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Dell announces Latitude XT Tablet PC

Due Credit: TechRepublic
Dell has announced its foray into the Tablet PC segment with its Latitude XT Notebook PC. The Tablet PC is a small niche in the notebook market but Dell's entry is good news for customers as it means a reduction in the price of the systems with increased volumes.

There are several new technologies in the interfacing space that have come to focus lately. Apple's iPhone and the Surface PC demoed by Microsoft are indicators of the radical innovations waiting to happen in the UI space. Also, there has been news of Dell eyeing its own portable computing device in order to make the most of emerging expanding markets for personal computing devices.


The new Latitude XT is priced at $2,499 and does not exactly come cheap.

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December 11th 2007 @ 15:40

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Laptop for $249 from Zonbu

Due Credit: Techrepublic
Zonbu announced its Laptop offering that comes with a support subscription of $14.95 per month. The offering follows Zonbu's immensely popular mini desktop. The configurations are a treat for the price that the company is asking and also with the software and the 50 GB online storage, its worth a buy.

Zonbu Laptop
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December 4th 2007 @ 15:58

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Cover your Laptop with bear skin

Due Credit: Laptopstyle.com
If you want add some unique looks to your Laptop/notebook, or even for the sake of making it artistic Laptopstyle's designer's cover should be on the top of your list. This Xmas season they go far beyond traditional laptop cover, No seriously!
Desiner's Laptop Cover-1

Laptopstyle introduces Laptop cover: The Bear, which actually will make your laptop belongs to a bear, by covering your laptop with woolly bear like skin. Freaky but fascinating isn't it? Considering the description As furry as a bear can be, heavy soft fur feels like cover cost only US$25. There are two sizes available, Small -14 ,14.4 up to 15 Inches and BIG-15,15.4,17 inches. That should cover whatever laptop you have at your disposal.

So if you like to be a Tarzan boy with a bear friend, yet digital, this Bear cover is for you, or even you can consider this as Xmas gift item for someone who feels like that.
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December 13th 2006 @ 01:24

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Holiday Gadgets : HP iPaq rx1950

Due Credit: Shopperslane and Centre.com for prie lists
Holiday Gadgets
If you can satisfy your PDA hunger without Bluetooth and a little less memory HP iPaq rx1950 could be your ideal x-mas gadget pick. The thin and light HP iPaq rx1950 features integrated Wi-Fi and Windows Mobile 5, and it has outstanding battery life (which is rare in most of the PDA's).

HP iPaq rx1950 may not be the latest PDA on the market but it still one of the best feature rich PDA i have ever encountered compare to the price. HP spruces up its entry-level handheld line with the HP iPaq rx1950 model, a slim and light PDA that doesn't cut corners on performance or battery life, with class-leading results. Armed with the latest Windows Mobile 5 operating system, the rx1950 can be a pocket office on the road but skimps on a few features here and there, most notably Bluetooth. At $300, however, the rx1950 costs half that of high-end business PDAs, so if you're on a budget and you're OK with the lack of Bluetooth, then the HP iPaq rx1950 is a perfectly capable handheld


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December 7th 2006 @ 21:16

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Holiday Gadgets : BenQ JoyBook R55

Due Credit: PCquest Phil. for the test unit use
Holiday Gadget Special
As I said before this Holiday season, Gifts makes your wallet cry. To make that cry a little thinner find the right gifts which is economical as well as good quality. In search of holiday gift gadget today my finding is BenQ Joybook R55 laptop.

The Joybook R55 features a SATA 5400rpm Hard Disk Drive that offers higher transfer rates and better data security. Also equipped with Bluetooth v2.0 EDR, enhanced data transfer rate of 3Mbps and reduced power consumption is provided. With BenQ's new QDataTrove, you need only press the F10 key to initiate a thorough data backup. It also allows you an easy way of restoring the system's factory default settings and perform scheduled backups of system files. QDataTrove's thoughtful "Restore from Backup" feature lets you select any data you wish to retrieve


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December 6th 2006 @ 01:26

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Asus's dual treat for gamers

Remember last time I covered an story on Asus Lamborghini, well looks like Asus finally got tired of making laptops with Lamborghini badge, has unveiled its first ever machines for hardcore gamers with deep pockets.
Asus G1 Notebook
Asus G1 Notebook

Looking to compete Alienware's LAN-party invitations are the 15 inches G1 and 17 inches G2 packing Core 2 Duo processors, up to 160GB hard drives and up to two gig of RAM. Graphics are powered by either by Nvidia's latest GeForce Go 7700 with 512MB of memory, or ATI's 512MB Mobility Radeon X1700, two extremely capable performers


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November 14th 2006 @ 09:24

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Ride On ASUS-Lamborghini VX1

