Intel notebook concept: skinny, connected and coming soon?
Hope you remember that thin and tres-chic concept notebook that Intel touted at their IDF last month. According to Business Week, the Intel codenamed "Metro" could see the manufacturing line as early as year end. The stylish concept showed off a notebook just 0.7-inches thick, will have integrated array microphones, a fingerprint reader, fashionable cover attachments and various connectivity options. Since Intel’s new Montevina chipsets are expected to offer WiFi and WiMAX capabilities, I’d guess that’s the platform under the hood.
Business Week got an advance, in-depth look at the unit and I was glad to see that the e-Ink external display appears to still be in play for this concept. A low to no-powered display on the outside has a myriad of uses without manhandling the battery.
I live really small laptops — since I know how you feel, I won’t call them ultra portable.
But .7-inches isn’t that out of the ordinary, in fact a few years ago I owned a Sharp um32w that was also that thin, and not just in one spot. I loved that little guy, but like many others it had power problems. I still have it in my closet in hopes that someone starts a class action suit and forces Sharp to fix it for free. No I don’t want a refund, but a 802.11G upgrade might be nice.
They compare these laptops to (or push them into) jewelery. I bet it’s because the price for developing such a laptop is uber expensive. In other words, Paris hilton will have a laptop now, great, but who will teach her how to use it???