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Apple expected to unveil ultra-slim notebook at Macworld

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12 pointsnreece14 comments

I can't wait. It's wrong that after all these years of Moore's Law, my computer is still the heaviest thing in my bag.

You _could_ run linux off a gumstix. http://gumstix.com/

With exponential progress, we prove that desire expands at an even faster pace.

It reminds me of a joke made by a general to a bunch of military tech makers: "our marines carry 100lb of extremely light weight gear"

No screen and no keyboard.... the add-ons for gumstix would be heavier than a MacBook.

My point is just that the cpu, mobo, battery, and drives of a laptop could easily fit in 1/10th the size of a MacBook sans monitor & keyboard.

I have a Nokia N800 and a folding keyboard I can use with it, but the screen is too small for real work. I want something with a 12" screen that's very light.

I'm told the next generation of NVidia chips are going to be amazing. A friend is working in high end audio, making a "iphone on steroids" touch-screen remote for the system. The tablet will have full 3D graphics for an 8" screen with half the thickness of an iphone. With a tiny folding keyboard, solid state storage, and some sacrifices on batter life for size, hardware designers should be able to put an ultra-ultra-portable on the market within a year or two.

Asus Eee looks great for that, but I'm with you, a thin Macbook makes me feel happy :-)

The screen is actually pretty small on the Eee. Too small for any development unless you're using a curt language and exclusively single character variables :)

I'm with you. Biding my time until I can upgrade from my trusty 12" PowerBook.

Subnotebooks are definitely the way to go!

"Apple didn't need to take thunder from CES, there was nothing to take," Michael Gartenberg, an analyst with Jupiter Research, wrote on the company's blog.

This has been rumored for a year or two now. I'll believe it (and probably buy it) when I see it. The Asus Eee is nice, but I'd like something I can comfortably touch-type on...

I hope it also has a multi-touch screen.

And a trackstick

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