It’s not new that sports car craze motivated laptop’s design; we had seen Acer’s Ferrari series. Now Asus come up with another legend in sport’s car industry, Italian Lamborghini featured in its latest laptop series. ASUS-Lamborghini VX1 is an extreme and spectacular expression of the ASUS and Lamborghini spirit that, with the look alone, exudes power, speed, strength and beauty. ASUS-Lamborghini VX1 powered by Intel Centrino Duo Mobile Technology. The dual-core processing capabilities of the VX1 offers
ASUS-Lamborghini VX1
ASUS-Lamborghini VX1

desktop level computing performance such as faster processing and high quality video/ audio enjoyment while enabling high mobility and better productivity with smaller form factor and longer battery life. The 15" VX1, weighing less than most of the 14" notebooks, is a powerful work machine with superior mobility. These are just few to mention among its powerful bunch of features. Personally I am impressed by this, never expected this kind of powerful computing standard from ASUS. Not to mention the looks, when I hold my first test VX1, I was feeling like touching Lamborghini itself. As you can tell I am totally stoned by the looks and performance, let’s take pick what’s with this baby:-
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November 2nd 2006 @ 06:06

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Bruit force of Alienware mALX

Don’t say you never dreamed of a Notebook to die for. A lot of critics say Alienware is expansive, retarded systems, they prefer Dell or Acer. But problem is yes may be a decade ago, when they started Alienware may be was like that but now its sheer with power and glamour. Expense, I would say fairly expansive but no way they can say now Alienware less powerful than any system on the planet. Alienware is known to be gamer’s passion, why? 2 things Power and Graphics (looks is additional gift). Alienware Aurora mALX is a powerhouse introduced lately. Adding a product touch that will undoubtedly make it stand out in a crowd, the Aurora mALX also features exotically stylish, airbrushed custom paint artwork that boldly implies power and strength, while shifting color through light refraction. I haven’t seen any laptop with this kind of chic looks, have you? Ok let’s say looks doesn’t matter, so how about other 19" desktop replacement notebooks cap out at 100GB. The Aurora mALX desktop replacement busts through this barrier with dual HD’s with 400GB capacities. Does that satisfy you? No! Than how about powered by latest AMD 64 bit processor, the most powerful processor on the planet and dual 512MB GeForce Go 7900 GTX, the FIRST notebook to deliver 1GB of dedicated graphics memory. I am sure you even already made the owo! Sound by now. Yes mates that are just a few weaponry of mALX large armory. I can bet my little sail boat (well that’s all I have) that this baby will make you tired without even slugging. Let’s take peak on the fact sheet of mALX---

Alienware Aurora mALX
Alienware Aurora mALX

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October 25th 2006 @ 21:17

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Budget Laptop with performance: Lenovo 3000 V100

Well whole world’s media is focus towards ultra portable light Notebook/Laptop computer, but
Budget Laptops
does the entire consumer afford that? Since the high performance ultra portable pc’s cost no less than US $1.7k, if you want good performance with style. I have done a little survey on 100 net users around the world (off course I didn’t travel, the survey was limited to known people and contacts). 45 of them are full time student, 16 of them are part time student, 20 of them are full time professional, and 19 of them are either housewife or retired person. I was surprised that among all of them only 35% of them use laptops and only 11 of them have high end ultra portable high-performance notebooks. Do I even have to mention that none of them were student? One way or another all these 100 people are closely connected with IT industry, so you can’t say they don’t need high performance laptops. The reason they describe for not having Laptop is balance of cost and performance. Means high tech laptop cost a lot, but performance/power are not as high it can be in desktop at half price. They need power but, but like most of the general consumer have to budget their wallet. But since when we need mobility we really need laptop, that is the reason my quest for budget notebooks.

Lenovo 3000 V100 Silver
Lenovo 3000 V100 Silver

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October 25th 2006 @ 04:31

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Say goodbye to your harddisk!

Well the one we all have been waiting for, the hard drive less laptop. But didn’t came from Sony, came from the maker of NAND flash drive Samsung. Earlier this year Samsung announced in Korea they are planning to release their first NAND powered computer, and it’s already published in Korean Samsung site. The model is named Q30 SSD (Solid state disks), in few days the ultra portable model will Q1SSD will be also available to Korean consumers. The price for Q30SSD was posted KRW3.5 million (around $3.7K). No word or press release about lunching these models outside Korea.
Q-30SSD's Hard Drive
Solid State Disk (SSD) Drive

Solid state disks are NAND flash-based memory drives. This concept isn't entirely new. Digital cameras use flash memory to store pictures, as do many MP3 players to store songs. The main problem with flash-based drives is larger capacities are very expensive and they have limited write cycles. These issues are being overcome though and flash memory has several advantages over hard disk drives like lower power consumption, more durability, more compact size, less heat dissipation, quieter operation and faster speed. The SSD reads 300 percent faster (53MB/s) and writes 150 percent quicker (28MB/s) than normal hard drives. As a result, multiple application programs can operate simultaneously and large volumes of data can be edited and reproduced more efficiently. Microsoft Windows XP will boot up 25-50% faster on the SSD than on other drives. Moreover, the typical 1.8-inch hard disk drive weighs around 50 grams; whereas the SSD is 20 to 30 grams lighter, depending on the package type


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October 16th 2006 @ 20:07

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