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That is why, I love Engadget, and obviously it deserves our love as it has all the latest and greatest news, views and blogs. Today also it has come first with the details of the new successor from the Raon Digital Vega, the Everun, which has just been rolled out, once again with a unique approach to design, which is a out of the ordinary keyboard that makes it look as if some sort of fancy medical or military device. Anyway the rumor is fully rife and I too have confirmed its existence on the Internet, so don’t get confused. With a name like that, the Everun is making a battery life claim: 7 hours, in actual fact, which is almost double several of its rivals. And I think this has been made possible, conceivably, by picking of a slow and low-power Geode 600MHz CPU. Apart from all that it features hard-drive and flash-based options and is consisted with a 4.8″ 800×480 screen, WiFi, Bluetooth and built-in HSDPA cellular networking. It weighs 1.1 lbs (500g). No word on its pricing but is most likely to be delivered in middle of July. Now let’s take a look at some of its great specs: (1) 7 hours of battery life with the standard battery. (2) LX900-based (600Mhz AMD Geode) (3) 500g (with standard battery) (4) 4.8″ 800×480 screen (Touch) (5) 170mm x 25mm x 83mm (6) Full QWERTY keypad (7) HDD and SSD options (8) HSDPA integrated (9) Wifi and BT2.0 Image Read

Targa Computers recently rolled out a high-end 17-inch laptop, the Raptor-60, which is built-in with your choice of Core 2 Duo processor, 965 chipset, max 4GB RAM, Nvidia GeForcegraphics card with 512MB memory, up to 3 SATA hard drives utilizing RAID 0,1,or 5 totaling 750GB, Blu-ray, wireless a/b/g, Bluetooth and Vista. The top selling point of Raptor-60 is its three SATA hard drives, which can be configured according to your choice of JBOD, or RAID 0, 1 or 5 configurations, providing you with a totality of 750GB of hard drive space. All Targa systems are said to be consisted with the high quality. The lowest version of this machine goes for $2,345. Read

Fortunate for Akihabara News because they have passed their three days with the Fujitsu FMV-U8240 and fell in love with the majority of the characteristics on this ultra portable PC. They claimed to have made out that the Fujitsu FMV-U8240 in actual fact stood out with the CPU, performance, weight and LED keyboard however the screen rotation and touch screen instead of making, mar the device. Though they preferred the FMV-U8240 on the whole they also kept on saying that it did not pile up the same as the Sony Vaio UX series portable PC. Battery life is a somewhat below par 2.5 to 3.5 hours of real world usage. Besides the reviewer had tribulations with the swivel screen and the touchscreen: it is expected that these are pre-production tribulations. And at $1,190-$1,360, a piece, which is hinging on configuration, would be hoped so either. If still you are not satisfied with the writ-up above, below is the link that will land you to the full review of the Fujitsu FMV-U8240 and nice High definition videos of the device. Image Read

What are they going to install in notebook PCs next? At Intel’s recent Developer Forum conference in Beijing, the company made public to work on quad-core processing to go. Scheduled to be released in 2008, the quad-core mobile processor has specifically been brought about to aim at high-level gaming and mobile PCs, where users will be allowed to trade battery life for increased performance. While the majority of demanding users as gamers and those doing video editing at all times yearn for augmented processing power, this chip is not going to be in standard business notebooks for a short time. Vice president and general manager of Intel’s mobile platform group, Mooly Eden, was quoted as saying, You’ll see it at the high end, but I don’t see it running so fast into the mainstream because I don’t believe there will be enough threaded applications that will justify the trade-offs. (Multithreaded applications allow several parts of software code to be executed simultaneously, taking advantage of multiple processing cores.)” Read

Apparently, we might see a new Dell ultraportable anytime soon. The specs and the looks of the new XPS m1330 are fairly impressive. The 13.3-inch lappy comes equipped with an optional LED backlit LCD boasting a brightness of 300cd/m2. Other salient features include Core 2 Duo processors of up to 2.4GHz, Santa Rosa chip, up to 4GB DDR2 SDRAM. You can either opt for a 32GB SSD drive or a 250GB HDD. Ethernet, 802.11a, a/g/ n and Bluetooth inclusion takes care of the connectivity issues. Other on-board specs include a slot-loading DVD burner, an integrated 2MP webcam, HDMI and VGA connectors, a 128MB GeForce Go 8400M GS card and a biometric scanner. The machine will weigh 4 pounds. That’s a bit bulky to sport the word ‘ultra portable.

