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MacBook Air competitor packs thrifty Intel chip
A notebook from MSI portends the crush of lower-cost, Intel-based MacBook-Air-like laptop designs to come.
As I've written before, consumer ultra-low-voltage (CULV) chips will arrive in earnest this summer. The X-Slim X340 from MSI (Micro-Star International) is using the ULV SU3500, a precursor to lower-cost CULV Intel chips to come.
(Note: On April 19, Intel cut prices (PDF) on a wide range of processors. Though the SU3500 didn't see any cuts, the prices on its low-power cousins, the SL9400 and SU9400, were reduced 10 percent and 9 percent, respectively.)
What is CULV exactly? Well, one thing it's … Read more
