Intel has announced on a new "innovation platform" that it claims will enable the world's thinnest netbooks. Intel claims that its new Canoe Lake platform, a refinement of the on the company's Atom-based Pine Trail platform, will allow for netbooks to be built at an anorexic 14mm thick. By comparison, Dell's ultrathin notebook …

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Tuesday 1st June 2010 23:03 GMT Anonymous Coward

the Sony X series already thinner than that

Sony managed to make a 12.2mm thick netbook with the old chips, I wonder how thin they can possibly go with this. At this point hard drives are likely the limiting factor so they may have to go ssd only

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Wednesday 2nd June 2010 06:17 GMT John Smith 19

Too fat.

So what? that's at least a couple of mm above what *can* be done already.

I have a business notebook. 10mm thick. No moving parts. Infinite battery life and infinite range of color display.

Replacements available at all leading stationers.

Bring me some real news.

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1. Wednesday 2nd June 2010 19:50 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  Re: 10mm
  
  ... and we would all love to know the brand, model and specs (particularly the infinite capacity battery) of your business laptop...
  
  Unless, of course, you are talking about a paper page-based actual notebook. Then the only question is spiral bound, or perforated?
  
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  1. Thursday 3rd June 2010 06:44 GMT John Smith 19
    
    AC@19:50
    
    "Then the only question is spiral bound, or perforated"
    
    Perforated, to allow backup and long term storage.
    
    Seriously I've never found a laptop that didn't look (and often was) clumsy and fragile with a stupid battery life. Has anyone run identical laptops loaded with Windows and Linux under identical benchmarks to see what the battery life difference is? I'll bet *most* battery tech improvement has been sunk under Windows overhead, but I'm not certain.
    
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    1. Thursday 3rd June 2010 12:18 GMT Al 6
      
      Phoronix did those tests
      
      They compared default installs of Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.04 on an Asus Eee 1201N and a Lenovo T61, and Windows won every time. The original Aspire One needed a number of manual tweaks to save power if you weren't using the Acer-supplied distro, and I suspect the same is true if these.
      
      http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_windows_part2&num=1
      
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      1. Saturday 5th June 2010 11:43 GMT John Smith 19
        
        @AI 6
        
        Astonishing. I'll admit I'd figured the Linux distro would win hands down. #
        
        The article reckons it's mostly due to ACPI support being much better in Windows (let me guess MS had a big hand in writing the standard?)
        
        Something to play for with the next Linux release?
        
        BTW lowish power ROM bootable *nixes have been around since at *least* the mid 80'x
        
        Mine's the one with a 1984 copy of Byte showing the M68k based *nix HP computer
        
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Wednesday 2nd June 2010 07:35 GMT Daniel Evans

Fragile?

Does it make a nice noise if you snap it in two?

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1. Saturday 5th June 2010 12:10 GMT John Smith 19
  
  @Daniel Evans
  
  "Does it make a nice noise if you snap it in two?"
  
  Not *quite* as nice as this thing would. OTOH I can still use *both* halves afterward.
  
  Being non-reflective its "display" surface is also immune from passing cats mistaking it for an intruder on its home territory. This happened to a friend of mine's IBM laptop (yes it was back when IBM still *made* them) and his *very* well fed feline.
  
  LCD screens have never been cheap.
  
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Wednesday 2nd June 2010 07:37 GMT Mark York 3

Sexy - But...

I'd like to know the projected expected battery run time, says he with a HP Tablet extra external battery pack that gives me about 8 hours.

I'll take hours over minutes.

Paris - Mainly out of habit, any pun that crosses my mind will undoubtedly be the same as yours.

Night Night everyone (7 hours behind you lot).

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