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Pine Trail netbooks / nettops

Netbooks -- those shrunken, underpowered laptops -- along with nettops, have become one of the fastest growing computing categories, and Intel's been right in the thick of it. Its original Diamondville Atom processor powered virtually every netbook on the market, and its newest Pine Trail platform hopes to do the same for the second generation of netbooks and nettops. Though Pine Trail doesn't offer significantly better performance than the previous version of Atom, the chipset has been shrunken and the new Atom N450, D410, and D510 processors use about 20 percent less power than its predecessor.
The ASUS Eee PC ET2010PNT's got a pretty nice looking 20-inch HD multitouch display, but it's also powered by the new Intel Pine Trail D510 processor and NVIDIA GeForce G310 graphics -- which according to the document is being dubbed as Ion 2.
Tim Stevens
It's been awhile since Lenovo last updated its IdeaPad line, the S10-2 dropping over the summer, but we're hearing that the third iteration of the platform is set to be unveiled in the very near future. The model we spied at the FCC last month is confirmed to be the S10-3, possessing Atom N450 (Pine Trail) internals
Nilay Patel
Get ready for the next generation of netbooks and nettops: Intel's just officially announced the Pine Trail Atom N450, D410, and D510, along with the NM10 Express chipset, and we should see over 80 machines with the 45-nanometer chips at CES 2010. Nothing too surprising about the 1.66GHz chips themselves,...
Vlad Savov
"The Atom is dead, long live the Atom." The long awaited upgrade of Intel's netbook platform is gathering pace, and latest to join the ranks is Samsung with its 3G and GPS-equipped N150. Powered by Qualcomm's Gobi 2000 chip, the connectivity on this lite laptop will not go lacking, though Sammy disappoints...
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