Dell will equip its AMD based notebooks with ATi graphics. Shuttle is not doing so well these days and sales continue to drop. Prices of dual core Yonah based notebooks are dropping while market share increases. The new Merom based MacBooks will boost orders from Asus and Quanta.

Sources at PC and notebook component makers indicated that Apple will launch its MacBook laptops using Intel's new 64-bit Merom CPU in September, with associated OEM makers, such as Asustek and Quanta Computer, expected to benefit from that, according to a Chinese-language Commercial Times report.