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Analyst: Intel-based thin laptops have design issues

 

Published 7/1/2009 by Brooke Crothers at CNET News - Business Tech

An analyst said Wednesday that some PC makers are hitting snags as they try to bring out ultra-thin laptops designed around Intel's latest low-power chips, causing them to opt, in some cases, for larger Netbooks instead. "Early production units being built in plastic, with the bottom case being plastic, ... Originally posted at Nanotech - The Circuits Blog (link)

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