Pine Trail

More details on the ASUS Eee PC 1215N are seeping out, ahead of the netbook's expected debut on May 13th, and it's shaping up to be a pretty impressive ultraportable.  According to AllAboutEeePC the 1215N will indeed have the new dual-core 1.5GHz Pine Trail Atom N500 processor expected to hit production in July, together with NVIDIA's Ion GPU.  However, unlike the Eee PC 1215PN, the 1215N will support NVIDIA Optimus for automatic graphics switching.

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Of the new netbook models ASUS unveiled at CeBIT last month, the most interesting has to be the Eee PC 1018P.  Toting not only Intel's latest Pine Trail Atom N455 and N475 processors, the netbook has Bluetooth 3.0 and USB 3.0 connectivity along with the promise of 10hrs runtime.  TechInStyle.tv have got their hands on the 1018P, and the brushed aluminum chassis certainly doesn't let down the high-spec guts.

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ASUS haven't been slow to update their netbook range with Intel's latest Atom N450 processor, and a further 10.1-inch Eee PC has shown up in Europe.  The ASUS Eee PC 1001PX has similar styling to other ASUS netbooks of late, but gets Intel's N450 1.66GHz CPU, 1GB of memory and a carbon-fiber finish.

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A new Lenovo netbook has apparently been spotted in Australian schools, seemingly based on the company's ThinkPad X100e but with a smaller display.  The Lenovo ThinkPad Mini 10 - as it's said to be labeled - has the same chassis and keyboard of the X100e, but fits in a 10-inch display rather than its sibling's 11.6-inch panel.

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Sony's upcoming netbook refresh, the Sony VAIO M, has broken cover, and we have to say it looks a little less interesting than the company's previous netbooks.  Suspected to replace the VAIO W range, the VAIO M packs Intel's new Atom N450 1.66GHz processor along with 1GB of DDR2 memory, a 250GB 5,400rpm HDD and Intel GMA 3150 graphics.

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Out of all of the leaked ASUS netbooks we saw last week, the most interesting was the Eee PC 1018P.  That's now been officially announced at CeBIT 2010, and the Eee PC 1018P Prime looks even better in photos than it does in renders.  Clad in brushed aluminum, bearing USB 3.0 ports and promising 10hrs of battery life, the 1018P Prime also gets Intel N455 and N475 processors.

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Remember Gigabyte's new multitouch convertible netbook, the T1000, spotted on the company's site over the weekend?  Gigabyte have been showing it off properly at CeBIT 2010 this week, and several people have stopped by for a quick hands-on.

Video demo after the cut

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While we grabbed some hands-on time with Acer's Aspire One 532g netbook at MWC 2010 last week, what we didn't think to do was to sneakily attempt to benchmark it.  Being the first netbook to pack NVIDIA's second-gen Ion 2 GPU, the AO532g has many would-be buyers curious as to how it matches up to the first-gen Ion chipset; unfortunately, going by NetbookNews' testing,

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Samsung's ruggedized NB30 netbook looks close to launch, with two UK retailers listing the 10.1-inch Pine Trail based machine as in stock.  Announced back in early January, just after Intel made their Pine Trail Atom chips official, the NB30 has a 1.66GHz N450 processor, 1GB of RAM and a 160GB hard-drive.

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ASUS have quietly added a new Eee Top all-in-one touchscreen nettop, complete with Intel's new Pine Trail CPUs.  The ASUS Eee Top ET1610PT - and its non-touchscreen ET1610P sibling - both use Intel's Atom D410 processor, paired with up to 2GB of RAM and a 160GB hard-drive.

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You'll have to forgive our disappointment, but when we first caught sight of the LG X20 in its FCC photos we hoped it was a smartbook.  The form-factor certainly looks a lot like previous smartbook prototypes we've seen, but sadly this is another regular netbook, albeit an Intel Atom N450 Pine Trail model.

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Acer has a new rival in the highly-affordable netbook market in the form of the $309.99 MSI Wind U135 netbook, powered by Intel’s Pine Trail platform.  Seen originally in December,  this little thing speeds up the netbook race for cheap and fast by another welcomed step.

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