Eurocom is geared up to introduce its new gaming laptop model called Phantom D900C with modified 17 inches wide screen. This new gaming laptop comes equipped with Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 ‘Kentsfield’ 2.4GHz, 1066MHz, 8MB L2 cache with four CPU cores (high end desktop computer CPU) and for graphic cards it offers you GeForce Go 8700 and Quadro FX3500 dedicated video cards. The system is also designed for desktop PCs and is built on Intel’s G965 chipset. It also offers up to three 2.5-inch hard drives with RAID 0/1/5 capability and a maximum of 4GB system memory. It weighs approximately 11.9lbs and also offers UPS (uninterruptible power supply) battery. But no info about price and availability. Via: Slashgear

If you want to be rough and tumble with a Santa Rosa-based Toughbook, here we have the latest CF-52 from Panasonic in the US, with latest specs and features. There are two base configs (optimized for $2500 and standard for $1650), which feature: a magnesium alloy chassis and a shock-mounted screen. It is tested to resist drops of up to 2.5 feet on all six sides, whereas its hard drive is tested to resist a drop of 3 feet. The Toughbook CF-52 is also included with a spill-proof keyboard. For an expected street price of $1,649, the standard CF-52 configuration claims to provide Intel Core 2 Duo T7100 processor at 1.8GHz, the GM956 chipset with built-in X3100 graphics, 1366 x 768 widescreen resolution, a 1GB of DDR2 system memory (max. 2GB+2GB), and an 80GB SATA hard drive. The “optimized configuration” with the price tag of $2,499 consists of Core 2 Duo T7300 at 2GHz, PM965 chipset, the dedicated AMD ATI X2300 graphics empowering 1920 1200 widescreen display, also a 1GB RAM, and an 120GB SATA HDD. Read

Sometime back I talked about thinnest-ever 12.1-inch Portege R500 laptop from Toshiba. And now I have Tecra M8 from the same company to talk about. The writ-up at engadget.com reveals that if the earlier released Portege R500 laptop was a little small for you, the latest and greatest Tecra M8 is perfectly suited for you, as it is integrated with a 13.3-inch widescreen display into a slightly heftier package (4.5 pounds). The engadget.com also reveals that besides that bump up in size, you are provided with a 1.8GHz T7100 Core 2 Duo processor, Intel’s GM965 Express chipset, 1GB of RAM, a 120GB hard drive, a DVD SuperMulti drive, Intel Turbo Memory, 802.11n WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0, and an built-in 1.3 megapixel webcam, amongst other sports. Build-to-order models is also said to be in fact available in the in the long run, however if you yearn for one now it seems that you may clear up for the default configuration, which will hold you up for $1,399. Image Read

Toshiba made use of Taiwan’s Computex expo recently to make public the Portege R500, claiming it one of the most portable comprehensive notebooks ever. The system is one of the slimmest ever to comprise an optical drive, measuring 0.77 inches at its thinnest due to an ultra-thin DVD rewriter and upgrading in slimming down the internal components; this comes with no compromising power. The company also makes a note of that the utilization of a 64GB solid-state hard drive option — also a first for notebooks — brings the weight down to as little as 1.86 pounds with each characteristic untouched. The 12-inch widescreen additional stands for a break-through by making use of a transreflective LCDbattery life. Hitting Japan as the Dyna-Book SS RX1, the North American Portege R500 will be shipped in two models. A $1,999 base version features a 1.2GHz ultra-low voltage Core 2 Duo The DynaBook version of the notebook is going to get to stores first, hitting Japan on June 22nd. North American purchasers will get the system in July, 1GB of memory, a 120GB conventional hard disk, and 802.11n Wi-Fi support making use of Windows XP Professional; a 2nd version at $2,149 is going to be rolled out with identical hardware but utilize Vista Business. A retail version of the XP system will also get its way to stores. Image Read

Looking for UMPC! Then simply go for the easy-to-carry Amtek. Small size is one of its major highlights. Recently, at Computex the U560 prototype has been displayed. It was simply outstanding and eye-catching. This flip-up UMPC features a full Side-kick, such as QWERTY which is installed under the closed screen. Other key features include a 1.3-megpaixel camera, 3600mAh battery. It also runs Windows Vista. In accordance with version, processor varies. For Instance, it has both the Intel 600MHz and 800Mhz processor. So, what are you waiting for? Just go ahead and buy it! This amazing UMPC would surely make your gadget’s collection worthwhile! Via:gizmodo