Wednesday, 10 December 2008

ASUS Eee All-in-One Touchscreen PC pre-orders taken

The ASUS Eee All-in-One Touchscreen PC, aka the Eee Monitor, has gone up for pre-order with UK retailer Play.com. First confirmed back in June, with press shots following, the All-in-One
centers on a 15.6-inch touchscreen with a 1.6GHz Intel Atom CPU, 1GB of RAM and 160GB 5,400rpm hard-drive doing duty behind the scenes.




Connectivity includes WiFi b/g/n, gigabit ethernet, six USB 2.0 ports and microphone/line-in/line-out ports. There’s also a 1.3-megapixel webcam, multi-format memory card reader, and twin 4W speakers. Graphics use an integrated Intel chipset with a shared 128MB of memory, so you’re unlikely to be doing any serious gaming on this particular ASUS.

Running Windows XP Home, pre-orders are being taken now for £399.99 ($686). Release date is given as November 20th 2008, later than the initial September time-frame ASUS originally suggested.

5 Reasons to Choose a Notebook Over a Computer Desktop

Many of us are so used to working on a computer desktop that when it comes time to purchase a new computer, we don't consider other options. Today, computer notebooks - which were once called laptops - offer a number of advantages over a computer desktop. Here are just five reasons why you should take a second look at notebooks.

1. Mobility

You might be used to pulling up a chair to your computer, but it makes much more sense to pull your computer up to your chair. Laptops can certainly be used at your desk, but you also have the option of bringing them to the spot where you're most comfortable. Maybe you'd like to surf the Web in the evening out in the living room or catch up on your favorite blogs before bedtime. Notebooks with wireless connectivity can travel with you throughout your home, so you can check your email or do your Internet shopping anywhere.

Of course, notebooks also make sense for those who are on the go. Students can take laptops to class and to the library, while businesspeople can take them along while traveling. With WiFi so widely available, it even makes sense to have a notebook while on vacation. With the right notebook, it's easy to take photos with your digital camera, upload them, and email them to friends and family before you even get back home. Or you can use it to write a vacation blog and include those pictures from your digital camera.

2. Better Displays

The size and quality of computer notebook displays has improved so dramatically that there's little difference between laptops and a computer desktop. For example, you can get Apple's MacBook with a 13.3-inch LCD widescreen (1280 x 800 pixels), a 15.4-inch LCD widescreen (1440 x 900 pixels) or a 17-inch widescreen (1680 x 1050 pixels). Similarly, the Compaq Presario has a 15.4-inch display.

3. Lighter Weight

Just a few years ago, even the lightest notebook was a pain to lug around. Today, though, laptops are increasingly easy on the back. The MacBook is slightly over an inch thick and the Toshiba Portege weighs in at about four pounds. While that's still heavy compared to come of the new ultralight convertibles (Fujitsu's LifeBook U810 weighs only a pound and half), it's a significant improvement over the old seven-pound laptops.

4. Better Computing and Battery Power

Historically, two drawbacks of notebooks were their limited RAM, limited space on the hard drive, and short battery life. Times have changed, though, and laptops now have as much power under the hood as their computer desktop cousins. The MacBook, for example, has 1GB of memory (configurable up to 4 GB) and a hard drive that's configurable to 250GB. This means that your software will hum right along and you'll be able to zip through programs as quickly and as easily as you do on your desktop. Likewise, batteries in today's notebooks don't heat up and don't conk out.

5. More Features

In older laptops, the computer's size and weight limited the number and types of features available. Today, with smaller processors and other components, there's room to pack more features into notebooks. For example, the MacBook has a DVD player, built-in webcam, built-in wireless capability, two USB ports and a FireWire port, built-in microphone, and audio and digital input/output.

There are so many advantages to owning notebooks that, before you buy your next computer, it's worth your while to take one for a spin

Alienware Intro Area 51 M17X HD Gaming Notebook – Our Most Powerful Notebook Ever, Says Alienware

Alienware have announced what their press release bills as their ‘most powerful notebook ever’ in the form of their new Area 51 M17X Gaming Notebook which not only combines Intel’s Core 2 Extreme X9000 processor with dual Nvidia GeForce 8800M GTX GPU mounted in SLI configuration promising ‘unrivalled mobile DirectX 10 HD gaming’ but also comes with up to 1.5TB of storage capacity thanks to the Area 51 M17X’s 500GB HHD and optional dual 500GB Smart Bay drive configured in a RAID 0 array.


