Perhaps we’ve accepted that this is the way things are going to be – perhaps we’re so frustrated we just don’t care anymore. Thankfully, Intel has decided to upgrade and shake things up a bit!
The new Intel chip is the Atom N280, to be made available as soon as Q2 or Q3 this year. The new chip will be introduced in netbooks by ASUS, Acer, and Gigabyte, some seriously big names in the netbook business. ASUS has already developed a system based on the new CPU, introduced at CES 2009.
The N280 will get a new chipset upgrade too, replacing the older 945 GSE. That version is the one we’re so sick of. The new chipset is the GN40, which will provide a similar core frequency as the old one at 1.66 GHz. Its FSM runs at 667 MHz. The combination is expected to boost netbook performance in the near future, but there will definitely be a consequence to the cost of the machines.
According to Digitimes, the Atom N280 will cost “$60-65 in thousand-unit tray quantities,” whereas the Atom N270 costs $46.
While we deride it, the Intel Atom N270 was wildly successful in 2008. It has been credited with much of the speedy growth of netbooks in general.
Via Softpedia.
