Intel plans $200 laptop
Intel has detailed plans to team up with Asustek Computer, the world's largest maker of computer motherboards, to make a notebook PC that would cost as little as $200 and be aimed at mass markets in developing countries, says Australian IT.
Intel, the world's largest chipmaker, has distributed laptops to children in developing countries for years, but has yet to put them into the kind of mass production planned by another group, the One Laptop Per Child Foundation.
Most recently, Intel launched its Classmates initiative, which aims to ship a modest 1 230 low-cost PCs to governments in Asia this year, mostly in trial arrangements.
Apple adds new Intel processors
Apple has updated its line of MacBook Pro computers to include configurations with the latest Core 2 Duo processors and up to 4GB of DDR2 SDRAM, reports TG Daily.
The new configuration is based on Intel's Santa Rosa platform, with an 800MHz front-side bus. It also includes an Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT graphics card.
The Pro comes with 4MB of shared L2 cache, as well as 2GB of DDR2 SDRAM memory, which can be upgraded to 4GB. Apple says the new Intel processor can run Mac applications 50% faster than the previous Core Duo model.
BMW turns to Linux
Motor manufacturer BMW Group is using Novell's SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLED) and Xen virtualisation software in its data centre, according to Tectonic.
After testing by the BMW IT Research Centre, in North America and Germany, the group decided to deploy virtualised data centre solutions using SLED 10 and Xen hypervisor, running on Intel x86 dual-core processor servers.
BMW joins a number of other motor manufacturers, including Audi, running Novell's SuSE Linux operating system.
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