MSI: Pine Trail to Launch in January

[JMcEntegart]

MSI has confirmed previous rumors that said the company was working on a Pine Trail-powered, touch screen netbook running Windows 7.

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[Upendra09]

touchscreen netbook, very good idea, the mouse pad and buttins on those things can be small

 

[Major7up]

Sounds promising but what about cost? I think I'd still prefer an Ion-based system.

 

[zerapio]

Could this be the netbook/carputer I've been waiting for? The Nokia system from a couple days ago has me drooling too.

 

[mafinphoenix]

Well, the pine trail is only 945gse integrated on one chip with atom. And everyone who had opportunity to use machines with this chipset knows how shitty they are. So i should really look somwhere else especialy Ion based and AMD Yukon and Yukon2 based systems...

 

[Guest]

Could be complete BS, ever hear of an NDA? I'd have to agree with mafinphoenix, as of 27August2009, Intel has never had a graphics product that was actually exciting, throwing their crap IGP into the CPU packaging instead of the northbridge is not exciting. AMD IGPs in a Yukon system, on the other hand, might actually make a computer product that doesn't need to have excuses made for it's performance.

 

[amnotanoobie]

There are two positives with PineTrail (HD playback not one of them).
1. The battery life should be a hell of a lot better.
2. Since it is a single chip, the form factor could be smaller.

If you're looking for raw performance, ION is the way to go.