Intel pushing for eight-hour laptops, sooner rather than later

CNET's reporting that Intel recently moved up a deadline it set for laptop makers by two years, to 2008 — that's the date they want to see thin-and-light laptops that can run for eight hours straight, without an external battery. The current standard for laptops is around four hours (though no one's told our laptops about that). To hit the magic 8-hour mark, manufacturers are looking at a number of different options, including better batteries and more power-efficient displays, hard drives and processors, like Intel's upcoming Yonah laptop chip.