Frank Azor, Executive Vice-President for Alienware’s Product and Marketing Groups, announced the new Area 51 M17X stating; ‘We pride ourselves in designing elite systems for consumers who absolutely refuse to settle for second best, the Area-51 m17x is, by far, the most aggressive, most powerful notebook computer Alienware has ever built”.


Alienware Area 51 M17X HD Gaming Notebook Key Features:

NVIDIA SLI technology with dual NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX graphics cards to produce an unrivaled mobile DirectX 10 gaming experience.
Intel’s 45nm Core 2 Extreme X9000 mobile processors supporting maximum speed and responsiveness during intense battle sequences in users’ favourite games, crisp 3D rendering, flawless music encoding and other high-intensity tasks.
17” Wide Screen WUXGA 1920 x 1200 with Clearview (1200p HDTV resolution support)
Up to 7.1/5.1 Digital High-Definition Audio (8 Channel)
Up to 1TB of hard drive capacity configured in a RAID 0 array for storing massive entertainment collections, plus support for solid state drives and hybrid hard drives.
Smart Bay technology that allows users to swap out their optical drive for an additional 500GB hard drive, bringing the notebook’s storage capacity to 1.5TB.
The Alienware Command Center control panel, home to exclusive programs such as the AlienFX customizable lighting feature and the AlienFusion power management system.
Just made available via Alienware’s online store, pricing of Alienware’s new Area 51 M17X HD Gaming Notebook starts at $2,199 for the cheapest model on offer with a veritable host of options and component upgrades serving to escalate the price to somewhat coma inducing $6,500+.

Best Performance Laptop : Dell XPS M1730

The performance of this machine is simply amazing with the Core 2 Extreme X7900. It is very rare to find such a powerful CPU at a laptop, but Dell seems to know what they are doing here because the results are really good. Remember the standard Core 2 Duo mobile processor has a 35W TDP, but the X7900 got an amazing 44W. IT is also really easy to clock this processor, and you can clock it from 2,8 GHz to amazingly 3,4 GHz with no problems.

When clocked to 3,4 GHz the Dell XPS M1730 got 7868 score points on PCmark 05 and beat laptops like Alienware M7700 (AMD Athlon FX-60, Nvidia Go 7800GTX) with over 2000 points. As you see there is no reason at all why Dell XPX M1730 should not be the best performance laptop of 2007 with the amazing processor, Dual Nvidia GeForce 8700M-GT in SLI (256MB each), 2GB DDR and a high quality 17-inch screen.

Tuesday, 9 December 2008

Toshiba Qosmio

Well I've been looking around for a notebook with a good user rating. I'd like to take a brief moment to discuss the Toshiba Qosmio G35-AV600. Usually I don't go for the Toshiba brand to much because in my opinion they haven't branded themselves completely. I don't know much about there products basically. After all lack of marketing is the key to loosing sales.

However I came across this notebook and its a pretty good buy. I sent out emails to users in my orders category to see what they actually think about the product, and you know.. It actually isn't that bad.

the most common reaction is "Amazing". It has a sleek design, and Intel Core Duo processor, and weighs about 9.9 ounces.

It comes for the hefty price of $1439.

THE APPLE MACBOOK PRO

The Apple MacBook Pro - the collective mind is conditioned to perceive the combination of optimum functionality with sleek and stylish packaging as an improbability when it comes to portable computers and laptop PCs. Add to an intuitive modern piece of portable artistry a graphical user interface with unparalleled visual features, and the improbability turns into a straight up impossibility for most laptop enthusiasts within the portable computing populace. But this is the exact point in the technological spectrum of the world that the Apple MacBook Pro breaks barriers and stuns the world as yet another visual and technical portable masterpiece from Apple.

Bundled with the latest technology when it comes to processing power, the Apple MacBook Pro gives justice to the Intel Core 2 Duo processor when it comes to a sleek combination of functionality and style. The Intel Core 2 Duo is a processing chip that packs twice the punch you could get from a single core processor. This tiny chip can provide the Apple MacBook Pro users of the world more than 2.4GHz of processing power bundled with L2 cache features necessary to share the power between the Intel Cores whenever necessary together with 4MB of Smart Cache functionality.

