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Apple expected to unveil ultra-slim notebook at Macworld
- pg 19y agoI can't wait. It's wrong that after all these years of Moore's Law, my computer is still the heaviest thing in my bag.
- ivankirigin 19y agoYou _could_ run linux off a gumstix. http://gumstix.com/ http://gumstix.com/ With exponential progress, we prove that desire expands at an even faster pace. It reminds me of a joke made by a general to a bunch of military tech makers: "our marines carry 100lb of extremely light weight gear"
- nickb 19y agoNo screen and no keyboard.... the add-ons for gumstix would be heavier than a MacBook.
- ivankirigin 19y agoMy point is just that the cpu, mobo, battery, and drives of a laptop could easily fit in 1/10th the size of a MacBook sans monitor & keyboard.
- pg 19y agoI have a Nokia N800 and a folding keyboard I can use with it, but the screen is too small for real work. I want something with a 12" screen that's very light.
- ivankirigin 19y agoI'm told the next generation of NVidia chips are going to be amazing. A friend is working in high end audio, making a "iphone on steroids" touch-screen remote for the system. The tablet will have full 3D graphics for an 8" screen with half the thickness of an iphone. With a tiny folding keyboard, solid state storage, and some sacrifices on batter life for size, hardware designers should be able to put an ultra-ultra-portable on the market within a year or two.
- mov 19y agoAsus Eee looks great for that, but I'm with you, a thin Macbook makes me feel happy :-)
- ivankirigin 19y agoThe screen is actually pretty small on the Eee. Too small for any development unless you're using a curt language and exclusively single character variables :)
- naish 19y agoI'm with you. Biding my time until I can upgrade from my trusty 12" PowerBook.
- Tichy 19y agoSubnotebooks are definitely the way to go!
- ctkrohn 19y agoThis has been rumored for a year or two now. I'll believe it (and probably buy it) when I see it. The Asus Eee is nice, but I'd like something I can comfortably touch-type on...
- bayareaguy 19y ago"Apple didn't need to take thunder from CES, there was nothing to take," Michael Gartenberg, an analyst with Jupiter Research, wrote on the company's blog.
- rms 19y agoI hope it also has a multi-touch screen.
- mhb 19y agoAnd a trackstick