We're on the Pine Trail - the as yet unreleased, next-gen low-power platform from Intel.Engadget reports that a German website CarTFT has got hold of a couple of Intel's latest processor / motherboard combos - intended primarily for nettops, it says - and published some early benchmarks. See - Intel's Atom D510, D410 processors get benchmarked
As you may have expected, however, the boards don't exactly represent a huge leap over current systems in terms of performance - especially when compared to an Atom 330 processor paired with an Ion chipset. Indeed, the Atom 330 / Ion pairing actually beat out both the Atom D510 and D410 in a number of real-world Windows 7 performance tests, although the new Atoms did of course come out top when it came to raw processor performance.Read the full article >>
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