Posts Tagged ‘atom’

8.9″ MSI Wind U90

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

Here to accompany the 10″ MSI Wind U100 is the U90 with an 8.9″ inch screen.  Specifications on this particular netbook (or sub-notebook, depending on how you see things…) are as follows:

  • Intel® AtomTM N270 Processor
  • 512MB/1GB RAM (DDR II 667MHz)
  • 8.9″ Wide Screen Display
  • 80 GB SATA HDD
  • 1.3M / 0.3M Webcam
  • 2 Stereo Speakers and Microphone
    802.11b / g WLAN with Bluetooth
  • 4-in-1 Card Reader, SD/MMC/MS/MSpro
  • 10/100 LAN
  • 3xUSB 2.0

Unfortunately no word on whether this will be available with Linux as well, the MSI site on mentions Windows XP (which is a damn stupid OS to run on such low-spec machines).

MSI [via Engadget]

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Summary Post (and sorry for the silence)

Friday, July 11th, 2008

Sorry for the renewed silence on this blog, it’s been a combination of being busy at work and me being lazy…  Here’s a small post of some of the stories I’ve missed.

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Ubuntu MID Edition 8.04 public release

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

The first public release of Ubuntu Mobile Internet Device (MID) Edition 8.04 is now available for download.  Ubuntu MID Edition 8.04 is based on Ubuntu Desktop Edition 8.04 and is being built by the Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded community (sponsored by Canonical) in cooperation with Intel’s Moblin.org community.

The new release is designed to take advantage of Intel’s Atom CPU and has applications which have been modified in order to make them touch screen friendly.

Canonical [via Computer World]

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Intel Atom powered mini-itx board

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Atom mini-itx board

A UK firm (Tranquil PC) is offering a mini-ITX motherboard based on the new Intel Atom processor.  The D945GCLF motherboard comes equipped with a low-power 1.6GHz Intel Atom CPU (512K L2 cache) and an Intel 945GC + ICH7 chipset.

Features include:

  • Intel high definition audio (Line Out, Line In, Microphone)
  • 10/100 LAN
  • PCI
  • SATA2 (3GB/s, 2 ports)
  • IDE (1 port)
  • DDR2 533/667 (max 2GB)
  • 2 USB ports

All this with just a 17 x 17 cm footprint, and all for just about 67 euros or £59,90 (ex. VAT).  No mention is made about overall power consumption, but it should be quite low.

Stick one of these in a shoebox, and you’ll have a small Linux machine running in no time!

[Tranquil PC via Slashdot]

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