Intel ULV Core Solo Processor Info?

interesting ultra low voltage chips... time to try to get them into the human brain

If the rumored Apple tablet does come, maybe they'll use something like this. My guess is the iBook will see the same processors as the mini or close to it.

The price for the chips actually doesn't sound to bad, especially if Apple bought larger quantities of them.

If the rumored Apple tablet does come, maybe they'll use something like this. My guess is the iBook will see the same processors as the mini or close to it.

I was thinking the same thing

I really hope Apple makes a UMPC or whatever they want to call it. ... of course with "instant on" just like PDAs! I'd buy one right now! (...windows mobile 5 crashes so much on my dell axim)

iBook here we come - so the Mini will be more powerfull a?

Please please please, thin sub-notebook with 12" or 10" widescreen LCD and NO optical drive... perfect companion for administrating my 12 Xserves at work... I even went so far as to install OSX86 on my tiny, 12-hour battery Fujitsu subnotebook. It runs like a speed demon! Unfortunately it can't sleep, nor boot properly the first time without an external monitor attached. Argh!

Based solely on idle chatter with other Mac system admins, there definitely is a market for a product like this - basically a thinner iBook without optical drive and a well-engineered large battery.

For reference, the Fujitsu I have is a new P7120. 10.5" (or so) widescreen LCD, under 1" thick. Plus the greatest thing - the battery slot can accept a high-capacity battery that is the SAME SIZE as the normal battery. They just pack more cells into it. Add to that a battery that replaces the optical drive, and you have genuine, real-life 10-12 hours of runtime.

The problem with it? It runs Windows! Windows itself is a big battery hog, and due to all the hardware out there that it runs on, it is nowhere near as power-optimized as OS X is. Put it this way - if IBM (now Lenovo)(and who are fantastic at squeezing battery life due to clever software additions) teamed up with Fujitsu to create this same P7120 subnotebook, it would have retained it's tiny size but the battery life could have been extended at least another 3 solid hours.

If you ever need proof that there is indeed a market for an Apple genuine subnotebook, check out the osx85project.com forums. One of the most popular laptops to hack to run OS X is the Dell 700m - a tiny laptop indeed compared to most.

And so ends my rant. =)

Arn-

Core "single"???

:rolleyes:

That gateway laptop is pretty frikkin ugly. At first I thought I was directed to the wrong place it looked old...but then I saw how thin it was & I was like ookay just kidding. The hinge is HUGE! The mousepad is un-centered (like all other PC's) and has flashy buttons & stupid stuff like that. And the spacebar...it's like...half the size of the MacBook Pro's...more like 3/4's the size ... WTF.

k done. I jsut don't like that...but it would be cool if Apple made an 'ultra portable' that was $699 with the same processor but came with an external CD drive...

One of these days technology is gonna get ahead of us...
you do know that technology has to stay big enouogh to interface with the human, right? haha.

! (...windows mobile 5 crashes so much on my dell axim)

And you found that out only AFTER you bought the damn thing ??
Don't tell me.. you are running Windows ME @ home to ?

No falme inteded but come on :S

Please please please, thin sub-notebook with 12" or 10" widescreen LCD and NO optical drive... ]

Yeah, seconded!

I've started to think in Omni outliner - but there's no way I can lug around a 4 or 5 pound 12 inch PowerBook everywhere I go.

I want something small, I don't need optical (all my tunes are ripped, and I can rip a DVD if I want to watch it on the move) and I don't care too much about speed. A 2 pound ULV single core with a 10 inch screen would be ideal!