Intel rolled out a slew of new product plans at Computex this weekend, all packaged together in one announcement. But the one of the standout innovations is the ultra-slim Canoe Lake platform on the “world’s thinnest netbook.”
The Canoe Lake innovation platform was debuted at a keynote speech on the sharp-looking, 14-millimeter thin netbook pictured above. According to Intel, it is 50% thinner than any other netbook around at the moment. Capable of supporting single and dual-core Atom processors, the system is a prototype/reference of sorts, but we could be seeing something like this available by the holiday season.
Canoe Lake wasn’t the only Intel and netbook-related news. Acer’s CEO Gianfranco Lanci stated that future Acer netbooks and tablets powered by Intel Atom processors will be operating on the MeeGo open software platform.
While the MeeGo strategy is interesting, I can’t take my eyes off of that ridiculously-thin netbook above. Given that we don’t know any other stats about the machine combined with its groundbreaking portable frame, it’s probably going to end up on the pricey end. How much would you be willing to pay for such a computer?
