ATI Redwood and Cedar to be in market in Q1

ATI to unveil two new chips and three new cards by Q1 2010. The Redwood XT which is a 40nm DX11 chip for mainstream market which is expected to rule over 4770 and 4670, while second one will rule over 4650 in the mainstream market called as Redwood or PRO.

The 4550, 4350 as well as 3450 cards will be seen in the Q1 2010, and will be recognized as sub-Cedar part of the value market. There are chances that Cedar might be branded as Radeon HD 55×0 / 53×0, which totally depends upon performance and nonetheless it is ATI’s marketing decision.

Samsung and Dell working on 11.6-inch netbooks

Looks like the era of 11-inches mini laptops has landed. Perhaps that is the reason that every netbook manufacture is now releasing 11.6-inch netbooks everyday or so. Reports are now coming that Samsung and Dell are now working on an 11.6-incher. Both will have a display resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels.

Unfortunately, do to Microsoft OS policy, the netbook manufactures are not able to use the ‘fast’ Atom N270/N280 processor in the netbooks that are more than 10.2-inches. They are forced to use the slower Atom Z520 processor that runs at a comparatively slower speed of 1.3GHz.

When we reviewed the Acer Aspire 751, we found that although the processor was able to handle the Windows XP OS fairly well, the boot up and shut down times were more than what we would want them to be.