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Spice up and Ruggedize your Netbook with a Cheap SSD

Active Media is offering pretty deep discounts on its SaberTooth S4 SATA Minie PCIe SSDs for the Asus Eee PC. These solid state disks are compatible with the Asus Eee PC 900, 900A, 901, 1000, and S101 netbooks. They have write speeds that are much faster than the SSDs that ship with these netbooks, with read speeds up to 130MB/sec and write speeds up to 50MB/sec. [...more]

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Intel Announces 2 new Atom Processors – up to 2ghz now.

It’s been a year since Intel launched the 1.6GHz Intel Atom 230 and N270 processors, and now Intel is unveiling its next generation Atom chips. Being launched is the Z550 which tops out at 2GHz, and the Z515 which normally runs at 800MHz, but which will feature Intel Burst Performance Technology which boosts the speed [...] [...more]