PINE TRAIL NETBOOKS TO OFFICIALLY LAUNCH ON JANUARY 11

According to a report in Digitimes, netbooks running Intel’s Pine Trail Atom N450 processors will officially launch on January 11, 2010. Intel, reportedly, has an agreement with notebook makers not to release products based on Pine Trail chips before January 10.

Many laptop makers including Asus, Acer, Lenovo and MSI who were planning to launch their Pine Trail netbooks in 2009 have postponed the release to a date later than January 10.

The Pine Trail netbooks can run Windows 7, Windows XP or Moblin Linux. While Windows 7 is the most popular among the three options, it is also the costliest. Besides the Atom N450, Intel will launch an upgraded version of its Atom N470 CPU in March 2010.

INTEL MAY LAUNCH ATOM N450 ON JANUARY 3

Intel has been working on its low-power Atom processors based on the Pine Trail platform for a while. Unofficial sources claim that the company may soon launch the first Intel Atom Pine Trail chip - the 1.66GHz Intel Atom N450 - on January 3rd.

The Atom N450 will have memory and graphics functions incorporated into the single chip. The result will be a power efficient processor that consumes less power than the Atom N270/N280 processors available today. The Atom N450 may also use a graphics core called GMA 3150. The GMA 3150 is expected to offer better graphics performance than the GMA 950 graphics used in most netbooks. That said, you will still not be able to play high end games. The strength of GMA 3150 is in power conservation and not in powering demanding graphical applications.

REVOLUTIONARY NEW VAIO LAPTOP COMING JANUARY 9TH

I guess everybody likes gossip whether you're a political guru, tech geek or paparazzi. Apparently Sony knows that which is why they have released a teaser for some new "revolutionary" system that will be coming in a few days. According to Sony "On the 9'th of January you will change the way you look at laptops forever."

TOP TEN NOTEBOOK OF JANUARY 2008

The start of the year was great for notebook lover and as well for the notebook sellers. Beyond doubt Apple MacBook Air was the one created loads of excitement among people this January and so also managed to shoot up to place 2 in no time. However, Dell XPS M1530 was more thrilling and managed to get the top ranking. Below given are the top ten notebooks of January 2008:

1. Dell XPS M1530
2. Apple MacBook Air
3. Lenovo ThinkPad T61
4. Dell XPS M1330
5. Toshiba Satellite A200
6. Sony VAIO SZ
7. Dell Inspiron 1525
8. Dell Vostro 1500
9. Dell Inspiron 1520
10. Apple MacBook