14 DAY TRIAL // Intel’s recently announced Cedar Trail platform has also made it in HP’s Mini 110 and Mini 210 netbooks which can now be equipped with the Atom N2600 and Atom N2800 dual-core processors with Hyper-Threading support.
The Cedar Trail platform is comprised of the Cedarview processor and the NM10 chipset, which is the same controller logic utilized for the current Pine Trail netbook and nettop platform.
However, unlike these processors, the CPU used by Cedar Trail will be built using the 32nm fabrication process and features a unified architecture that packs both the processing cores, memory controller (apparently connected to the CPU via a FSB bus) and the GPU on the same die.
The latter is actually based on a PowerVR design and features hardware decoding capabilities for a wide number of HD formats including MPEG2, VC1, AVC, H.264 and Blu-ray 2.0.
In the Mini 110 and 210, HP’s customers can choose between the 1.6GHz Atom N2600 and 1.86GHz N2800 processors which can be paired together with either 1GB or 2GB of system memory.
For storage purposes, the netbooks can pack hard drives reaching up to 500GB in capacity while the rest of the specs list includes such features like 802.11 b/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth and 100Mbps LAN connectivity, a VGA webcam, a built-in media card reader and a 6-cell battery.
The keyboard was designed in order to be spill-resistant and both of these netbooks come with a 10.1-inch LED backlit screen, which uses a 1024x600 resolution in the Mini 110 and 1368x768 in the 220.
HP hasn’t so far mentioned when the new Cedar trail equipped netbooks will arrive, but we expect them to be unveiled during the CES fair which will open its gates in a week from now.
As far as pricing is regarded, TechPowerUp says that both of these systems will run between 329 and 350 EUR, which translates into about $428 to $455 US.