Built for the purpose of graphical 3D and 2D viewing amongst its many uses, the Apple MacBook Pro can also act as a complete portable tool for your online and offline video viewing and editing needs. In addition, the Apple MacBook Pro can also provide you with a means to access state-of-the-art music viewing and editing functions while on the road that can only be found in a laptop Mac. After all, with the Apple MacBook Pro's support for 250GB digital data storage disks together with an 800MHz front-side bus compatibility feature that allows faster data processing, the Apple MacBook Pro's DDR2 memory features worth a blazing 667MHz of up to 4GB physical RAM can be seen as icing on a portable piece of modern laptop ingenuity that can only be the Apple MacBook Pro.


With the steady rise of 3d computer video games when it comes to overall visual quality and functionality, the Apple MacBook Pro assures that it will not be left behind with all the modern visual treats by incorporating the NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics controller on the core of the Apple MacBook Pro's graphical processing capabilities. With an option to enjoy downright larger than 15-inch visual quality through the Apple MacBook Pro versions that come with a power-efficient and mercury-free 17-inch display optionally packed with 1920-by-1200 pixel display features, all you would get is prime visual entertainment and functionality at its finest while on the road. Being packaged in a stylish casing that measures an inch thin and weighs 5.4 to 6.8 lbs., the AirPort Extreme 802.11n Wi-Fi device is built into the connectivity core of the Apple MacBook Pro laptop in order to serve its purpose as the final touches on the Apple MacBook Pro when it comes to wire-free online connectivity.

DELL XPS M1710 REVIEW FROM ITREVIEWS

The M1710 (N04XPS7) is the bigger brother of the M1210 and, just like its smaller sibling, it's very different in appearance to the rest of the Dell laptop range. It's powerful, too; in fact it's one of the most powerful notebooks currently available. The XPS M1710 has been around for a while but our review sample, the flagship model of the range, is one of the latest with a Blu-Ray writeable drive fitted as standard.

The M1710 comes in two colours - Metallic Black (our review sample) or Formula Red - and, as is becoming for a member of the XPS clan, enough lights to shame a Christmas tree. The design of the notebook is what you could call "funky industrial" with the metallic black lid inlay neatly set off by the metallic silver surround. It's a tough beast as well, with a magnesium alloy chassis, steel lid hinges and thick plastic palm wrests, but weighing in at 5.5kg you won't want to be carrying it around much anyway.

As the flagship model, our M1710 came powered by an Intel Core 2 Duo T7600 CPU which is clocked at 2.33GHz, but if you want to save some money, slower processor options are available.

Backing up the CPU is 1GB of PC2-667 (333MHz) DDR2 memory in the form of two modules, but the two DIMM slots will accept up to a maximum of 4GB of memory, so as you might expect the M1710's performance should be pretty good to say the least. That's borne out by its PCMark 05 overall score of 5,900 which puts it well up with most upper-mid-range desktops and some high-end systems too.

On the other hand, battery life isn't stunning, but as the M1710 will spend most of its life attached to the mains that's pretty academic anyway. We managed to get about two and a half hours of life under test conditions with all battery saving measures turned off.

Overall performance is one thing, but what the M1710 is really about is gaming and the graphics performance is nothing short of stunning. The graphics are powered by an Nvidia GeForce GO 7950 GTX GPU backed by 512MB of GDDR3 memory, giving the M1710 a stunning 3DMark score of 9,035 at 1,024 by 768 pixels and, more importantly for gamers, an average frame rate score in F.E.A.R of 103fps at the same resolution with all game details set to maximum.

Even at the screen's native resolution (1,920 x 1,200) you get an average frame rate of 40fps, which you can increase by turning the game details down a notch or to, getting a more playable figure. The GO 7950 GTX also provides a VGA and a DVI out connector so you can hook up the M1710 to either an analogue or digital external monitor.

The screen is really good, too; a 17-inch WUXGA widescreen with the aforementioned 1,920 x 1,200 pixel native resolution and Dell's TrueLife glossy coating which is claimed to allow bolder colours and greater contrast than a standard coating.

