QUANTA UNVEILS SNAPDRAGON POWERED SMARTBOOK

Plenty of non-Intel devices have started hitting the market. Lenovo has announced its plans to release a Snapdragon powered smartbook. Now Quanta has unveiled another smartbook. This machine too will be powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processor. It will run on Google’s Android OS.

Only the prototype is ready at the moment. The demo video released by Quanta shows a mini laptop with 3 USB 2.0 ports, a mini-HDMI connector, a microSD reader and a combination of microphone and headphone jacks.

In terms of thickness the machine is comparable to Sony’s Vaio X. But just not expect it to have similar guts.

QUANTA COMPUTER PLANS OUT PRODUCTION FOR THE FUTURE INTEL

Quanta Computer has clutched orders for Intel's next production Classmate PC and is anticipated to establish shipping in the 1st quarter of 2009, according to sources at Taiwan laptop producers.Shipment volumes of the new-fangled Classmate PC in 2009 are projected to be around 2 million units. Consignments were around 100,000 components in 2007 and are anticipated to hit 500,000 elements in 2008. Intel has corroborate that Quanta will be producing the new-fangled Classmate PC, but whispered the preceding generation Classmate will go on with shipping too with the innovative OEM partner, Elite group Computer System (ECS), still producing. Intel's subsequently age band Classmate PC will characteristic rotatable touch panel.