Santa Clara (ip-192.com): To beef up processing power, netbooks from manufacturers including Acer, ASUS, Fujitsu, Lenovo, LG, Samsung, MSI, and Toshiba ship now with a new Dual-core Intel Atom processor. The new chip provides a more responsive experience in the same compact form factor and DDR3 memory support. "In their short history, the netbook category [...]
Intel’s Moblin adds 3G Support
Santa Clara (ip-192.com): Intel has released version 2.1 of its Linux derivate called Moblin. The improved OS focuses on increased functionality for netbooks using the Intel Atom processor. The update comes with a lot of bugs fixed, along with new features and customer requested improvements. Among them are: 3G Support: Currently it supports 3G connections [...]
Will Mac OS X update kill netbooks?
Cupertino (ip-192.com): The upcoming Mac OS X Leopard 10.6.2 will not run on the Intel Atom processor, according to several news reports. The Atom processor is widely used in netbooks, a lately very popular stripped down version of a laptop. If the reports are true, Apple will break many netbooks which have been hacked to [...]
Silverlight will be ported to Moblin
San Francisco (ip-192.com): A demonstration of Moblin 2.1, a Linux based operating system aimed at running Netbooks, showcased features of the next version of the Moblin operating system that eventually may find its way into cell phones and smart phones. "We're flushing out the software side," so CEO Paul Otellini at the Intel Developer Forum [...]



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