You may be surprised by the smallish size of the Dell's keyboard given the size of the laptop itself, but the reason for giving so much space to rest your palms and part of your wrist is because primarily the M1710 is a gaming notebook, so all the keys used by gamers can be comfortably used for long periods. But this doesn't diminish the overall ease of use of the excellent keyboard and touchpad.

As the M1710 comes with Vista Home Premium we gave the Vista benchmark a spin and got a score of 5.9 and 5.8 for the graphics and gaming graphics respectively, but because of a slowish hard drive and just the one gig of memory, the overall Vista score is a fairly average 4.3.

Storage comes in the form of a 120GB, 5,400rpm Hitachi drive but if you want faster transfer rates, a 7,200rpm drive is an alternative you can choose when you configure your M1710. Also provided are an Express Card slot and a 5-in-1 Card Reader. Joining these on the right-hand side of the chassis are two audio ports and a 4-pin FireWire port. The left-hand side holds the Blu-Ray drive and two USB 2.0 ports.

The rear of the chassis has all the other ports, and in addition to the monitor outputs you also get four more USB 2.0 ports, S-Video out, LAN and modem ports (connected to integrated Gigabit Ethernet and V.90 controllers respectively). You get 802.11a/b/g Wireless as well.

"What about all the lights?", I hear you cry. Oh well, you had to ask. The two XPS logo cut-outs in the lid, the speaker grilles, the fan grilles and the logo cut-out in the touchpad are all back-lit by LEDs. But it doesn't end there: with the exception of the mouse pad all the colours can be changed - with what Dell calls the XPS LightFX - and you have a palette of 16 colours to choose from. These can be changed easily in the BIOS or by the harder-to-find 'gaming' tab of the Dell Quickset utility in the program menu.

As with all the XPS range you get special treatment for spending all that hard-earned cash, in the shape of two years on-site warranty and the special, dedicated, XPS 24 free phone technical support.

Lenovo to auction off Olympic Torch-themed notebook PCs for global charities

Celebrating the one-year-out mark for the Beijing 2008 Olympics, Lenovo yesterday announced plans for a major philanthropic auction, with limited-edition notebook computers inspired by their 2008 Olympic Torch on offer.


From February 8th next year, at the six-month mark, week-long back-to-back auctions for these "Cloud of Promise" notebook PCs will begin, concluding just prior to the start of the Games. Several of the PCs will be autographed by athletes.


All proceeds from the auctions will go to the Lenovo Hope Fund charities, including Right to Play, and other charities and organisations bringing sports to communities of children.

Athletes supporting the initiative include:
* Gale Emms, badminton, Great Britain, 2004 Olympic silver medalist
* Libby Lenton, swimming, Australia, 2004 Olympic gold and bronze medalist
* Eamon Sullivan, swimming, Australia, 2004 Olympian
* Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh, beach volleyball, United States, 2004 Olympic gold medalists
* Adam van Koeveden, canoe/kayak, Canada, 2004 Olympic gold and bronze medalist
* Liu Xiang, track and field, China, 2004 Olympic gold medalist

Sony adds artwork to laptops

Just in case the usual laptop custom design options--usually a bold primary color on the lid, or maybe a set of flaming skull stickers--aren't doing it for you anymore, the creative minds at Sony have a new way to support computer users' self-expression. The company has commissioned artist Maya Hayuk, a painter whose work has been seen on several album covers and an Absolut ad campaign, to create new designs for Vaio laptops.


The result was unveiled Tuesday night by Sony, in the form of two limited-edition 15.4-inch Sony Vaio FZ series laptops, with the new designs on the back of the lid.

The flowery "Grow" design and the angular "Never Stop" are both available only through SonyStyle retail stores and the SonyStyle Web site, starting at around $2,500. The systems also include matching desktop wallpaper, a video clip of the artist discussing her work, and a signed certificate of authenticity

Fujitsu Lifebook A1110 Laptop

Meet Lifebook A1110, the first notebook with swappable lid. Arrive with a 15.4-inch screen, Its lid is changeable lid and available with green mod labyrinth, bright pink design with butterflies, or a cool blue Victorian print.Running Windows Vista Home Premium OS, Lifebook A1110 is powered by an Intel Core 2 Duo P7350 or T5800 processor, up to 4GB of DDR2 RAM, up to 320GB HDD, and a DVD burner.


