First Yonah/Napa notebook announced!

NEC unveils first 'Yonah' notebook

NEC has announced what may well be the first notebook to be based on Intel's upcoming 65nm, dual-core processor, 'Yonah'.

The Japanese manufacturer's LaVie RX LR900/ED, announced yesterday, will contain the new CPU, backed by 512MB of DDR 2 SDRAM - the upper limit's 1.5GB - and Intel's 945 Express chipset, aka 'Callistoga' and derived from the 945 desktop chipset series.
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Shipping under the Centrino brand, the LR900/ED contains an 802.11a/b/g Wi-Fi adaptor: Intel's ProWireless 3945ABG. The machine will also provide Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity.

The notebook will ship with a 1400 x 1050, 14.1in display driven by the 945 Express' integrated GMA 950 graphics core. NEC is building in a 100GB hard disk and a DVD±RW/-RAM/+R dual-layer optical drive. There's a PC Card slot into which users can slip a bundled SD/xD/MemoryStick reader. There are four USB 2.0 ports and a four-pin FireWire connector. Gigabit Ethernet is built-in, too, along with the usual 56Kbps modem.

NEC said the 2kg machine will run for approximately 4.1 hours on a single battery charge.

What NEC didn't say was when the machine will ship - 'sometime in 2006' was as close as it got to a launch timeframe. Yonah is expected to debut early next year as part of the launch of the third-generation Centrino platform.

NEC didn't say what version of Yonah it will use. The chip is expected to debut at 1.66GHz, 1.83GHz and 2GHz as the T2300, T2400 and T2500, respectively. ®

From: http://www.theregister.com/2005/12/20/nec_lavie_yonah/

See also here:
http://www.lostcoders.net/news/nec-unveils-first-yonah-notebook/

 

Thanks for the information ivar.

I'm surprised it only can go to 1.5GB, but then again, most users can't even use 1GB.

Cheers,

 

I am also surprised that "2kg machine will run for approximately 4.1 hours on a single battery charge". I think it's below our expectations for Yonah. Centrino-I Benq notebook (2.2kg, 14") also does almost 2 hours on one 4400mAh battery.

 

Photo from Engadget 12-19:


Combine the photo with the specs from theregister and we know almost nothing more a good guess would have produced.

The lack of price and ship date coupled with NEC's being a non-player in the US market make this a so-what. Too bad.

Hermit

 

This article actually presumes that the notebook prices will be lower next year.
It also speculates about new light and stylish apple laptops.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2005/12/19/2003285097

 

According to Susumu Sakamoto ( NEC representative in Tokio)
the price of this model will be $1945.

 

Hi ivar,

How does this price compare with a similiarly equiped Pentium M? Knowing this we could estimate the ~cost of a Core Duo.

Thanks,
Hermit

 

The estimated costs of Yonahs were already published. They are only slightly higher that the costs of PMs of "comparable" (whatever it means in this case) class.