Intel News
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.
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).
TG Daily/Tom’s Hardware is reporting that a bug with a Microsoft driver and Intel’s new Core Duo platform causes a severe battery drain under certain circumstances involving USB 2.0.
Good article at HardwareZone.com – Intel Centrino Duo ‘Napa’ Mobile Technology Explained, with five pages covering the introduction, the chipset and wireless platform, CPU differences, as well as what we are gaining with this new platform.
They’ve also included some snapshots of Core Duo machines, including the ASUS W5F.
CNET Asia has updated their Notebook Buying Guide to reflect changes concerning the recent release of the Intel Core Duo, as well as Apple’s move to Intel.