Comes with a 6-cell battery, A1110 has $799 price tag.

OLED display for laptops soon?

At the moment it is very likely, that Samsung will get laptops with OLED display on the market in 2009. The first design study looks very promising.


The OLED technology (we reported last year) should now also arrive soon in laptop displays. Samsung SDI, the display division of Samsung, presented mid-May a notebook concept study with built in AMOLED (active matrix organic light emitting diode) display. The concept laptop impresses with its ultra slim design, touch keypad and a mysterious second display on the backside.

For 2009 Samsung SDI announced the first 14 and 15.4 inch laptop with OLED display.

Acer Ferrari 3200 64-bit AMD Powered Notebook





















Acer has announced another Ferrari Notebook, bright red, 64 bit AMD Athlon 3000+ processor and an ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 128MB DDR graphics card. Most importantly it comes loaded with 802.11g, USB and Firewire ports, Bluetooth and S-Video out.

Acer America Puts the Pedal to the Metal with Newest Ferrari Notebook

Ferrari 3400 Combines 64-Bit Power and Optional Docking Station in the Newest Addition to the Ferrari Line of Laptops

Acer America Corpration, one of the leading worldwide suppliers of IT solutions, announced the newest addition to the Ferrari line of notebooks, the Ferrari 3400. This notebook follows the tradition of elegance, design and cutting-edge technology that, over the past year, has been the hallmark of the synergies between Acer and Ferrari, two companies renowned for their advanced research and constant commitment to innovation. The Ferrari 3400 is based on the latest Mobile AMD Athlon 64 processor 3000+ for thin and light notebooks, and harnesses AMD's exclusive AMD64 technology.

"In most markets a high performance exclusive product that is accessible to mainstream consumers is virtually impossible to create," said Rob Enderle, Principal Analyst for the Enderle Group. "Acer, AMD and Ferrari continue to showcase that in the laptop market this unique combination, while far from common, is possible. This is what makes the Ferrari 3400 such a fantastic system and one of my own personal favorite laptop products."

The Ferrari 3400 is another notebook designed by Acer to feature the world's most advanced components in a captivatingly unique design. The 64-bit architecture delivers leading-edge power and provides a taste of the performance gains promised by future 64-bit applications. In addition, the AMD PowerNow! technology extends system battery life while HyperTransport technology radically improves overall performance. This newest Ferrari notebook from Acer also features an optional port replicator for increased efficiencies and suitability in corporate environments.

Unrivaled Multimedia Power

The Ferrari 3400 from Acer is an elegant, slim and lightweight chassis in grey and Ferrari red encases the most advanced technology available for today's mobile users. Acer's newest notebook is a full-featured, thin and light notebook with a brilliant, 200nit 15" SXGA+ (1400 x 1050) TFT display, 512MB of DDR333 SDRAM upgradeable to 2GB system memory and an ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9700 graphics card with 128MB DDR video memory. In addition to wireless 802.11g, the Ferrari 3400 offers four USB 2.0 ports, a FireWire (IEEE 1394) port, FIR (fast infrared), Giga LAN connection, 56K V.92 modem, S-video output and Bluetooth support.

This newest Acer notebook incorporates up to a 80GB ATA/100 removable hard drive, slot-loading DVD Super-Multi (DVD+/-RW, - RAM) optical drive and 4-in-1-card reader for optional MultiMediaCard (MMC), Secure Digital (SD) card, SmartMedia card or Memory Stick. A high-capacity Li-ion battery delivers up to four hours of battery life. Security is made possible by AMD's Enhanced Virus Protection feature that is enabled by Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2.

Preloaded with Microsoft Windows XP Pro and weighing just 6.5 pounds, the Ferrari 3400 is unlike anything else on the market -- designed and built to stand out and to provide unmatched performance. The Ferrari 3400 is the achievement of the commitment to research and leadership of two companies from entirely different markets, inextricably linked by the constant and continuous improvements of their products.

Pricing

The Ferrari 3400 is available through Acer authorized resellers and retail outlets throughout North America starting at approximately $2299.

