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Intel’s Classmate Netbook gets Pinetrail

admin — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:09:52 +0000

Initially born as a reponse to the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) XO Laptop, Intel’s Classmate design has been around since early 2008, and are designed as durable, relatively low cost machines that are ideal for classroom settings. The earliest models weren’t all that exciting, but over the years Intel has spruced things up with a larger keyboard and touchpad and a touchscreen display and swivel allowing you to use the netbook in tablet mode.

Introduced today at CeBIT 2010, the latest Intel Classmate has a 10.1 inch touchscreen display, a 1.66GHz Intel Atom N450 processor, along with a rubberized case containing a handle which makes it easy to carry.It also has a resistive touchscreen taht uses a stylus (no multi touch unfortunately). A cool design feature is that the webcam at the top of the display can be rotated, which means you can use it whether the Classmate PC is in tablet or notebook mode.

You can check out a hands-on video of the new Classmate PC fromNetbook News after the break.

via Engadget

Intel to Launch1.83ghz Atom N470 Next Week

admin — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 08:50:38 +0000

Hold on to your hats, faster netbooks are coming. Intel will be formally announcing the Intel Atom N470 processor come Monday. The new Atom N470 processor has a clock speed of 1.83GHz vs 1.66GHz on the N450 processor that’s standard with new Pinetrail netbooks.

There have already been some netbooks announced with the new process, notably the Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3t and hopefully we’ll see quite a few more. Don’t expect a night and day difference, but the extra .20ghz should help a bit, although it will command a price premium of 20 or 30 quid.

Source: CNET

Intel to add DDR3 RAM Support to new Intel Atom N455 and N475

admin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:02:59 +0000

Fudzilla reports that Intel will be adding DDR3 memory support to the 1.83GHz N470 and 1.6GHz N450 chips, and at the same time renaming them N455 and N475 . Both of those chips are expected to maintain their current TDP (power consumption) ratings, and both are expected to launch in Q3 of this year. It’s certainly not a huge upgrade, and it’s only going to make a minor difference in speed but at least some progress is being made. Now, where are the dual core netbook processors Intel!?

Via Fudzilla

FCC Reveals Atom N470 1.83GHz version of the Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3t

admin — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:23:35 +0000

Coming through the FCC this week, a drawing of a Lenovo netbook beating the designation “Lenovo 0647″. A little further research brings up an Amazon listing for the Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3, which is available for pre-order for $379.99 in the US. The best part of the listing? It’s the processor speed listed as 1.83GHz which means it’s the first sign of the eagerly anticipated Pinetrail Atom N470 processor.

It’s also already available for order from Lenovo but not estimated to ship until mor than 4 weeks out. The rest of the specs include 2GB of RAM, a 250GB hard drive, ships with Windows 7 Home Premium, and costs about $100 more than the base model, at $650.

Fresh Intel PineView Rumours – N470 Coming Soon, DDR3 RAM Support

admin — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:54:36 +0000

Intel is set to launch its new Pine Trail Atom platform in January and we’ve alraedy heard that the upcoming Intel N450 will clock in at 1.66ghz and the N470 at 1.83ghz. Also, this new breed of Pineview chips, based on the Pinetrail platform, will be smaller, more energy efficient, and will integrate the CPU, graphics, and memory controllers onto a single chip.

Now, we learn via Fudzilla, that Intel will be adding support for DDR3 memory to the Pinetrail platform later in 2010. It’s rumoured that the N450 and N470 netbook processors will debut earlier, possibly in January or February of 2010, but with DDR2 memory initially. The new desktop processors aren’t left out either and the single core Intel Atom D410 and dual core Atom D510 will launch in early 2010 with DDR2 memory, and move to DDR3 like their netbook counterparts.

For instance, there’s the upcoming Intel Atom N470, which Fudzilla says should launch in the first quarter of 2010, possibly in February. While the Atom N450 clocks in at 1.66GHz, the N470 processor will reportedly have a faster clock speed of about 1.83GHz, and a price tag that’s about $20 higher.

Fudzilla also reports that Intel will be adding support for DDR3 memory to its Pine Trail processors later in 2010. Pine Trail chips integrate the CPU, graphics, and memory controllers onto a single chip, which means that you’ll get a new model number when DDR3 support is added. So the single core Intel Atom N450 and N470 processors launched early in 2010 will be updated to N45x and N47x models capable of using faster memory.

