Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 16th Apr 2007 15:47 UTC, submitted by george
Intel is developing its own take on the mini-tablet, with a new ultra-mobile PC platform to be announced at this week's Intel Developer Forum in Beijing. The big surprise? It's based on Linux. In the meantime, Intel announced new details of its forthcoming Santa Rosa PC platform, including a significant revision of the Core 2 Duo chip.
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Too bad I really don't use my computer in an intensive enough way to justify the cost. The dynamic speed enhancement technology is a really good idea in this world of mostly single-threaded compute-intensive tasks. Unless the task is naturally parallel, a single-threaded, efficient algorithm will do it faster on a fast processor than on two moderate processors due to lower cache-sync overheads and contention over memory, I presume.
When hybrid HDDs become widely available, the flash cache thing will be my first upgrade. Vista is more aggressive with embedded flash caches because it can be guaranteed that they will never be surprise removed. Keeping the HDD off for minutes at a time will cause a significant improvement in battery life and noise.