Fujitsu Lifebook A6220 Laptop

















Fujitsu announcing its Lifebook A6220 laptop.Comes with a 15.4-inch screen, Toshiba Lifebook A6220 sport Intel Centrino 2 processor technology. Running Windows Vista Home Premium OS, Lifebook A6220 is powered by Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 or P8600 processor, up to 4GB of DDR3 memory and up to 320 GB HDD . Its optical drive is either a DVD burner, Blu-Ray Combo drive, or Blu-Ray burner.

This Fujitsu Lifebook laptop also packed with webcam, LAN, Wifi, fingerprint reader as well as lots of ports and slots.Comes with an 8-cell battery, Toshiba Lifebook A6220 capable to be operated up to 3 hours between charges.. Its price start from $1,299.

Lenovo Thinkpad X300



Lenovo's amazing new ThinkPad X300 ultraportable notebook is the thinnest ThinkPad ever – less than 0.73'at its thinnest. It's light, too, starting at just 2.93 lb.

But the X300 is more than ultra-thin and ultra-light. It's ultra-functional, too, thanks to available performance and convenience features like these:

Integrated DVD burner - Hard to find in such a thin system
Extended-life batteries – Get up to 10 hours unplugged
Easy connectivity – Advanced wireless options plus Gigabit Ethernet
Convenience – 3 USB ports, microphone/headphone ports and more

Advanced components on the X300 include solid state storage drives (with no moving parts, they consume less power and are considered less likely to break down than traditional hard drives). The X300 also offers several wireless connectivity options including Wireless USB (UWB) and a Wireless WAN option that utilizes native GPS functionality built into the system. Style-wise, the X300 is closer to the size of an actual paper notebook than a ThinkPad notebook has ever been. And it offers numerous design flourishes including a glossy bottom bezel, select illuminated buttons, and – for the first time in X Series – an integrated camera option and stereo speakers.

In addition, ThinkPad X300 is the first Lenovo notebook rated EPEAT Gold for low energy use and minimal impact on the environment. It also meets the European Union's Reduction of Hazardous Substances standards. And it is Energy Star 4.0 qualified.

The X300 uses 25% less energy than previous X Series models.

Designer Notebook



How to motivate to purchase a notebook? Some years ago simple by more highly demanded performance. Today where performance stagnates by special design.
Here from Tulip an Ego Lifestylle notebook with round design.

Lenovo Released new Ultrathin Laptop : ThinkPad X300


Lenovo released new thin laptop namely ThinkPad X300. This Laptop will be positioned as MacBook Air Apple's rival.

This laptop has weight only 2.93 pon, Lenovo claims it has more feature than Macbook Air. ThinkPad X300 has 3 USB drive, Optical drive, ultra thin DVD burner and a DVD-RW drive. As a comparison, Macbook Air has only one USB drive and no optical drive.

Tom Ribble, Product Marketing Director of ThinkPad Lenovo said that the laptop has a lithium polimer battery for long life use, its better than standard lithium ion battery.
ThinkPad featured with Wimax, Prosessor Intel Core 2 Duo SL7100 LV low-voltage chip and it claimed cost less 25% than other thinkPad before.
ThinkPad sold US$ 2.799. please visit Lenovo site for more detail.
Below I write the complete specification of ThinkPad X300 :
  • Processor: 1.20GHz Intel Core 2 Duo L7100 (800Mhz FSB, 4MB Cache)
  • Graphics: Intel X3100
  • Screen: 13.3-inch WXGA+ (1440 x 900, 300 nit) LED backlit display
  • Memory: 2GB (up to 4GB configurable)
  • Storage: 64GB SSD
  • Optical Drive: Ultra-thin DVD Burner
  • Wireless and Communications: Intel 4965AGN (802.11 a/b/g/n wi-fi), BlueTooth 2.0 EDR, Intel UWB, GPS, Verizon WWAN (EV-DO)
  • Battery: 6-cell Li-Ion extended life battery
  • Ports: 3 USB 2.0 ports, Monitor out port, AC adapter, headphone/line-out, microphone/line-in, Gigabit Ethernet
  • Dimensions: 12.4" x 9.1" x 0.73" - 0.92"
  • Weight: from 2.93lbs with 3-cell battery and no optical drive to 3.32lbs with 6-cell battery and DVD Burner in
  • Port Replicator: Via USB
  • Input: Full sized keyboard, trackpoint navigation, touchpad, fingerprint reader
  • Operating System: Windows XP or Windows Vista (in various flavors)
  • Other Features: Integrated web camera
  • Warranty: 1-year

Toshiba X 300 touts hi-def laptop trio



Toshiba has dipped its toes into the mobile HD market, with the launch of three Qosmio laptops equipped with the manufacturer’s dedicated HD content processor.

