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

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.

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

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

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

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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.

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.
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