Intel is also reportedly adding DDR3 support to its desktop Atom processors, including the single core Intel Atom D410 and dual core Atom D510. At launch, these chips will support DDR2 memory, like their netbook counterparts.

Acer will Debut Nvidia Ion 2 Netbook with Pine Trail Processor in 2010

admin — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 04:53:31 +0000

Nvidia Ion 2 will arrive in 2010

From Digitimes we learn today that NVidia has received orders for ION 2 based chips from Acer designed to support Pine Trail processors. If the rumour holds true (and you never quite know for sure with Digitimes, it means we’ll see a Pine Trail processor’ed netbook with Nvidia’s Ion 2 graphics chip from Acer in 2010. The ION 2 graphics platform is said to offer more than 2x the power of the current ION platform and will include support for switchable graphics and the VIA processors. We’ll probably see more about Nvidia’s ION 2 at CES 2010.

Intel fast tracking new Pine Trail processors to replace Atom N270 and N280

admin — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:38:07 +0000

Intel is giving Pine Trail the fast track.

Sick and tired of seeing N270 and N280 over and over again in the specs for the latest netbook? Well, you’re not alone. At long last, we’re hearing that Intel will supposedly officially announce the Pine Trail platform in late December this year, which lines up nicely with the new netbooks scheduled to debut at CES in January. Three new processors are expected. For netbooks, there will be the 1.66GHz Atom N450. For nettops, a dual-core 1.66GHz Atom D510 and a single core Atom D410, also at 1.66ghz. The nettop procs will get 1mb of L2 cache, while het N450 netbook processor has to make do with 512KB of L2 cache.

A second, more powerful netboook processor, the 1.83GHz N470, is expected later in 2010.

Intel allows 2gb of RAM for the 1.86ghz Intel Atom N470 processor.

admin — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:42:24 +0000

Intel Atom Processor

Have you ever wondered why netbooks have such a homogeneous makeup – 1.6ghz processor, 160gb, 1gb ram. Sound familiar? Well, there’s a reason for that. In order for Intel to sell you their Atom processors, you have to agree to their terms for the hardware. Today, Fudzilla reports that Intel has revised the specification slightly.

The upcoming next-gen Atom N450 (1.66GHz) is limited to be sold with a maximum of 1GB RAM, but now Intel has allows the faster Atom N470 (1.86GHz), coming in March, to be sold with up to 2gb of RAM. Of course, to many of us this isn’t a big deal, since many netbooks are able to be upgraded to 2gb of RAM after purchase anyway.

Source: Fudzilla via Netbooked

New Intel Pinetrail processor, coming to a netbook near you in Jan 2010

admin — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:53:41 +0000

Intel Pineview

Fudzilla is reporting that we’ll see Intel’s new Atom N450 Pineview processor on January 3rd. Clocking in at 1.66ghz, the N450′s main benefits are not speed, but rather smaller size and less power consumption. From the rumour mill, we Fudzilla is also reporting that the chip will use a Intel GM3150 graphics core, rather than the GMA500 that was previously reported.

There’s been alot of speculation, and false rumour about this new Intel Atom chip, but the timing on this news makes sense since this date coincides pretty neatly with CES 2010.

Read more about Pineview and the Intel N450 here.

Via Fudzilla and Liliputing

Faster Intel Atom processor coming early next year – Intel Atom N470 1.83ghz

admin — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:50:20 +0000

New Intel Atom Netbook Processors coming in early 2010

According to Fudzilla and Blogeee, Intel will launch a new Intel Atom N470 chip during the first quarter of 2010. The new Atom processor gets a speed bump to 1.83ghz – an improvement over the current N280 which runs at 1.66ghz. Like the N280 processor, the new N470 procesor will run a 667MHz FSB. Intel will also release a slower 1.66ghz N450 processor at the same time.

Perhaps the biggest difference of these new N450 and N470 Atom chips is that they have a graphics controller built into the chip, negating the need for an entirely separate graphics controll like on the current N270 and N280 Atom chips. In real terms, this means significant space saving on the board, as well as power savings. The processor and graphics solution on the N450 and N470 chips is said to have a TDP of just 6.5watts.