Toshiba's Qosmio X300: comes with a 17in screen and 'all the latest technology'

Although the manufacturer’s not yet willing to release the full specifications of each machine, it’s at least positioned the gaming -oriented X300 as the trio’s daddy.

The machine has an LCD cover decorated with a “Fire Shark” theme, which makes it look as though flames have gripped the machine. This red theme continues around the keyboard, with red LED illumination used to highlight the multimedia bar, touchpad and integrated tweeter speakers.

A Toshiba spokeswomen told Register Hardware that the X300 is equipped “with all the latest technology,” but so far the firm’s only been willing to state that this includes an Intel Core 2 Duo Extreme CPU, twin hard drives and Nvidia GDDR3 SLI graphics.

The G50 is Toshiba’s mid-range Qosmio machine, whilst the F50 is its entry-level model. Both machines come with a 640GB hard drive and, although the basic amount of memory isn’t stated, we know each has a “system memory expandable up to 8GB”.

One thing’s for sure though, all three will be equipped with Toshiba’s Quad Core HD processor - aka the SpursEngine. The processor’s designed to take the pressure off the main CPU by handling all HD content. Just not on batteries...

None of the machines come equipped with a Blu-ray drive – did you really expect they would be? – all standard-definition upscaling is done by the Quad Core HD. Downloaded HD content is handled by the chip too.

Each machine also has a webcam built into the inner of the lid, which allows films to be controlled with gestures, like a flick of your finger, instead of fumbling around for a remote.

Official prices for either three of the Qosmio laptops haven’t been given out yet, but the F50 and G50 will go on sale in UK in Q3.

General

Display 17" widescreen (1440x900)
Dimensions 399 x 288 x 30/40 mm (15.7 x 11.3 x 1.2/1.6 inches)
Weight 3.6 Kg (7.9 lb)
OS Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium
Mainboard Chipset Mobile Intel PM45 Express
Platform Intel Centrino 2
CPU Intel Core 2 Duo T9400 - 2,533 GHz - 6 MB - FSB 1066 MHz
Memory 4096 MB DDR3 SDRAM 1066 MHz
Main Storage 250 GB 5400 RPM
Graphic Card NVidia GeForce 9800M GTX 1024 MB
Optical Drive CD CD-R / CD-RW
DVD DVD±RW (±R DL)

Interfaces USB 4
FireWire 400 1
eSATA Yes
VGA Yes
HDMI Yes
S-Video Out Yes
RJ11 Yes
RJ45 Yes
ExpressCard 1 x ExpressCard/54

MSI PR200 YA Fashion Color Notebook Edition

MSI as a company which is famous produce motherboard computer now unveiled the new notebook fashion colors called MSI PR200 YA Edition. The PR200 YA Edition will provide an invigorating and fresh new way to compute.


Coming in a number of lively and vivid colors (Denim Blue, Coral Pink, and WASABI Green); users will stand out from the crowd and express their own individual flair. Measuring in at 30 cm in length and 23cm in width, along with a weight of 1.8 kg (including battery), PR200 YA Edition is very portable.

They introduce a new technology called ACV technology which gives you the most detailed and intricate images, resulting in high saturation and high definition quality for a luxurious visual sensation that’s easy on the eyes. Even after long periods in front of the PR200 YA Edition, your eyes won’t feel uncomfortable.

Friday, 28 November 2008

Acer Aspire One A110X Black Edition

Acer Aspire One A110X Black Edition

Acer Aspire One A110X Black Edition

Acer launches in Germany the Aspire One A110X Black Edition that comes with Piano Black finish. The A110X is basically the same as the A150 we have seen before.

It is powered by Intel’s Atom N270 1.6GHz processor, 1GB of RAM, 16GB SSD. Aspire One A110X Black features a 8.9-inch LED backlit LCD display, WiFi, Crystal Eye webcam, and a multi card reader.

Acer Aspire One A110X Black Edition is now available in Germany for about Euro 400.

