With Microsoft Policies about Windows 7 Starter edition and its "What a Netbook is to me..." policy, thing will change a lot in the months to come. No netbook should have more than 10" or more than 1GB RAM? That's bullshit, But IMO with the release of Windows 7 just months from now, the "Ultrathin" or "Ultraportable" laptops (12" kinda) will be greatly boosted, because of course CPU's like Dual Core Neo or Congo for that matter will outperform Atom's and netbooks, and of course AMD offers great performance/cost on this (or all) kind of things. It wouldn't be surprising to see a drop in small laptop prices with more than 2GB of RAM and Dual core CPU's for Windows 7 (even if u use them only for web and office).
Let's just hope that AMD can make it to the 45nm Mobile area soon enough or it will just be left behind (again), history has shown us that AMD Power Efficient designs are actually competitive while working even one generation behind 130->90->65->45nm. But this time it seems Congo will have to shrink itself if he wants to make it to the beauty contest finals. AMD Phenom II is already in 45nm so why don't they start planning on going there with mobile while they still can catch up.
HP's Jon Rubenstein told us that his company wanted to veer in a new direction, and veer it surely did -- the HP Veer 4G will arguably be the smallest fully-functional smartphone on the market when it goes on sale May 15th.
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With Microsoft Policies about Windows 7 Starter edition and its "What a Netbook is to me..." policy, thing will change a lot in the months to come. No netbook should have more than 10" or more than 1GB RAM? That's bullshit, But IMO with the release of Windows 7 just months from now, the "Ultrathin" or "Ultraportable" laptops (12" kinda) will be greatly boosted, because of course CPU's like Dual Core Neo or Congo for that matter will outperform Atom's and netbooks, and of course AMD offers great performance/cost on this (or all) kind of things. It wouldn't be surprising to see a drop in small laptop prices with more than 2GB of RAM and Dual core CPU's for Windows 7 (even if u use them only for web and office).
Let's just hope that AMD can make it to the 45nm Mobile area soon enough or it will just be left behind (again), history has shown us that AMD Power Efficient designs are actually competitive while working even one generation behind 130->90->65->45nm. But this time it seems Congo will have to shrink itself if he wants to make it to the beauty contest finals. AMD Phenom II is already in 45nm so why don't they start planning on going there with mobile while they still can catch up.