Pierre Cardin Tablet spotted

Pierre Cardin tablet was spotted showing-off two tablets at CeBIT 2010. One comes outfitted with a 7-inch display (PC729) and another comes with an 8.9-inch display (PC819). Both are powered by VIA C7-M that made its debut in HP Mininote 2133 netbook. This processor is well-known for running hot and has poor battery life. Pierre Cardin is asking $450 ($300 without Windows 7) for it.

Excuse our bluntness, but this UMPC sucks even at $300. If they really wanted to use a VIA, the Nano would have been a much intelligent choice.

Samsung NC20 VIA powered netbook now available

If you still consider a 12-inch notebook-size netbook portable, then you will find this one interesting. Samsung NC20, powered by VIA Nano processor is now available at newegg at $549.

It comes with Windows XP home edition, 1GB RAM and 160 GB HDD. The VIA Nano processor is clocked to run at 1.3GHz. It runs at notebook-ish resolution (1280 x 800) and comes with a 6-cell li-ion battery.

[newegg link for SAMSUNG NC20]

Battle of Netbook processors: VIA Nano vs Intel Atom [Netbooks]

Kai Schmerer at ZDnet has done a thorough comparison of two of the most used processors in netbooks: VIA Nano and Intel Atom. Here are some of the highlights: Intel manufactures the Atom using a 45-nanometre (nm) feature size, while VIA still uses 65nm technology. For this reason, the VIA Nano uses more power than [...]