Comments on: Intel launches chips for low-cost, thin laptops

Chip giant is launching its line of processors for thin, inexpensive laptops at Computex in Taipei.

[slickuser]

Bring it on!

[Seaspray0]

I have no doubts that these "inexpensive" notebooks will be called "cheap" by one particular company. I also have no doubts they will sell well after seeing what's happening in the netbook market.

[bakedpatato]

wonder if the MBA is gonna switch back to the fully Intel platform; this and the Nvidia video card snafu will make Intel look even more attractive...unless the GS40 has really really bad graphics performance...below the Ion's 9300 would be the lower bound, I guess as Ion can barely do 720p. As much as Atom is not that fast, I doubt these CPUs will hugely faster, perhaps enough to make 720p play,but nothing more.

[ikramerica--2008]

I don't think so unless the GS40 supports OpenCL and how well it implements it. Snow Leopard will be optimized for OpenCL, which is one reason for the wholesale switch to NVidia, who they've been working closely with.

[pithenumber]

If the current trend continues, the GS40 will have horrid graphics performance

[codynews]

I play HD movies now (well, compressed .mkv files) on my cheesy weak netbook today.

Cody

[ikramerica--2008]

Not at 1080p you don't. The Intel 950 GPU combined with the ATOM is not capable of such a thing. People had trouble with this chipset and 1.83 GHz Core Duos and even 2GHz Core2Duos at 1080p.

[Seaspray0]

@ikramerica. If I was watching it on a 40+ inch screen, I might care. With a 15 inch screen, the resolution is just fine.

[Bill_I]

Lets have the Dynabook as soon as technology makes it possible.