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Intel claims fanless potential for new Atom |
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Written by Fuad Abazovic
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Friday, 12 June 2009 10:03 |
Pineview
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New netbooks
should be ready in Q4 2009 to Q1 2010 and Intel now confirms something that we
wrote back in January, the possibility of a fanless netbook. Intel didn’t really
said it will happen it just said that the new platform has “fanless potential”.
Fanless design
would heavily depend on a configuration and scenario of power workload but
there is a chance that some systems might come without a fan, or eventually
that the fan will be there but it won’t spin much unless in extreme situations.
The new
platform is significantly smaller and two chip design definitely helps a lot. The
sad part is that from a performance point of view, new Atoms will be just as
fast or very similar to performance of N270 platform which is not what many
users expected. Intel wants to keep Atom below notebook prices and since
netbooks got really popular, we can foresee the continuance in this fight of
notebooks versus netbooks.
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