http://discuss.slashgear.com/topic/intel-push-for-culv-8220ultra-thin8221-adoption-over-netbooks Discuss Gadgets! en-US Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:36:02 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://discuss.slashgear.com/search.php http://discuss.slashgear.com/topic/intel-push-for-culv-8220ultra-thin8221-adoption-over-netbooks#post-179 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:04:11 +0000 Chris Davies 179@http://discuss.slashgear.com/ <blockquote><p>Intel <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-10287972-64.html" target="_blank">has continued</a> its attempts to coax the industry into CULV (consumer ultra-low voltage) so-called &#8220;ultra-thin&#8221; notebooks rather than netbooks, highlighting the shortcomings of the latter devices which, ironically, are generally based on the company&#8217;s own Atom N270 processor.  Speaking during Intel&#8217;s earnings conference call on Tuesday, CEO Paul Otellini described ultra-thins as &#8220;an affordable notebook that has more functionality [than a netbook].&#8221;</p> <p><img class="alignnone" title="MSI X-Slim X600 CULV notebook" src="http://www.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/msi_x-slim_x600_unboxing_1-480x372.jpg" alt="msi x slim x600 unboxing 1 480x372" width="480" height="372" /></p> </blockquote> <p><br/><a href="http://www.slashgear.com/intel-push-for-culv-ultra-thin-adoption-over-netbooks-1649590/">Intel push for CULV &#8220;ultra-thin&#8221; adoption over netbooks</a></p>