An Apple Ultraportable

[Topper]

Can Apple make an ultra thin ultraportable with the materials that are available right now?
Wouldn't the motherboard be too big and the processors too hot?
Isn't it more likely that Apple will wait until Montevina/Penyrn come out to make the motherboard smaller and the processor cooler?

 

[edesignuk]

Other people make them there for Apple could too if they wanted to.

 

[colto]

Can Apple make an ultra thin ultraportable with the materials that are available right now?
Wouldn't the motherboard be too big and the processors too hot?
Isn't it more likely that Apple will wait until Montevina/Penryn come out to make the motherboard smaller and the processor cooler?

It's possibly with current motherboards and processors but Penryn would make it a little cooler thus allowing for more power. So in a way it could make ultra portable laptops more appealing to manufacture. Montevina doesn't really add anything in terms of cooling though. It is mainly about the SSE4 instruction set being added, the performance gains, and the WiMax support.

 

[Sesshi]

Sony has the skillz. Apple does not (yet).

Remember Apple's last crack at it weighed as much as a regular laptop.

 

[zioxide]

Sure Apple could make an ultraportable. If any other company can do it (sony, dell xps 1330) then Apple could definitely do it.

The thing you have to remember is a true ultraportable laptop doesn't use the same components as the MBPs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...essors#.22Merom.22_.28low-voltage.2C_65_nm.29

If you look that that, you'll see Intel makes special ULV cpus for ultraportables. They generate less heat and use less power than the regular Merom chips.

If apple were to make a true ultraportable, they'd probably use the LV L7500 which runs at 1.6GHz.

 

[colto]

Sure Apple could make an ultraportable. If any other company can do it (sony, dell xps 1330) then Apple could definitely do it.

The thing you have to remember is a true ultraportable laptop doesn't use the same components as the MBPs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...essors#.22Merom.22_.28low-voltage.2C_65_nm.29

If you look that that, you'll see Intel makes special ULV cpus for ultraportables. They generate less heat and use less power than the regular Merom chips.

If apple were to make a true ultraportable, they'd probably use the LV L7500 which runs at 1.6GHz.

Agreed. There is no reason Apple couldn't make an ultra portable. The question is how good would it be? I doubt Apple is going to make an ultra portable unless they can make it perform almost as well as a 15" MBP. Apple considers the MBP to be it's premium laptop and as such will only make them out of performance parts. A 1.6 GHz processor just doesn't cut it and they can't use a much bigger processor due to the heat issues. Apple tries to keep stuff cool. They even underclock parts in the MBP to achieve this cooling. Maybe with the Penryns we will see a smaller MBP....maybe. We will have to see how they perform.