Canonical Ubuntu - Now for Tablets

If you're a big Ubuntu user like myself and love it, rejoice! Canonical is developing Ubuntu for tablets. It is based on Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) which is supposed to be release in October. The tablet version will be simplified and touch friendly and will also have on-screen keyboard for all those typing needs. Canonical is currently working with Freescale, Marvell, Texas Instruments, Pixel Qi and Intel  for this project. With Ubuntu 10.10 out in October, my guess is we might be able to see Ubuntu tablets by late fall.

Canoe Lake plaform - make things Ultrathin!

Intel has just revealed their new Canoe Lake platform and claims this new processor can allow notebooks to be super slim and thin. How thin? Let's think 14mm. This new dual-core processor is a refinement of the Atom-based Pine Trail platform and uses thermal cooling, meaning there's not fan needed for cooling. The new Canoe Lake is currently on production and should be available during the holidays. Wonder what we can get if Canoe Lake and Hitachi Z-series hard disk were to meet.

Via: Tom's Hardware and The Register

Ultra-thin notebooks with Intel Core i-series

Think about it. Having a notebook as thin as CD-case and yet desktop powerful. It's now possible with Intel's Core i-series ULV (Ultra Low Voltage) processors. The new 32nm Nehalam chips will have 32% performance boost that previous ULVs with 20% power reduction than standard core processors and 32% smaller. These new chips will also include integrated high-definition graphics capabilities and will use Intel's Turbo Boost technology for those performance boost when needed. We should expect notebooks with these processor from Acer, Asus, Lenovo and MSI soon.

Via: ZDNet UK and Intel

Shortage of Arrandale chips leads to premium prices

Shortages of Core i3 and i5 notebook processors has led to chip buyers paying 20 percent premiums on contract prices in a competition to outbid each other. Looking at this situation, AMD might have a chance to win market share in supplying microprocessors for laptops.

The shortage of Arrandale chips might affect smaller vendors but won't really have much of an effect on larger vendors. Converge also believe that the Arrandale shortage must ease soon or it will have a prolonged effect and according to Shawn Rau, "I don't think that the shortage will be so acute as to hold back the market and raise system prices significantly," is what he said.

Via: Computerworld

MacBook Pro 15" Core i5 - stripped!

Our friends at iFixit.com has toredown many MacBook Pro to date and they're not gonna stop! Even the new MBP Core i5 is not spared!

MacBook Pro - now with i5 and i7

The MacBook Pro, finally with Core i5 and i7.

Experimental 48-core processor to be shipped to academic instituition

Intel is planning to ship computers loaded with 48-core processors to universities by end of Q2 this year. I guess this means we'll still won't be able to get out hands on it.