Complying with their agreement with Intel, the big netbook vendors MSI, Acer, Asustek Computer, and Lenovo all held off releasing their new Atom-based N450 netbooks.  But, as of January 11, 2010, these netbooks will be available for sale to the public.

There will be three versions of Atom N450-based netbooks available, each using different operating systems: Windows 7 Starter, Moblin Linux…… [read more]

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Well it was only a matter of time until someone found an overclocking utility to speed up our trusty 1.6GHz atom processors. This time it was a couple of forum members over at MyHPMini who discovered that the OC Tuner could be hacked to allow it to operate with the Atom processor.

The end result? An HP Mini 311 running at…… [read more]

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