Source: Digitimes The EEEPC, a laptop with an 7" screen sold for less than € 300, manufactured by Asus, has met with huge success despite minimalist performance. Already other PC manufacturers want to roll with the momentum and also offer machines at entry level for deflated prices.
That is certainly the phenomenon, in the face of the computing world's traditions, which has prompted Intel to accelerate the release of its platform Shelton, which will arrive as early as May, instead of later in the year.
It is the architecture of a very cheap motherboard and processors , entirely in line with this new method.
It will consist of engraved processors in 45nm low frequency (roughly those of Air Macbook) and a chipset with integrated video. The power requirement is not yet known.
Of course, one might wonder whether Apple will follow this wave and propose a machine two to three times cheaper than a MacBook. On paper, this would be attractive, but at the same time it would be so far from their usual products, so one can still doubt it. However, a laptop under 500 € running Mac OS X could be a huge success.
[translation by jeremy]
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