Intel has officially presented the Intel Ultra Mobile Platform 2007 (formerly known as McCaslin) and announced the new Menlow architecture with Silverthorn processors for 2008. They have also given us a peek and poke over Redflag‘s MIDinux Linux distribution, which apparently has been designed for those mobile devices that can’t decide if they want to be an iPhone or a PSP when they grow up.
But despite the obvious ripoff interface inspiration, MIDinux is quite interesting because it marks a departure from the Microsoft-based UMPCs, of which the 7-inch HTC Shift is going to be one of the 2007 platform flagships. In fact, it opens a new category of consumer entertainment-oriented, more compact UMPC called MID (yet another acronym that means either “Mobile Internet Device” or “Those Cupertino Rascals May Be Onto Something Again—Let’s Try to do the Same Before It’s Too Late.” Not sure which, but one of the two). More details after the jump.
(And kudos to APC for grabbing that first tasty pic up top. -ed.au)
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