Today AMD announced it will indeed fight with Intel in the netbook space.  They aren’t going after the regular Atom processor but are instead going after the proposed Dual Core Atom processors Intel is rumored to be working on.
The new Yukon platform will be introduced in the first half of 2009.  It will be manufactured using a 65nm process and feature 2 cores, and 1MB of cache.  There is currently no word on the FSB speed.  Expect them to work at the 1.2Ghz to 1.5Ghz range with AMD stating that …

CNet got their hands on the Asus Eee PC S101, the upscale version in the line and had some great things to say about it.  All in all the review was positive, but at $650+ is a steep price to pay for a netbook.  The one area where the S101 shines is with battery life.
This can be chalked up to two things.  One it uses an SSD hard drive.  Since as much as energy isn’t spend retrieving data from the drive it’s able to help keep the battery from draining as …

Electronista reports that you can now snag a 12″ Dell Mini netbook from their US site.  To get all of the weight savings you’ll have to pay at least $550 for it which is pretty disappoints when you can get a 10″ netbook for around $400.  The biggest difference aside from the screen real estate is the operating system.
Instead of getting Windows XP Home which runs well on a slower processor and less memory you get Windows Vista.  If you add an SD card and enable Ready Boost performance shouldn’t …