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Weekly Rumour Mill: Microsoft Sphere, multi-touch Macbooks, the $10 laptop, and Dual Core Atom
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Weekly Rumour Mill: Microsoft Sphere, multi-touch Macbooks, the $10 laptop, and Dual Core Atom

by Daniel Long  on Aug 1, 2008
Tags: Apple | Rumours | Microsoft | Asus | Eee | PC | SSD | flash | Mac
We take each week's best rumours from around the world and list them here in the Weekly Rumour Mill.
Rumour Mill: 28/7/08 – 1/08/08

This week: Microsoft has the power of the Sphere, Multi-touch Macbooks and will the worlds cheapest laptop really cost just $10?

Microsoft 'Sphere' – Sci-Fi inspired prototype videos online

Now this sounds cool, even if you’re not a Microsoft fan. We’ve seen it before in films like Minority Report and while this kind of technology seems firmly buried in the future, it’s actually just around the corner according to this report. SeattlePi have a nice little video showing you what’s to come.

More Macbook rumours - Glass, multi touch screens are coming

Another week, another set of Mac rumours. This time, it looks like we could be treated to a multi touch screen for the new range of Apple laptops. They’re expected to be much thinner than the current crop, use multi-touch gestures and ship with the new Centrino 2 chips.

Bigger Eee PC flash memory? It’s about time...

Flash memory manufacturer Buffalo have charged to the rescue, giving the Eee PC a helping hand in boosting its SSD memory. According to this source, 32GB and 64GB PCI-E SSDs will be available for the Asus Eee PC 900 and 901, which could really help the current 12 – 20 GB offerings of those models. A September release date looks likely.

$10 Indian laptop (we wish) – Debunked

Wait, a laptop that only costs $10? We were left scratching our head after news was announced by D. Purandeswari, Minister of State for Higher Education, at a conference in Delhi yesterday.

But somebody got the figures a little wrong and it was actually US$100. Hang on, that’s still pretty good.

Dual Core Atom on the way

A dual version of the popular Atom chip is supposably due to hit shelves in September, later this year, according to rumours. The scoop mentions it will be priced at $43, which will get you a dual-core Atom 330 with a 1.6GHz core speed, 533FSB speed and 1MB cache speed (two times 512KB per core).
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