Just when it seemed like netbooks were doomed to all be the exact same, chassis aside, Asus decided to unveil the Asus Eee PC 1000HE netbook that has been racking up almost nothing but rave reviews, and for good reason. And then Samsung decided to bring out the Samsung N120 netbook, a 10″ netbook with a 100% sized 12″ keyboard, and it’s good. So what else can come out now that would shake up the netbook community? How about one of those damn promised nVidia Ion based netbooks? Here’s where the Lenovo IdeaPad S12 netbook comes into play.
It looks like you can expect the NVIDIA Ion information to start rolling in any time now. I was doing some poking around and saw some benchmarks have been posted based on reference parts and figured with the recent talk about NVIDIA Ion and the Intel Atom N280/Intel GN40 that I wouldn’t be the only one intereted to hear how NVIDIA’s new platform performs. (more…)
This is just a quick blurb, but it’s all over the map by now that Intel has announced the Intel Atom N280. While it’s not a huge improvement over the current generation single core Atoms, it should offer better performance once it’s out. (more…)
I’m not sure how to read this, exactly, because it may be easier to overstate what is actually happening. Remember VIA and how I keep mentioning their Nano? The Nano is their CPU that actually puts up a fight against the Atom, and in many cases, eclipses it. Well, it’s been taking a long time for it to come out, and in light of HP dumping them for Intel, VIA’s netbook possibilities may be under fire. (more…)