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Intel is reportedly cooking up a mobile processor designed for a new category of mobile platforms that is quite similar to what AMD announced just last week. From the Consumer Electronics Show, Cnet reports that Chipzilla will release a new Core-architecture processor for laptops that fits somewhere between low-end netbooks …

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  1. Christopher Ahrens

    Everythings good except...

    I've been seriously considering buying a netbook, but the are just so expensive for the Features you get, I know they're meant for web / e-mail, but I've had a PDA that can do that for year, and at half the cost when it was new, hopefully Intel and AMD can work to make a CHEAP netbook, that's where the money really is. Although what I'd really like to see would be a bigger-than-a-smart-phone-smaller-than-a-laptop tablet, something about 7-8" that can run XP / Windows 7 respectably, which might be doable with current chips.

  2. Anonymous Coward
    IT Angle

    Next wee thing?

    I can't see much future in most of the present stock of netbooks purely because of the poor image quality.

    Consider:

    + most people have access to or seen a hi-res computer screen (in form of mobile phone)

    + mobile phones and tv's and 'pooters and laptops and ... seem to be ploughing into higher-res devices as ongoing product development

    - so why consider a device with poor screen resolution?

    Maybe a niche market that will remain niche unless it evolves quickly?

    If the intel or AMD or both are in the process of upping resolution well that seems good?

  3. Adam

    @Christopher

    That would be the OQO then.

    http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/01/08/ces_oqo_goes_atom/

    Probably a bit more than you want to pay but I want the moon on a stick for £12.99.

  4. Anonymous Coward
    Happy

    @Adam...

    "but I want the moon on a stick for £12.99".....

    Tried eBay...sure someone in Nigeria has one kicking around....

  5. al
    Joke

    Ultrathin ?

    hmm... where have I heard this word before ?

  6. Britt Johnston

    Portable niche morphology - anyone for cheap & nasty throwaways?

    The main criteria affecting portable price used to be size and performance, but both are good enough now. The main purpose of these cheap CPUs is to justify a higher price for standard multi-core ones.

    Size doesn't really affect cost, as all screens from postcard to office folder have similar pricing. So vanity portables are going the way of gold-plated iPods and Swarovski-studded accordions. Your idea of stamp-sized "notebooks 'that are less than one inch' " is unlikely to catch on - plug in a touch-screen mp4 player, a keyboard, a fuel cell and a DVD-drive perhaps?

    The performance is related to CPU speed, but now all CPUs are fast enough to manage portable office use, unless they are stuffed with a multi-megabyte OS. Perhaps we should be paying a premium for a sleek OS running in a small cache.

    The medium-priced, medium performance call reeks of compromise and deserves to succeed.

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