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World's Thinnest Notebook from Intel
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Actually, I don't think that the motherboard per se is that expensive - otherwise you'd see much more interchangeability among motherboards.
The chipsets (e.g. the "965") are very, very expensive to design - but designing a board to use them isn't that big a deal.
Just look at a company like Asus (http://usa.asus.com/products1.aspx?l1=3)- it has lots of different mobos for different chipsets/northbridges/southbridges and whatever. If mobo design/manufacture were that expensive, they'd be out of business.
How could there be so many different PC mobo suppliers if it were some magical, esoteric, expensive art to make a mobo. The silicon is expensive to build, but the mobos are cheap.
the goldish color/trim looks incredibly tacky, but i like the overall design.
is it just me, or does this look startling similar to the MBP, almost a "revised" MBP? keyboard, features, trackpad, etc... when opened, it looks just like a MacBook Pro, but in black with a fancier screen/keyboard.
we'll see what apple delivers, because i'm in the market for a new notebook this summer and I want a revised MBP. improve the exterior casing design (maybe keep "Apple Silver" and get rid of champagne) and i'd be happy.
is it just me, or does this look startling similar to the MBP, almost a "revised" MBP? keyboard, features, trackpad, etc... when opened, it looks just like a MacBook Pro, but in black with a fancier screen/keyboard.
we'll see what apple delivers, because i'm in the market for a new notebook this summer and I want a revised MBP. improve the exterior casing design (maybe keep "Apple Silver" and get rid of champagne) and i'd be happy.
wtf was this tangent?Well, if you were a woman, of the kind of power that Michelle Kwan has in her taunt, tight, little skinny body; my kind of sassy strong woman, but still feminine and girlie soft...err, never mind
eew... I don't like it... It's like a purse... lose the (not intending to be sexist) feminine look, and the strap, stick a little light up apple on it, and mac os x, then I would buy it, cause it does have nice specs, at least the thin and light part. Apple, be inspired, or surprise us with an even more technologically advance notebook that's, oh, half an inch thin and has santa rosa, lots of dedicated vram, lots of disk space and RAM, and all the other things I'm pretty sure that you won't put in the computers in combpnations we'd like... . But that would be sweet if apple did that!
. But that would be sweet if apple did that!
As a businessman, I carry my laptop through airports, meetings, transatlantic and transpacific flights, shuttles, trains, taxis and whatever.
Size, weight and battery life are *much* more important than raw power on tasks that I'd do on my office or home workstations anyway.
They are much faster than spinning HDs, this means pretty much instant start-up
Other advantages include silence, resistance to being shaken about and they are less prone to failure...
This is what Intel's metro notebook looked like when it was demo'ed last month at the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing, China. It's really just a toy, compared to even a $499 Wal-mart notebook.
Nice work ...
Nice work on replacing the screenshot.
Good thing Apple has a set selection of computers because if they listened to their users they'd never actually release any computers what with all the upgrades, adjustments and features they'd be adding and removing.
ok, one more, just 'cause i'm bored:
doesn't look anything like a MBP. note the width of the keyboard, for example.
Nice work on replacing the screenshot.
Good thing Apple has a set selection of computers because if they listened to their users they'd never actually release any computers what with all the upgrades, adjustments and features they'd be adding and removing.
Intel's laptop design really doesn't have anything to do with whether Apple chose the right chip architecture...
This is something I want to see coming soon from Apple! But, hopefully - without these:
I personally think that Apple could use E-Ink outer displays really well, Widget style...
...why is everyone comparing this to the macbook PRO? Surely such a thin laptop would have heat issues if a pretty powerful proccessor was stuck in there?
