JP
It’s taken me a while to write this, as I’ve had to change my pants a few times through spontaneous bladder release over the sheer deliciousness of Intel’s Mobile Metro Notebook concept. Just 0.7 of an inch thick and a respectable 2.25 pounds in weight, it’s likely to feature the Penryn super-efficient processors the silicon company also announced today.
A cooperative effort with Ziba Design, it features a magnetically-attached portfolio sheath with built-in e-ink display to show your calendar, latest emails or just a photo of you posing with your laptop. Flash memory storage and Penryn’s power-management technology add up to a fourteen hour battery life, and built-in WiFi, EV-DO and WiMax chips (that are expected to hit the market late 2007/early 2008) make always-on connectivity a fact of life.
A VoIP-friendly noise-cancelling microphone array, biometrics using a fingerprint scanner and the facility to wipe the hard-drive remotely should the worst happen and your Metro get stolen round up an awesome package. Intel and Ziba admit that the cost of a production version would be painfully high, but I’ve a feeling they’d still find a market.
The World’s Thinnest Notebook [Business Week]
6 Responses to “Intel wows with ultra-thin notebook”
Jerome May 24, 2007
I thought Mac is sexy, but this just took my breath away, what a design on the laptop!
+3griz May 25, 2007
14 hour battery life? …now we’re talkin’!
But alas, that probably translates into a real world 7 hours.
+2Jing May 29, 2007
that is sick . . .
NeutralEwdison Then May 29, 2007
and trendy lol :) a lot of tech products now being use as fashion statement :)
NeutralThe Sledge May 31, 2007
14 hours could be best case, even if it was 7, that’s just shy of a full work-day. I would expect real world to be in the region of 9 or 10 hours. Good enough for long flights, etc.
Can I order one? Oh wait, it’s got to wait in line, I want my OLED tv first.
Neutralanon July 22, 2007
Wow. Except for that OS, that is slick!
Neutral