Different press sources have been saying different things, but AMD has made it clear that the company has no intention to produce a low-power processor that can be quite handy in the booming netbook market

AMD states that it prefers to look to machines like the MacBook Air for inspiration instead of griping the field already dominated by tiny PCs like Asus’s Eee PC line-up that has been powered by Intel Atom chips.

AMD’s CEO, Dirk Meyer says: “We are thinking about PC form factors and somewhat ignoring the netbook phenomenon right now.

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We can count netbook market among those really strong electronics markets that left in these credit-crunched days and Acer is planning to be the king of this saved kingdom.

The PC maker is feeling somewhat superior after it’s over £100m profit for Q3 financial results.

During the last three months, Acer has sold more than two million nebooks worldwide and its Aspire is the best seller among the range. The company is looking forward to grow further.

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There were reports that Dell would release its Mini Inspiron netbook on Friday, but according to some new reports it is not confirmed yet.

An interesting thing that leaked out from Mini Inspirion technical specs was that the customers would be free to choose between an open source Ubuntu version and Windows XP-based version.

Graham Morrison, who is Linux Format reviewer, says in this connection, “At the recent Linux World event, we have known about the company behind Ubuntu. It indirectly referred to a big announcement that tied Ubuntu to the coming netbook and we have been waiting for that news for quite long time.”

Morrison further adds, “The interesting part of the story is that the version of Ubuntu with the Dell machines will be the new ‘Netbook Remix’ edition.”

“This new version of Ubuntu is the best for the Atom processor and it has a new big-button interface very similar to those found in the Aspire One and EeePc.”

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