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Netbooks are often said to be underpowered due to the Intel Atom CPUs that are being put in them. Well, that’s about to change. On Monday, Intel announced that their  new dual-core Atom processor will be shipped along with a dozen of new netbooks. These new netbooks will be manufactured by  ASUS, LG, Fujitsu, Toshiba, Lenovo, Samsung and Acer and they are said to have “new levels of support” [...]

Atom processors are used mostly in netbooks and in some new tablets. They are very cheap and consume less power. But is it worth saving a few tens of dollars and going for an Atom processor? Does it even come close to core 2 duo, core i3 processor in terms of processor performance? Intel Atom processors were launched by Intel in 2008. They are considered ideal for netbooks and desktops built on a shoestring [...]

Tablets existed even before the iPad. But it is the iPad which has initiated what seems to be the era of the next generation of computing devices. This is no random prediction, but an obvious one, backed up by the fact that the iPad sold a million units in less than a month. Observing the success of the iPad, a lot of companies expressed their desire to enter the tablet market, including giants such [...]

In official statement, LG has told the world that its GW990 smartphone was just a concept and will not be produced in mass scale. The LG GW990 was regarded as the first device to be powered by Intel and Nokia’s MeeGo operating system(earlier by Intel’s Moblin OS) and even have an intel atom processor with a screen resolution 1024 x 768, all firsts in the world of mobiles. But looks like [...]