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Asus has announced availability of its Eee PC 1000, an addition to its popular range of ultra-small laptops that offers a slightly larger screen and keyboard than earlier models, plus a hard drive for Windows users.

Unveiled in June, the Eee PC 1000 has a 10in 1024 x 600 display and is based on Intel’s Atom processor combined with 1GB memory.

Earlier models had an 8.9in screen or smaller, and were based on Celeron processor technology.

The Eee PC 1000 ships in two versions; a Linux-based model has a 40GB Flash solid state disk (SSD) for storage and costs £369, while the Eee PC 1000H runs Windows XP from an 80GB hard drive and costs £349.
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Great news! For anyone who planning to buy any Intel processor, I guess this is the best time.

Here are the price cuts and please note that those are official Intel prices, actual prices will eventually reach those prices than they will be lower than that.

Q6600 From $224 to $193, which is a 13.84% cut.
E8500 From $266 to $183, which is a 31.20% cut
E8400 From $183 to $163, which is a 10.93% cut
E7200 From $133 to $113, which is a 15.04% cut

Q9650, at 3.00Ghz, 12MB cache, 1333Mhz FSB at $530
Q9400, at 2.66Ghz, 6MB cache, 1333Mhz FSB at $266.
E8600, at 3.33Ghz, 6MB cache, 1333Mhz FSB at $266
E7300, at 2.66Ghz, 3MB cache, 800Mhz FSB at 133$

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I’m using Intel Quad core processor for some times ago and I’m just wondering when can I have an Intel’s Quad-core for laptop. Yes, it’s officially announced “Aug 2008” by Sujan Kamran, regional marketing manager for client platforms at Intel in Singapore.

Referring to Yahoo! news,

Intel will release it’s first quad-core processor for laptops next month, rounding out a broad update to its mobile computing platform.

“We’re bringing quad-core to mobile in August,” said Sujan Kamran, regional marketing manager for client platforms at Intel in Singapore. Kamran declined to disclose specifics of the quad-core chip, which will carry Intel’s Core 2 Extreme moniker.

Getting a quad-core processor into a laptop is more about bragging rights than a genuine boost in performance. Very little PC software is designed to take advantage of multiple cores and it’s unclear what performance benefits a quad-core chip would offer over a dual-core chip, such as the 3.06GHz Core 2 Extreme QX9100.

While official details of the upcoming quad-core chip are scarce, Australian PC maker Pioneer Computers is taking preorders for laptops based on an unreleased quad-core mobile chip, the 2.53GHz Core 2 Extreme QX9300.
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This is what I’m waiting for which delayed about a month!

Intel officially released its Centrino 2 mobile platform for notebooks July 14, which includes a number of new Core 2 Duo processors, a new chip set and wireless technology that includes support for 802.11 draft-n wireless technologies and WiMax.

The Intel Centrino 2 platform is Intel’s fifth mobile platform and the chip maker is offering two different platforms during this release. The first is Centrino 2 for consumers, and the second is Centrino 2 with vPro that is geared toward enterprise customers.

The launch of Centrino 2 was delayed by about a month after Intel reported some problems with the company’s own integrated graphics and issues related to applying to the Federal Communications Commission for use of the draft-n wireless standards.

Still, the launch is a major event for Intel and shows the importance of notebooks and mobility both with consumers and with the enterprise. Intel is also planning to counter some of the momentum Advanced Micro Devices had when it released its new mobile platform in June.

Mooley Eden, vice president and general manager of Intel’s Platforms Group, emphasized that mobile computing is no longer just about processor performance and battery life. It’s also about style which is transforming the way laptops are being designed and the way vendors are developing slimmer and smaller laptops. This new style is finding its way from the consumer market and into the enterprise with notebooks such as the Lenovo X300.

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Dell is planning to introduce a low-cost notebook in August to join the low-cost notebook market, according to the market sources. The notebook will be manufactured by Compal Electronics, according to the sources.

Dell is coming to the low-cost notebook party relatively late, compared to other first-tier vendors such as Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Acer. However, the Dell E series low-cost notebook will be priced at only US$299, US$100 cheaper than Acer’s Aspire one, and the market sources estimates that Dell can ship 2-3 million units this year.

The panels for the Dell notebook will be provided by Samsung Electronics and Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO), and perhaps AU Optronics (AUO), when the panel makers begins mass production later in the third quarter. However, the sources noted that Dell will not use all three panel suppliers at the same time.

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