“The PC industry is wasting little time getting in line behind Apple to use Intel’s spiffy new notebook chip,” Tom Krazit reports for CNET.
“CNET News.com has learned that Lenovo and Fujitsu are in the process of putting together systems based on the special Core 2 Duo chip that Apple is using in the MacBook Air,” Tom Krazit reports for CNET. “The new laptops should be out shortly, according to sources familiar with the companies’ plans, and will give customers a chance to see what the rest of the PC industry can do with the power-thrifty chips.”
MacDailyNews Take: Yeah, produce uglier, thicker, tiny-screened, teeny-keyboarded, plastic-bodied, OS-limited junk. With dual parallel ports.
Krazit continues, “Apple asked Intel to design the special Core 2 Duo chip last year as it was putting together the design that would become the MacBook Air. The chip fits into a package that’s significantly smaller than the garden-variety package Intel uses with its notebook chips, and it uses less power than the standard Core 2 Duo, allowing it to fit into the slim MacBook Air without melting the inside of the package or eating the battery.”
“While Apple got the scoop on that new chip–which, since the company asked Intel to build it, seems fair–Intel has other customers,” Krazit reports.
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Spark” for the heads up.]
Apple should get a small royalty from Intel for prompting them to make a chip that others how “covet”. Ha, ha, I’m sure Steve Jobs won’t hold his breath waiting for it!
Laptop envy.
Very common problem.
Who didn’t see this coming?
“such a lovely laptop. if it weren’t for the virus, it would have retained all the data. really.”
just a little late day humor ….
It will be called:
Fujitsu Vapor
Intel is already working on Apple’s next micro CPU… Once all the PC laptops will be (finally) thin, Mac will be again far in front!
Whoever is writing the MacDaily News take on these stories needs medication.
Mmmmmmmmm medication
LOL at “dual parallel ports” comment. =) don’t forget the 9-pin RS-232 and a PS/2 keyboard connector!
if apple were to buy a company with all the money it had in reserve, they should buy intel. hey steve, do you stockholders a favor and buy intel.