Atom N450 netbook torrent undammed on January 11 next year?
By Vlad Savov 
posted December 4th 2009 4:12AM
posted December 4th 2009 4:12AM
Well, well, here's something to spice up that upcoming post-CES malaise. The second Monday of the first January of the 2010th year of the Gregorian calendar seems set to be the day Atom-powered netbook lovers have been waiting for. DigiTimes today reports that the long (much too long) awaited move to the Pine Trail platform is set to go off with a pretty major bang of vendor support come next month. Acer, ASUS, Lenovo, and MSI are all said to have lined up their N450 wares -- we know that for a fact with Lenovo -- and are now awaiting Lord Intel's predetermined date to start shipping. We're also hearing the even faster N470 chip will start making the rounds in March 2010, meaning that the first quarter of next year will see more netbook innovation than the last year and a half combined.
wait for it...
what are we waiting for? some one to point out it should say 2010?
Dang are dates getting more complex? Picture shows 2010 and writeup says 2011......And there is more then one January in a year now? No wonder why everyone is confused.
@LongKnights When the calendar reads 2010, we're in the 2011th year. That is to say 2010 indicates how many years *have passed*. Ergo, everything in the post is correct, if somewhat unwieldy, but if you just want the date, it is in the calendar pic.
@Vlad Savov
wrong, there is no year 0 in the gregorian calendar
ad 1 is the 1st year after 1 bc
why can't I vote Vlad Savov's comment down?
@Vlad Savov Gee when is the second January then? Is there more then two Januarys in a year?
@LongKnights, Ha ha ha, the author tried to be witty, but got owned.
Was I the only one thinking "How do you torrent a netbook?" for a split-second?
@Riley
You wouldn't download a car.
@michaspi ahaha, I see what you did there
Hallelujah!
I guess that I won't be using an N280 netbook after Christmas now. I'm definitely waiting for these to be released.
Umm, for those of us who aren't as netbook-savvy, is that dual-core?
@Ark Nope. My understanding is that it's the same core as the 270 or 280, it's just a faster chipset.
Goodbye, netbook chipsets with non-Intel graphics, we hardly knew yee...
More reason to nVidia to start pushing ARM netbooks.
Do it Doc, do it.
crap, i just bought an acer with an n270! oh well, its not like you can play any serious games on netbooks anyway.
I could use some links to some info as I'm an Atom processor newbie and can't seem to find much roadmap info. I just set up an X vaio for a client and it was a tad slow at 2GHz (understandable). Are there any faster Atoms in the near roadmap? Any 64 bit atom processors coming?
Thanks in advance
crap, I was all set on getting asus 1201N, how much difference is there between N450 and N330?
Alright, replying to myself now. From the thread over at 1201N pre-order on Amazon, sounds like dual N330 will still be much better than N450 performance-wise, with N450 being more of a process/power improvement over N270.
I'm guessing this won't be on Mininova