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Android Oak Trail tablet benchmarks underwhelm: Intel still has work to do

, Jun 3rd 2011 Discuss [4]

Intel came out fighting at Computex this week, with ambitious Atom plans to take on ARM in its low-power, long-battery Android stronghold. According to the latest, very early benchmarks, however, the chip company may still have some work to do. Tweakers managed to run some tests on a Compal prototype running Android Honeycomb on Intel's 1.5GHz Oak Trail dual-core, finding it to be underwhelming in comparison to existing Tegra 2 based slates. Read The Full Story

ASUS Lamborghini Eee PC VX6S Features AMD Graphics, 3D Display Possible?

, Jun 2nd 2011 Discuss [0]

With all the look-alike notebooks these days, for those who need something that stands out to flaunt their taste for luxury, ASUS has their Lamborghini edition mini notebooks. We've seen the ASUS Lamborghini Eee PC VX6 before with its glossy shell, but at Computex 2011, ASUS is showing off a successor called the VX6S with some upgraded specs. Read The Full Story

Acer Iconia M500 tablet runs MeeGo on Atom

, Jun 1st 2011 Discuss [0]

Acer has revealed a new MeeGo tablet, the Acer Iconia M500, at Intel's Computex 2011 keynote, similar in appearance to the Android-based Iconia Tab A500. The new slate has a 10-inch display running at 1280 x 800, and runs on an unspecified processor which we're guessing will be Intel's Atom Z670. Read The Full Story

Intel Atom accelerates: Cedar Trail for netbooks, Medfield for sub-9mm gaming tablets

, May 31st 2011 Discuss [1]

It's not just Ultrabooks that Intel is pushing at Computex this year: the chip company also has Atom news to share. That concerns Cedar Trail and a Moore's Law outpacing shift to a yearly die-shrink schedule: Intel reckons Atom chips will shift through the 32nm of Cedar Trail, past 22nm, and hit 12nm within three successive years. Technically impressive, but for the consumer it should mean significant gains in power and battery life. Meanwhile, there's also Medfield news for tablets and smartphones. Read The Full Story

Gigabyte S1080 tablet packs Windows 7 and USB 3.0

, May 30th 2011 Discuss [2]

Gigabyte has outed its latest tablet, the S1080, running Windows 7 on a 1.66GHz Intel Atom N550 dual-core processor. Fresh to Computex 2011 this morning, the S1080 has a 10.1-inch 1024 x 600 multitouch display, 2GB of memory and weighs 0.9kg, taking on the ViewPad 10Pro in the process. Read The Full Story

ASUS Eee PC X101 official: MeeGo ultraportable [Video]

, May 30th 2011 Discuss [6]

ASUS' press launch today isn't just about the new PadFone: there's also the company's skinny new Eee PC X101 too. Running MeeGo or Windows 7 in a dual-boot environment, the X101 has a super-slim chassis and uses Intel's 1.5GHz Oak Trail Atom processor with GMA 600 graphics. Read The Full Story

ViewSonic ViewPad 7x and ViewPad 10Pro official

, May 30th 2011 Discuss [6]

ViewSonic has officially launched the ViewPad 7x, the company’s 7-inch Android Honeycomb tablet leaked earlier this month, along with bringing its new dual-booting 10-inch slate, the ViewPad 10Pro. The ViewPad 7x packs NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 processor along with HSPA+, HDMI and a 1024 x 600 display, while the ViewPad 10Pro gets a 1.5GHz Intel Oak Trail Z670 processor running either Windows 7 Pro or Android 2.2.

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Samsung Sliding PC 7 TX100 tablet up for $649 pre-order

, May 2nd 2011 Discuss [3]

Samsung's Sliding PC 7 tablet, announced back at CES 2011 in January, has gone up for pre-order at Amazon, priced at at $649.  The Windows 7 based TX100 - listed as the "Series 7 XE700Z0A-A01US Tablet PC" - has a 10.1-inch 1366 x 768 capacitive touchscreen and, in this particular SKU, a 1.5GHz Intel Atom Z670 Oak Trail processor paired with 2GB of DDR2 memory and a 32GB SSD. Read The Full Story

Samsung “Alex” Chrome OS netbook revealed

, Apr 29th 2011 Discuss [4]

The Chrome OS leaks keep coming, with the Acer ZGB netbook and Seaboard tablet being followed by details of Samsung's offering with Google's new platform. The Samsung "Alex" is a 1280 x 800 netbook powered by Intel's dual-core Atom N550 1.5GHz processor, along with a SanDisk SSD P4 and Qualcomm Gobi 2000 3G WWAN connectivity. Read The Full Story

Shuttle X50V2 Plus touchscreen barebones gets Atom update

, Apr 22nd 2011 Discuss [0]

Shuttle's X50V2 barebones all-in-one PC has had another refresh, with a new Atom processor to replace the previous model's D510. The updated Shuttle X50V2 Plus now packs Intel's 1.8GHz dual-core Atom D525, paired with GMA 3150 graphics and support for up to 4GB of DDR3 memory. Up front there's still the same 15.6-inch touchscreen running at 1366 x 768. Read The Full Story

Intel CEO confirms Honeycomb-on-x86 port; Medfield phones in next 12 months

, Apr 20th 2011 Discuss [2]

Intel has confirmed that it has received the Android 3.0 Honeycomb code from Google, and that it is “actively” working on porting the tablet-centric platform to run on x86 chips like its Atom processors. Revealed during Intel’s glowing Q1 financial results call, president and CEO Paul Otellini said that the company was working with “first-tier notebook vendors” on Android tablets using Intel processors. Leaks back in March suggested Intel was readying as many as eight Android-on-x86 devices for demonstration at IDF Beijing this month.

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Intel tips Atom Z670 ASUS Eee Pad Slider version

, Apr 18th 2011 Discuss [2]

Of ASUS' recent tablet announcements, it's the Eee Pad Transformer that has caught most attention here at SlashGear; still, there's the Eee Pad Slider waiting in the wings as well. According to an Intel spec sheet - since pulled - spotted by Liliputing, however, the Slider may be coming in two forms: the Tegra 2 version we've already seen, and a model using Intel's Atom Oak Trail CPUs. Read The Full Story
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