Netbook Review UK

Looks like Intel may get some real competition for their market dominating Intel Atom netbook processors.  AMD is finally going to accept netbooks and make a dedicated chip specifically for netbook, in their “Fusion” range of chips, which will be released sometime next year in 2011.

This new netbook based chip is said to have a power consumption in the 10-15 watt range (the current AMD chips draw about 35 watts) and have integrated graphics good enough to prompt them to say “you won’t need the Ion graphics to give it half-decent performance”. It will be aimed at netbook / notebooks between 10” – 12” in size.

Source: Hardware Central

JooJoo tablet Fcc filing

The JooJoo tablet, formerly known as Techcrunch’s ‘Crunchpad’ (long story) hass just hit the FCC with full documentation and a teardown and there’s a surprise!  It’s a NVIDIA Ion GPU – answering some questions regarding how they would get the tablet to playback HD video.   It will be paired with the normal accompliment of an Atom N270, SSD,WIFI and an optional 3G card.

We’ll be interested to see how this old-gen N270 processor and Nvidia Ion car impact battery life.   Hopefully there will be a revised version soon with Intel’s Pine Trail chip and NVIDIA’s Optimus-based Ion 2.

There’s a few more pics after the break, courtesy of Engadget.

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There’s been quite a bit of news on the Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3t – we did a roundup of the stories here and had an unboxing video as well.  Now, Joanna over at Engadget, has put up another review of the  10.1” Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3t tablet netvertible.  The model tested had an Atom N470 processor, 4-cell battery and Windows 7 Home Premium priced at $649 USD (~434 GBP).

Pros:
- Nice weight, comfortable to use in two hands.
- No potruding battery from the back.
- Capacitive touchscreen is responsive and flicking through web pages is enjoyable.
- 4-Cell battery lasted a solid 4.5 hours.

Cons:
-  Atom N470 felt sluggish, seems slower than the HP Mini 210 with the default Atom N450 processor.
- Built-in accelerometer worked poorly Joanna resorted to manually pressing the button on the screen bezel for rotation.
- Keyboard felt cramped and flexy, trackpad is too small.
- Poor viewing screen angles.

So, some definite plus points, but also some serious drawbacks for this netvertible that looked so impressive on paper.  Check ou the full Lenovo S10-3t review at Engadget if you’d like to read more.

Lenovo appears to be adding a  WiMAX option to the IdeaPad U150  inch thin and light notebook. Wireless Goodness spotted an FCC filing for the U150 that containes a wireless card supporting not only 802.11b/g/n WiFi wireless, but also WiMAX mobile broadband.

The Lenovo IdeaPad U150 features an 11.6 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display and an Intel CULV processor. It runs Windows 7 Home Premium, and falls into the category  called thin and light notbooks – generally larger displays than netbooks, and more powerful Intel CULV processors.

No word on pricing or a release date for the WiMAX version.

If you can do without the 802.11N wireless, and Windows 7, the Asus Eee PC 1001P may be the right netbook for you.  Launched as the little brother to the recently launched Eee PC 1005PE, the 1001P shares the same 1.66GHz Intel Atom N450 processors, 1GB of RAM, and“Seashell” style case design.   Brad, over at Liliputing took a quick look at this new Asus netbook today, and seems genearally impressed with it.  He notes that it has a matte (non-glossy) display, as well case lid and palm rest.  (no fingerprints!)

The best feature, however, may be the price.  Amazon UK currently has it listed for a bargain price of just £229.00 with free shipping.

Check out the unboxing video after the break.

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