The primary cause why we have seen such a pack of ‘cookie-cutter’ netbooks is due to hardware restrictions in place from both Intel and Microsoft. Both companies don’t want this ‘value’ segment consuming into profitable margins from their premium offerings. The coming of Windows 7 has seen storage limitations upped by 160GB to 250GB, though most of these...

This is an Atom N470, clocked at 1.83Ghz Intel expected to launch in the first quarter of 2010, probably after its launch at CES in January in Las Vegas. It remains a simple heart but the big difference ATOM processors that we know now it loads directly onto the same chip graphics chipset that we see in our current netbooks on a different chip. In the picture above an...