Month: February 2006

Intel’s Ultra Mobile PC – Q1 Release?

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TG Daily mentions that Intel’s “Ultra Mobile PC” is on track for a first quarter release.

This is going to be interesting – WWAN, GPS capabilities, standby times of up to a week, all in a device not much bigger than a paperback book – this is somewhere between a PDA and a very small notebook (the OQO as mentioned, and the Toshiba U100 series are good examples of this size) and may have a physical keyboard.

Announced: Sony VAIO SZ160P/C

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Krunker has news of the new Sony VAIO SZ160P/C – it’s now available for pre-order (@ $2500USD). The SZ160P/C has a 13.3-inch widescreen display, is powered by one of the new Intel Core Duo CPUs (1.83GHz), is less than an inch thick, and weighs only 3.7 pounds (thanks to a carbon fiber case). For storage, it has a 100GB Seria ATA drive and a DVD burner. One of the really unique features of the SZ160P/C is its “Hybrid Graphics System” that allows you to switch between the integrated video chipset, and an NVIDIA GeForce Go 7400 GPU, which allows you to have more control over battery life.

Intel’s Centrino Duo: Buy or Wait?

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Over at Business Week, Stephen H. Wildstrom deals with an interesting question: Buy or Wait?

Wildstrom thinks that you can’t judge how will Microsoft’s Vista will run on current Intel 945 Mobile Graphics systems right now, because it’s in beta, and because it’s constantly being tweaked, although he points out that Intel says it will run. He also mentions that the Core Duos will be priced aggressively against current platforms, which is good news if you do decide to go ahead and wait for a Core Duo system (several have already been announced).