Components For Laptop

The quad-core chips that have sat at the top of the microprocessor heap for two years are about to begin to be replaced by their bigger, burlier older brother - the 6-core processor.
Pat Gelsinger, senior vice president and general manager of Intel’s Digital Enterprise Group, Wednesday afternoon announced that the company is set to release [...]

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VIA Nano

Intel AtomIntel’s Atom gets some competition
Intel’s Atom processor has become the darling of netbook manufacturers. The 45nm processor is used in a number of netbook designs ranging from the Eee PC 901/1000h to the MSI Wind.

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Preempting Intel’s official launch of its latest Centrino 2 mobile processors, PC makers and chip resellers are leaking processor details by letting customers preorder the chip through channels and in laptops.
The Centrino 2 platform, codenamed Montevina, is an upgrade to Intel’s current Centrino platform and will include five Core 2 processors running at clock speeds [...]

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Intel could give its Classmate PC a user interface similar to One Laptop Per Child’s XO laptop, with the chip maker preparing a version of the Sugar UI found on OLPC’s laptops for its educational laptop.
Intel has tied up with Sugar Labs Foundation to develop a version of Sugar, the UI (user interface) originally developed [...]

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OEMs scramble to get their hands on Intel’s newest mobile processors.
Intel specifically designed its new Atom processors to be as energy efficient as possible while at the same time being powerful enough to handle everyday tasks requested by consumers. Intel apparently struck a nerve with manufacturers as demand is currently outstripping supply for the inexpensive [...]

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Asustek plans to launch a new version of the Eee PC armed with Intel’s Atom microprocessor at the Computex trade show in Taipei this June, Asustek’s CEO said Monday.
Atom is the name of the processor formerly called Diamondville. It was designed for low-cost laptop PCs, ultramobile PCs, Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) and other small devices [...]

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Shanghai (China) - Connecting your laptop to a Wi-Fi access point is pretty easy, but how do you connect your computer to a myriad of other devices like wireless cameras and printers? To answer that tough question, Intel has been developing its ’Cliffside’ technology which basically turns your computer into a software-based access point.
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Everex is refreshing its Cloudbook line of ultraportable, Linux-based notebooks with redesigned models that may eventually include low-power Intel Diamondville processors, bigger screens and more storage.
Plans to include the Intel processor are “very tentative” and for now the company will continue to use Via Technologies’ low-power processors in Cloudbook laptops, said Paul Kim, director [...]

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Chicago (IL) - Asus’s chief executive officer has revealed juicy details about the upcoming EeePC. Jerry Shen told Laptop Magazine that he prefers Intel’s Diamondville processor over Via’s Isaiah chip. Slowly but surely, the EeePC will get more features, including wireless broadband. And yes, the new EeePCs will be more expensive than the debut model, [...]

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Cupertino (CA) - Apple updated its Macbook and Macbook Pro models with new processors, new graphics chips, more hard disk space and the Macbook Air’s multi-touch trackpad.
The Macbook Pro is now available with Intel’s latest 45 nm Core 2 Duo processors with Penryn core. The entry-level 15″ Macbook Pro is still priced at $1999 ($200 [...]

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