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Intel just announced its plan on its Core 2 Solo single-core processors in Q3 2007. Instead of normal edition, the upcoming Core 2 Solo has ULV (Ultra Low-Voltage) edition only, targeting for the Sub-Note market. Regarding with the rumor concerning Merom based Celeron M is a dual core, Intel has also announced it should be a single core. The rumor is busted.

In the previous plan, since dual core has been put into a common place, there never exists single core Core 2 Solo but Celeron M 500 for entry-level market. However, since single core has a better power consumption than dual core, Intel decided to make Core 2 Solo ULV for the need Sub-Note market.

The new Core 2 Solo ULV includes two models: U2200 (1.2 GHz/1MB L2/533MHz) and U2100 (1.06 GHz/1MB L2/533MHz). They are set to replace U1500 and U1400. These two models have very good power consumption at 5W only, and are support for Intel VT, EIST, XD Bit and 64.

It should be noted that Core 2 Solo ULV would be released in Socket M interface instead of Socket P for Santa Rosa. The reason is as simple as that 945GM chipset has half power consumption (7W TDP) than 965GM (14W TDP); limited battery capacity is a limitation to Sub-Note so that devices have to use as less power as possible. Therefore, Core 2 Solo ULV is released for Napa Refresh platform only.

Regarding with the rumor concerning Merom based Celeron M is a dual core, Intel has also announced the specification of Celeron M 500 family; it is a single core. Besides Celeron M 520 and 530, Intel has a Celeron M 523 ULV (933MHz/1MB L2/533MHz) edition planned to release in Q3 2007. This model also has very good power consumption at 5W only, but Intel VT, EIST, XD Bit and 64 are all disabled.

Via hkepc.

Dospara announced the their last model, the Prime Note Helios DN.

Weighting 8.7-pounds, the Helios DN has a 17-inch widescreen display. It features an Intel Core 2 Duo T5500 processor(1,66-GHz), up to 1 GB DDR2 memory, a 2 megapixel integrated webcam, a 100 GB hard-drive, a NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600 graphics and a DVD Super-Multi drive.

It also have four USB 2.0 ports, a FireWire port, HDMI, a 3-in-1 memory card reader, and 802.11b/g WLAN.

The Prime Note Helios DN is now available in Japan, priced at $1,622.

If you use a laptop and you upgraded your system from Windows XP to Windows Vista you may have to disable some of the new graphics features to avoid a decrease in battery life. Also, it is reported that the wireless connection under Windows Vista may cause laptop batteries to drain faster.

The battery consuming for Windows Vista laptop users will rise because of extra power needed to run the high-end processors, graphics cards and memory capacity required to support Vista.

“Vista demands more compute resources for a given application than XP does. So you need a heavier battery or you will have shorter battery life because of the greater demand for watts,” said Phil Hester, chief technology officer of AMD, in remarks made at the company’s annual analyst day in New York on Thursday.

The consumer version of Windows Vista was announced to arrive on January 30, 2007.The business version was already launched last month.

CompAmerica today launched the Tiger Shark 9500 x2, a laptop designed especially for gamers or Multimedia fans! It features a 20-inch widescreen with 1680 x 1050 resolution. The “Extreme Gamers" has a dual SLI nVidia GeForce Go 7950 GT graphics option, while for modeling and engineering there is dual SLI nVidia Quadro FX Go 2500M, both with 2X512MB of DDR3 video memory in SLI mode.

The Tiger Shark is powered by AMD Turion 64 X2 dual core processor and has built-in four-speaker audio system with subwoofer.It also supports up to 2048MB of DDR2 main memory and comes with up to 120GB SATA hard drive and a DVD burner.

Tiger Shark 9500 x2 has a starting price of $3740 when configured with dual GeForce Go 7950 GT or $4257 with dual Quadro FX Go 2500M.

Via compamerica.

The limited edition "Hello Kitty" laptop was announced today. With only 100 pieces to hit stores it sure that if you want to make someone happy you must hurry up.

The laptop is an Epson NA101 White edition with a 12.1″ screen (1024 x 768), powered by a Celeron M 423 (1.06 Ghz), 512 MB RAM, 40GB hard drive, Combo drive, and fingerprint security, Ethernet, Wi-Fi and a 56K modem all running on XP Home edition.

The laptop has Hello Kitty on the front part of the screen and is preloaded with themes, wallpapers and icon of the Kitty.

The collectors edition laptop is available in Japan only and it comes in a package with a 4 GB pink iPod Nano and is priced at 248,000 Yen ($ 2100).