The success of budget notebook Asus Eee PC pushes slightly other participants to the creation of competitive decisions. We already talked about the processors Intel Diamondville and Shelton platform , but it was considered, that it will be used in inexpensive desktop computers. Associate with reference to traditional
sources reported that Shelton platform will become base for budget notebook, which will begin to appear in the third quarter .
The single core processor Diamondville will be released on 45 nm technology, it will obtain the default frequency 1.6 GHz, 533 MHz bus and the energy consumption level will be approximately 3.5 W for entire platform, which consists on chipset i945GSE with the built-in video (DirectX 9) and wireless connection 802..11g module , also solid-state disk and display with diagonal 7-8 inch will consume about 8 W , this will allow the notebook to
work from the battery up to 3-4 hour. The chipset used support single-channel memory Ddr-2.
The cost of notebook in the examined configuration will lie within the limits $300-500. In the second or third quarter of the following year Intel plans to release Diamondville dual core version . Shelton notebook are already developed by Gigabyte and MSI, companies Acer, HP and Dell will join later. The appearance in Eee PC of immediately several competitors can go for the benefit of users.