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Intel announced that “Atom” will be the name for a new family of low-power processors designed specifically for mobile Internet devices and a new class of simple and affordable Internet-centric computers arriving later this year.

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Apple has launched its updated MacBook and MacBook Pro models that feature faster Core 2 Duo processors, more memory, better video cards and higher price tags (Arggh!!!). Other than the upgraded specs, they look the same as the existing MacBook and MacBook Pro models.

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This is really cool. Someone with a lot of money and time to spare, just bought a new MacBook Air and tear it apart disassemble it. You might want to check it out if you are curious on how Apple was able managed to fit the components on such limited space.

Now, if you are one of those people who own it already, you might want to know that you have to remove almost 20 screws just to get the battery out. Yikes!

As you’d expect with a computer so devoted to aesthetics, getting to the “user-installable” parts is going to be a bit more challenging than usual. If you weren’t counting, that’s 19 screws to remove the battery. Replacing the battery is straightforward, but not something you’ll be doing when your battery dies mid-flight.

Link: iFixit

Nvidia, the leading graphic chip maker is planning to launch the next generation nForce 790i chipset in the second quarter this year. The chipset will adopt Nvidia’s C73 northbridge and MCP55 southbridge, and will support Intel processors with FSB up to 1600MHz.

The chipset will feature 3-way SLI and Hybrid SLI technology and will support DDR3 memory. Now, with these features I guess Nvidia and motherboard makers are targeting high-end gamers who are willing to spend for a new chipset, a 3-way SLI and DDR3 memory.

For the meantime I’m going to stick with my current setup. I’m still happy with my Abit IP-35 with Intel’s P35 chipset and from the benchmark I saw, the difference between a system running DDR2 against DD3 is not the big.