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HP Mini 2140 review
Reviews Now that the plastic-clad, Atom-powered, consumer-orientated Mini 1000 has become a hit, HP's business side is taking another crack at the netbook market with the radically updated HP Mini 2140, which costs from £359 (ex.
[February 3, 2009, 14:34]
Dell Inspiron Mini 9 review
Reviews Component-wise, the Mini 9 is similar to other recent Netbooks, such as the Eee PC 901 and the Acer Aspire One (which all use Intel's Atom CPU). Inspiron Mini 9 is based around the Atom N270 processor, and comes with 1GB of RAM and a 16GB SSD.
[September 8, 2008, 10:22]
Fedora 12 Alpha and The Moblin User Experience
Blog MMS (Multi-Boot Mini-Server, Dual Atom nettop): Installed smoothly, works extremely well, and is overall very nice. ASUS N10J (Atom netbook): Seemed to take a very long time to boot the LiveCD, I had just about decided that it was hung when it...
[September 2, 2009, 9:30]
Acer Aspire One D150 review
Reviews With the basic Intel Atom/1GB RAM/XP setup, you'll get a similar experience to using a netbook such as the HP Mini 1000 or Lenovo S10, but there are a handful of trade-offs for the Aspire One D150's price.
[February 12, 2009, 11:21]
Ubuntu 9.04 'Jaunty Jackalope' Release Candidate
Blog Comment The performance was unbelievably bad, so they must be doing something that is specifically tuned to Atom-based netbooks, which is killing the VIA/Chrome-based Mini-Note. I've never tried the UNR on an Atom-based netbook, so I don't know what it is...
[April 17, 2009, 22:33]
ecoquiet RM ONE 50: a first look review
Reviews Although the 45nm single-core/dual-thread Atom chip has been widely talked up as a CPU for mini-notebooks and even smaller Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs), it will also, in its Diamondville guise, appear in low-cost desktops such as the £548...
[June 3, 2008, 13:20]
HP Mini 2140 - I Get To Try One!
Blog There are crucial differences in the internals, though, the most significant of which is the Intel Atom 270 CPU, rather than the VIA C7-M, and their associated chips. They say it is because the 2140 BIOS is shipped with Dual Core support enabled...
[July 1, 2009, 15:41]
How netbook broadband bundles stack up
News The device also uses a Celeron M processor, which is older and more power-hungry than the Intel N270 Atom chipsets used in all the other netbooks currently offered by UK operators. The 1.3kg NC10 has a 10.2-inch screen and uses Intel's 1.6GHz N270...
[February 11, 2009, 14:02]
HP "Entertainment PC" Revisited
Blog The 2133 has a VIA C7-M CPU and VIA Chrome 9 graphic controller; the 2140 was a very standard Intel Atom based system, and the new 1010ez has an AMD Athlon Neo CPU and ATI Radeon graphic controller. The AMD Athlon Neo processor is noticeably faster...
[September 29, 2009, 14:27]
ASUS Eee PC 1008HA review
Reviews Using Intel's N280 Atom CPU, the system was minimally faster in our iTunes encoding test than netbooks with the slightly slower N270 version. Performance in other tests was in line with other netbooks, and overall we have yet to meet an Atom...
[June 1, 2009, 16:32]
Sony shows off its Vaio W-Series netbook
News However, the Vaio W's specifications and dimensions are identical to those of most current netbooks: it has a 1.66GHz N280 Intel Atom processor, Windows XP Home, a gigabyte of RAM, a 160GB hard drive and a 10.1-inch screen.
[July 7, 2009, 16:16]
Lenovo joins the netbook crowd
Blog Like most other notebook vendors with established ranges of 'proper' business notebooks to protect, Lenovo pitches these Atom-based systems towards the consumer/second PC end of the market. As well as the Atom CPU, the IdeaPads come with 1GB of RAM...
[August 5, 2008, 9:37]
Toshiba NB200 netbook, er, mini notebook
Blog Atom N280 processor It does mini notebooks. Part of Toshiba’s play is to call its offerings mini notebooks. What really impresses with this netbo- er mini laptop is battery life. Toshiba doesn’t do netbooks.
[August 4, 2009, 14:34]
Linux on netbooks
Talkback I have an HP mini, 8.9" screen, 1.6 atom processor, 1 gig memory, 16 gig SSD, 16 gig thumb drive, and an external powered CD/DVD writer. I installed Mandriva 2009 on the SSD, and it runs almost twice as fast as XP did.
[September 23, 2009, 5:04]
CentOS 5.4 Released
Blog I'm still keeping my dual-Atom CPU Multi-Boot Mini-Server up to date, so I was pleased to see the release of CentOS 5.4 a week or so ago. This is known as the Community Enterprise Operating System, and although it is based on a fresh compilation...
[October 25, 2009, 13:56]
Mandriva Spring 2009 Released
Blog Comment Nice article Jamie, I bought an HP 1115NR mini netbook Friday.screen,atom processor, 1 gig of ram, 16 gig SSD, 2 USB ports, RJ45 port, web cam and pre-loaded with XP. XP took 1.5 minutes to boot so it was gone.
[May 22, 2009, 4:48]
Dell reveals launch details of Mini 10 netbook
News All use variations on Intel's Atom chipset, with the Mini 10 giving a choice between the 1.33GHz Z520 and 1.6GHz Z530 models. Dell launched its 10-inch-screened netbook, the Inspiron Mini 10, on Monday.
[February 23, 2009, 16:12]
Dell Inspiron Mini 12 muscles in on notebook turf
News Like the Inspiron Mini 9, the Mini 12 is powered by Intel's Atom, a CPU choice that helps justify Dell's designation of the machine as a netbook. Dell's hybrid netbook-notebook, the Inspiron Mini 12 — just released in Japan — is set to reach the UK...
[October 27, 2008, 15:42]
Sony VAIO P review
Reviews When it comes to Intel-Atom-powered systems, it's no different: Sony's entry into the very hot mini-notebook category shares a lot with Netbooks such as the Dell Mini 9 or Asus Eee PC, but clearly goes out of its way to avoid being lumped in with...
[January 19, 2009, 12:08]
Via Nano to take on Intel's Atom
News According to a whitepaper released by Via last week, the Nano "will initially power a range of [mini] notebooks", putting it in direct competition with Intel's Atom, released in Shanghai in April. Taiwanese chip manufacturer Via Technologies has...
[June 2, 2008, 8:41]
