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Intel's Atom laptots 'are here'

Ed

WTF is a Laptot 

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I googled it incase i am missing something but all i got was this

Laptots were African colonial troops in the service of France between 1750 and the early ... Senegalese laptots in Central Africa with French officer, 1890

Its from wikki so its probably wrong

blah

What's a laptot? 

Laptot doesn't sound particularly appealing.. regardless of the CPU used. Sounds like a toy doll that would just cry and urinate all over you, why does Intel think people would want this?

Andrew Moore

Dadi Perlmutter 

now there's a name you just have to love...

Anonymous Coward

Missing the point 

Personally I want something just fast enough to do the job. Give me lower and lower and lower power requirements over faster and faster and faster chips any time.

Nic

laptot = uttra portable sub notebook 

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If so I think it's a pretty clever name and shame all you haters.

Neil Barnes

@Anonymous Coward 

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Exactly right... I'll almost always trade speed for battery life. How fast does it have to be, anyway? If you can decompress and display a film in real time, that's all that's needed for the majority of tiny portables.

Sarah Bee

Re: laptot = uttra portable sub notebook 

(Written by Reg staff)

Of course not. It's a typo. I'm just not going to fix it because that isn't what I do all day long when I'm not comment-wrangling.

Tsk.

William Towle

Re: Missing the point 

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AC1> "Give me lower and lower and lower power requirements over faster and faster and faster chips any time."

I'd settle for something that doesn't run so hot for my next choice (not surprised, or complaining, honest - my EeePC[701] has already proven useful at work when I'd only brought it in to keep myself amused on the train). This sounds promising.

[@Ed: WTF indeed. Did you not think to follow the search results that led back to El Reg for an appropriate explanation??!]

Andrew

Laptot = computer for children? 

Gates Horns

Or is that a Mac?

Anonymous Coward

@Laptot = computer for children? 

No ... laptots are small computers that use laptotty in their advertising

Anonymous Coward

@laptot = ultra portable sub notebook 

Laptot, get it, that's a good name for those ultra, small, or small cheap computer laptop style device thingies.

Kudos to elReg for thinking up such a neat word.

Laptot :)

b

i prefer "baby laptops" ;) 

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anyway, it's better than "Small Cheap Computers" which is a crap name and kinda too vague as well, a desktop could be "small" and "cheap"?

here's a leedle collection of (mostly reg!) stories about the little bloighters!

cheers,

bill ;)

http://www.eupeople.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=487

Anonymous Coward

Howabout.... 

Coat

Lapslop = for manufacturers who throw any old hardware in.

Lapflop = over priced, over hyped, under powered.

Lapjot = so underpowered you can only use notepad.

Lapyacht = weather proofed laptop.

.........Oh the English language....ain't it fun!

Britt Johnston

I'm waiting for the i-tot 

Jobs Halo

sez macboi

Schultz

Next up: legtop 

... to small to fit on the lap

Anonymous Coward

Sometimes I think Intel is going to quantity not quality 

Gates Horns

So does anyone think Intel hasn't really bumped performance over the last year but is simply inundating the market with so many chips people will think, "They must be designing better stuff then AMD, in the last 6 months they've released 3 generations of CPUs!"

Adrian Tritschler

Slaptop 

Paris Hilton

slaptop, the mobile PC that doubles as a personal defence system

Henry Cobb

laptot = Santa's little petioner 

Joke

I want a minilaptop for X-mass please.

Andrew Haveland-Robinson

sLaptop 

Happy

Secure Laptop... (is there such a thing?)