Intel Canoe Lake platform hands-on, netbook fans look on in anticipation

Are you a huge fan of netbooks? If you’re itching for an upgrade for this particular platform, that might we suggest checking out this video hands-on of the Intel Canoe Lake platform-powered netbook that is slimmer than your regular netbooks – we’re talking about being a mere 14mm slim, and that it is also able to handle 720p video as well. Just to get an idea of what a netbook powered by Canoe Lake will offer, inside you will find an Intel Atom N550 processor, 2GB RAM, a 120GB hard drive (hmmm, this seems to be a regression, although it could very well be part of the plan in keeping costs down) and Windows 7 Ultimate as the operating system of choice. An Intel GMA 3150 graphics chipset is widely expected to be embedded within, and it is also confirmed that there won’t be any Solid State Disk inside. With netbooks getting slimmer, this seems to be the next step in netbook evolution instead of just swapping out its processor for a faster one – what do you predict would be the next step in the netbook’s future?