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In the veritable avalanche of product announcements today in the wake of Intel’s Centrino 2 rollout, a tidbit from Lenovo caught my eye.

I was not surprised to see that the Chinese PC maker announced they would be adding a Centrino 2 powered series to their Ideapad line to be designated their G series, which is a prefix Lenovo often uses for budget consumer devices.

The inaugural unit in the series, the 14.1 inch G430 wasn’t a great surprise, nor was that they were targeting the entry level market with the laptop. What DID catch my attention was that they have more units in the series planned to target the NETBOOK market. Could we be seeing a 10 inch Centrino 2 powered Lenovo Ideapad in the future? I have a feeling we will be able to tell better as we see how the new Centrino 2 laptops do regarding energy management and power consumption. We may be looking at yet another example of Intel competing against itself, as Centrino 2 based laptops challange the tiny Intel Atom chip.

Time will tell. I love this industry.

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By day a department manager and writer for a major network device vendor...by night Zealot stalks the mean magnetic streets, striking fear into the hearts of bandwidth abusers and theme park mascots. Zealot has been involved with mobile devices for more than a decade now, starting off with dumb phones, moving to PDAs and then to smartphones, notebooks and netbooks with the odd PMP thrown in. Most of his mobile time currently is spent on a Treo Pro, Zune HD, Thinkpad T61, Gigabyte M912M or a Hackintoshed Compaq Mini 704. He proudly groks the Geek community and considers himself a Neo Maxi Zune Dweebie (thanks Will Wheaton!).