Intel Atom

CES 2010: performance and mobility with ASUS Eee PC 1001P, now available on Amazon from $300

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January 5th, 2010

Now with the very soon debut of CES 2010, manufacturers  are making special offers, and right 1 day  before the doors of the most waited event from San Francisco are opening, Asus launches in US its latest 10.1 inch netbook powered by Intel Pine trail: ASUS Eee PC 1001P. The device is available for $300 [...]

Intel Atom N450 and Broadcom Crystal HD: the ideal hardware platform for HD playback

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December 22nd, 2009

Broadcom is a popular name among OEMs, providing different hardware components for IT industry. Now Broadcom’s Crystal HD was revealed as an option to be implemented with Intel Atom CPU platform, to provide near flawless HD video to the user. The chipset might be watched as a rival for NVidia Ion platform and the battle [...]

Next generation of Intel Atom processors was officially announced

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December 22nd, 2009

Intel officially announced the release of the next generation of Atom processors, with the appearance of several versions of Intel Atom, used for different categories of devices like: MIDs, netbooks, nettops, tablet PCs and entry-level computers. The new platform will bring low power consumption; will come with integrated GPUs and chipset into the processor, all [...]

Atom`s Cedarview processor it`s expected in 2011

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November 20th, 2009

If you want an upgrade for your desktop, then I`m sure that Atom`s latest processor is what you are looking for. Even if you will have to wait until 2011 this is definitely not a waste of time.
As you know Atom has already announced the launching date for Pineview, which is (for those who don`t [...]

Mac OS X 10.6.2 Atom Support Fix Coming Soon, Probably Makes Apple Cry

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November 12th, 2009

Many of you were very sad to hear that Apple killed Intel Atom support with the Mac OS X 10.6.2 software update, however, Meklort has posted on a forum that he is going to fix the kernel in a few weeks. Although we’ve seen that a build of Snow Leopard 10.6.2 provided support for Atom [...]

Confirmed: Apple Kills Atom Support With Mac OS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard Update

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November 10th, 2009

Last night Apple released the Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.2 software update which was packed with bug fixes, new features, speed enhancements, and more. There is only one problem that was rumored for quite a few weeks: Mac OS X 10.6.2 kills Atom processors support. That’s right! Although a few days ago we’ve seen a [...]

Apple Might Not Kill Atom Support With Mac OS X 10.6.2 Update After All

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November 5th, 2009

Earlier this week we saw information which said that Apple is going to kill Intel Atom processors support with the upcoming. Mac OS X 10.6.2 update. However, recent details clearly show that Snow Leopard 10.6.2 is going to work well with Atom processors meaning that your hackintosh netbook is safe and you can install the [...]

Apple’s Mac OS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard To Kill Intel Atom Processors Support

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November 2nd, 2009

Have you ever heard of the Hackintosh Netbook community? I know you do because netbooks run better (at least this is what I’ve heard from some users) on Mac OS X than on Windows XP. Apparently, Apple will not support Intel Atom processors anymore beginning with Mac OS X 10.6.2. The latest Mac OS X [...]

HP Mini 311 is the first netbook powered by Nvidia Ion

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September 24th, 2009

The Lenovo IdeaPad S12 should have been the first Nvidia Ion powered netbook, but due to the Windows 7 delay, it hasn’t been released yet. And now HP moved faster and they’ve already released the Mini 311, becoming the first netbook powered by Nvidia Ion.
The HP Mini 311 is priced at $399 and it only [...]

Intel Atom CE4100 Is “A Monster”

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September 24th, 2009

The Intel CE3100 media chip has been the main attraction of several demonstrations at IDF. The newly presented Atom CE4100 borrows several characteristics from the CE3100 but replaces the Pentium M core with an Atom core (hence the name).
The Atom CE4100 is able to decode two video 1080p streams along with the high-quality audio [...]