Netbook Review UK

Intel has officially introduced a new low power Atom N435 processor for budget netbooks. Intel’s announcement  comes after Asus announced their budget netbook, theAsus Eee PC X101 $200 netbook and the Lenovo IdeaPad S100, both which use the chip. PC World reports that Acer will also offer a netbook with the new chip soon.

The Intel Atom N435 is a 1.33 GHz single core chip with 512K of cache and an estimated TDP of about 5W.. As expected, it’s basically the newest and slowest member of the Intel Atom Pine Trail family. The next step up the ladder are the 1.66 GHz Intel Atom N450 and N455 chips which were introduced last year and which have TDP’s of 5.5W and 6.5W respectively.

The key marketing point of the Atom N435 is price. It’s  a budget chip which makes dirt cheap netbooks possible, especially in combination with the open-source (and free) MeeGo Linux, an operating system optimized for Atom and other low power chips.