All the talk of the demise of the netbook may have been a bit premature, shipments for this year are already looking to touch the thirty million mark. While there is a new a processor too, the Atom N570 is clocked at 1.66 GHz was seen at the CES 2011 in Las Vegas, it will replace the N550 with its 1.5 GHz.
One of the machines expected to use this processor will be Lenovo, their IdeaPad S100 netbook is due out by the end of February, but others are sure to follow, especially the likes of Samsung with the NC110.
However so far it seems that Asus are yet to decide what machine they are going to use first up with this processor, or are they really preparing to slow down the production of netbooks in order to concentrate on the more exciting tablet market! 2011 is going to be an exciting year.
Source [Netbook News]