HP Mini 100 Hack - How to Access 3G with your Mini 1000

HP Mini 100 Hack - How to Access 3G with your Mini 1000

HP Mini 100 Hack - How to Access 3G with your Mini 1000

The folks over at Engadget are reporting that the new HP Mini 1000 netbook will be sporting 3G network support come December. The 3G network, made famous as the network behind AT&T’s Apple iPhone, has been rumored for laptops for some time now. Apparently, if you are the happy owner of one of the latest Mini 1000’s, you can hack the machine with a little help from an HP driver so that it can access the network right now. The full hack tutorial is over at the Pocketables forum.

Acer Aspire 6930G Review and Specs

Acer Aspire 6930G Review and Specs

Acer Aspire 6930G Review and Specs
Acer Aspire 6930G Review and Specs

The $1000 Acer Aspire 6930G is a great candidate for a home media machine. Offering an attractive design for an Acer laptop and combining some pretty stellar specs for the price point. The 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor will keep you app switching and the 16″ display and the Nvidia GeForce 9600M will allow for some minor gaming and great movie watching. Even without the Blu-Ray drive, this litlte laptop is powerful enough to get you through for a few more years. A little heavy at 7.2 pounds, the 6930G is a true laptop, so you can expect the full package here. Overall, at under $1000, you won’t beat the Acer for a simple home media machiene. Sure, there are better laptops out there. But this system is ready to go for a good price.

If you’re eying it, go ahead and buy.
  • Operating System: Microsoft Windows Vista Home
  • Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T5800
  • Processor Speed: 2 GHz
  • RAM: 4 GB
  • Weight: 7.2 lbs.
  • Display Size: 16 inches
  • Graphics: Nvidia GeForce 9600M
  • Storage Capacity: 320 GB
  • Networking Options: 802.11 a/g/n
  • Primary Optical Drive: DVD+/-RW DL
, acer laptop, Acer Laptops, attractive design, Good Laptops, intel core 2, intel core 2 duo, intel core 2 duo processor, Laptop Review, laptop specs, laptops, microsoft windows vista, nvidia, nvidia geforce, processor in

Toshiba Portege M800, For Carrier Woman

Toshiba Portege M800, For Carrier Woman
SURVEY last conducted InfoKomputer magazine shows 90% of the readers are men. Therefore, this article is intended to more than 10% of womanhood, or that both men and interested partner to buy a new notebook.

Toshiba Portege M800, For Carrier Woman
Not anything. Parties that we review this time is the Toshiba Portege M300 notebook covered the pink of the "girl's." The same as the version Satellite M300 that we months ago, the notebook chassis is made through technology Fusion Finish to generate the surface of the glossy. So is pink, too glossy; goodness how you happiness?

The same as the previous generation, this is the Portege M300 notebook is for your mobile. This can be seen from the size of the screen size of 13.3 "and weight about 2 kg; comfortable enough to take a trip. However, as we recently accustomed to 13.3 notebook "the thin (such as the Macbook Air or Lenovo X300), the M300 thickness reached 4 cm feels too thick.

Perhaps because they intended to travel a lot, this notebook is equipped with facilities fingerprint scanner for security reasons. 150GB hard drive is also equipped with technology that shakes reducer in the data remains protected when the notebook is dropped. Other facilities available are Wi-Fi Draft-N, Bluetooth, 1.3 MP webcam, and DVD Multi format.

Behind the feminine color, Portege M300 components that possess strong enough. Series PPM80L-02Y013 that our test is, for example, given the processor Intel Core 2 Duo T8300 (2.38 GHz), which assisted DDR2-800 memory capacity of 1GB. Unfortunately graphic functions carried onboard Intel X3100 chip, so that less than maximum application to run gaming heavyweight. Even if the Macbook Air that use processors weaker, its 3D performance is still behind (see table of the test results).

At the top of the keyboard, notebook worth U.S. $ 1,399 to provide this control panel for multimedia. However, instead of using a key, the control panel is a touch sensor equipped with lights. This makes the operation of the panel is not disrupted even though we operate it in the darkness.

When we try to play the movie, one of the advantages we note is the quality of the speakers above the average. Using the speaker harman / kardon, his voice sounded clear and crispy, although a minimal bass boom. Screen also good quality, although the viewing angle, it looks rather limited.
***