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Tuesday, June 08, 2010
Lenovo is back again hitting the FCC with yet another netbook (or could be the same), this time it’s the Lenovo FL5-B3 with a next-gen Pine ViewAtom N450 (1.6GHz) processor, 10.1” 1024x600 display, 250GB (5400rpm) HDD, 802.11n Wi-Fi and 2GB RAM.
It’s sporting a large wide chiclet keyboard with slightly rounded keys on the front edge and the touchpad is button-less. Let’s hope that works out well. Oh and It’s also a fingerprint magnet as the pictures clearly show.
You can probably expect this out in Q1 2010. It might even make an appearance at CES 2010.
Source: Wireless Goodness via SlashGear
Pinetrail platform isn’t even interesting. CPU performance increase is very minor or next to none, integrated memory controller is the only improvement. No HD video playback and certain not even 720P Youtube playback, Flash Player 10.1 won’t help this either since the GMA 3150 IGP doesn’t even support DXVA H.264 decoding on its GPU.
I think anyone looking for a speed improvement on atom should look at the CULV range which is becoming more and more mainstream. I think intel (and other manufactures) has the performance boundries drawn now.
Arm (Tegra) -> Arm (Tegra 2) -better performance same battery life for smartphones and smartbooks
Atom N270 etc -> Atom (pinetrail) - more battery same performance for low end ‘all day’ netbooks
CULV minor updates (already a very wide range) for high end netbooks and ultra portables.
Core 2 (not CULV) for standard notebooks.
The Pineview platform is far superior to the Atom + Intel GMA’s. The clock speed isn’t that much faster but it’s 64 bit and the Broadcom video decoder will give it smooth HD video playback when supported. This will give it far superior graphics capabilities
The Broadcom video decoder will not be supported (intel have stated this in the context of pinetrail). The only way it will work is in a similar fashion to the hacks already done on the present generation atoms.
The pineview platform uses an intergrated GMA 500 chip. I believe that they will be very similar performance wise to the Z530/40 series with tiger point aka GMA 500/ICH7 chipset (found in many netbooks and the sony P and X series) , however they will have major reductions in power requirements meaning much longer battery life. I believe Nvidea are working on getting much better Ion support (read: Ion 2 compatibility) with these new processors so in the overall scheme of things this could work out quite well with longer (remember 9400M is power hungry compared to pineview) battery life and decent graphics. Don’t forget however that these processor are more expensive so you will pay a small premium for the privilege.
http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/15984/1/
“Intel is using a two+ years old, lame graphics core for its new Atom parts. The new Atom chipset is stepping up from ultra weak and old G945GC to a ‘better’ G31 generation one.”
“The graphics inside new Atom D510 and D410 single core is called GMA 3150, which promises to be the slightly faster version of G31 based GMA 3100.”
There’s no hardware accelerated decoding in the GMA 3100, and certainly there’s none in the Pineview GMA 3150. It doesn’t use GMA 500.
The Ion chipset is not power hungry at all. Refer to the slides below. The next-gen Ion2 will be more power efficient of course since it’s probably built on 40nm process.
I think you like Ion, Ion.
Your right about the nettop D series but the low power N series will be using the GMA 500. Sorry I overlooked the nettop processsors.