Intel's Cedar Trail-M to be Released in December
Intel's Cedar Trail-M processors, the N2600 and N2800, are slated for a December release but sadly will not be available in products by Christmas.
Originally scheduled for a September release, Digitimes reports that the chips, aimed at netbooks, were delayed due to weak demand and will now be rolled in December. Other reports claim that Intel was forced to push out the release by three months due to problems with Cedar Trail-M's graphics driver.
Digitimes's sources said that despite the rapid decline in demand, there is still a substantial netbook market to pursue. However, those sales may only be achievable in emerging markets. Asus and Acer will be the only two Cedar Trail-M customers, the publication stated.
The N2600 will have a core frequency of 1.6 to 1.86 GHz and a TDP of less than 3.5 watts. The N2800 will feature clocks speeds of 1.86 to 2.13 GHz and a TDP of less than 6.5 watts. The N2600 will reportedly consume less than 1.1 watts of power on average.

I agree. There is not much difference between my 3 year old netbook and a netbook I could buy today. The big difference is that they have 10" screens now (I have 8") and some models have HDMI out. Unless it has an AMD APU and can have more than 2 gigs of RAM there is not much reason I would buy a new one.
You forget Atoms main design goal, low power consumption.
Cedar Trail is 32nm, current is 45nm, has a integrated GPU that will fully support Blu-Ray 2.0 and full 1080P. It will also sport DP, enable much lower TDPs that can allow a fanless design and as well longer battery life.
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Since when is a MHz figure the definitive performance indicator? In your perspective a Pentium IV 3.8 GHZ should be just a little slower than the top of the line i7-3960X. There's a lot more to a CPU performance than a simple MHz figure. Also N280 is a single core CPU while the N2600 is a dual core CPU.
Too slow.
The real issue is whether or not Cedar Trail tablets and netbooks can beat the price and battery life of ARM tablets. I can't imagine full-fledged laptops with Atoms yet, and in the meantime AMD is going to entrench itself in that market.
did THG do any review on atom cpu? i dont have any impression.
as an end user, i only care the value the new netbook can bring me, whether the new netbook meet my new need. i looked at wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_atom
The Pineview platform has proven to be only slightly faster than the previous Diamondville platform. This is because the Pineview platform uses the same Bonnell execution core as Diamondville and is connected to the memory controller via the FSB, hence memory latency and performance in CPU-intensive applications are minimally improved
and i trusted it, i would not spend money to test myself. how intel market their "new" product is their issue, as a user i only care what change this new cpu can bring. my current netbook cant last long after unplugged from power outlet. all mobile devices face this same problem: notebook, netbook, tablet, phones.. i don't think this new atom can have big achievement.
on the wiki page it said , performance of a single core Atom is about half that of a Pentium M of the same clock rate if there is greater increase in mhz figure, i expect it has greater advancement, it's normal for most users
It is indicative when it's the same architecture. Otherwise there'd be, y'kow, no point to overclocking? A chief problem of the Atom is that, clock-for-clock, it more closely matches the Pentium 4 than modern Athlon/Phenoms, let alone antything of Intel's with the word "Core" as part of the brand name.