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Apple's "ultra-thin and lightweight notebook" with NAND flash may take longer - and it was expected to be mentioned at WWDC in June... but has now been put forward.
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Citing a maturing timeline, people familiar with the initiative now have the chic notebook tracking for the latter half of the year, with a contingency plan in place to transition the device into a Macworld 2008 product should engineers require the additional time.
There is recent news that Intel's Santa Rosa initiative will be shipping as early as next month. The Santa Rosa platform provides NAND-flash caching to improve boot times and battery lives. (Although Apple may be working on multiple future laptops and this 'subnotebook' may not be the same as a Santa Rosa based Mac laptop)
If true, this rumour, indicates that Apple's own version of this technology will not be released until late 2007 or early 2008. This timeframe is matches this analys report:
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The maker of the popular iPod music player and Macintosh computers hopes to introduce so-called flash memory in small computers known as subnotebooks in the second half of 2007
The other day Digitimes reports that Apple has been negotiating with Samsung for volume purchasing of more NAND flash.
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Apple is asking for 400-500 million 4Gbit NAND flash equivalent chips from Samsung, the sources said. Since the volume requested by Apple is 10-15% more than what the two parties agreed earlier, Samsung is not 100% sure its capacity can meet the need, the sources indicated.
These supplies are presumed to be for the iPod and iPhone... Apple could also be planning for future NAND-flash based laptops.
What do you think? Are you desperate for a subnotebook? Or are you still on your desktop pc...?