Just a short while after they were officially introduced, Intel's Pine Trail platforms were benchmarked and evaluated by testers over at HotHardware and PCMag. The Pine Trail and Pineview were highly anticipated products, especially considering the high rise in popularity of mobile computers over the past year. The test results may, however, turn out to be rather less glorious than expected, as neither the nettop nor the netbook platform can brag about a drastic performance increase compared to existing competing devices. Still, even though they didn't win all performance tests, the platforms did completely overshadow their competition when it came to power efficiency.The nettop platform Intel D510 whitebox was tested by the PCMag team who used an Atom D510 processor, Intel NM510 Express chipset, a 250GB 7,200rpm SATA hard drive, 1GB of DDR2-800 memory, a DVD drive, and a 60W power supply. The end results showed that the “older” Atom 330 ran just as well.
This means that the owners of 330-based nettops don't have any real reason to upgrade their systems, although new purchasers should definitely select the Pine Trail because of its low noise output and significant decrease in power consumption. More specifically, the newly released platform is completely fanless and doesn't use... (read more)
One of the aspects of Microsoft that should come as no surprise is that the company plans ahead not just next year’s product launches, but decades in advance, in terms of the evolution of its technology. Not limited to its own software, this strategy is an integral part of how the company is tackling problems faced by education systems world... (
Firefox 4.0, the next major release of Mozilla’s open source browser, will bring to the table a major overhaul of its graphical user interface, one that would put the UI in line the Windows 7 Ribbon/Fluent style. Mozilla has already made public details on the revamping of the Firefox User interface for version 4.0, and various concepts and sketches ha... (
With Valentine's Day just around the corner, Microsoft is helping Windows 7 customers celebrate love right on their desktops. In this regard, the Redmond company has made available for download a new desktop theme designed to integrate seamlessly into the desktop of their Windows 7-power computers. The Lacy Hearts is, as the software giant has put i... (
The latest development milestone of Office 2010 has made it into the wild, even though Microsoft never intended to have the general public get their hands on the release. Earlier this week, the Redmond company revealed that the next iteration of the Office System reached a key milestone in the evolution to RTM, namely the Rel... (
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