In a marked deviation from their earlier Notebooks and desktops the Lenovo presented its new brightened-up range of notebooks and desktop PC’s. There were total of four products launched two in notebooks category and two series of desktop PC’s. All the products are slated for a Mid-December launch. The Y-series of notebooks have taken a complete makeover from the earlier notebooks by Lenovo. The Y-300 has a 13-inch widescreen LCD with NIVIDIA GeForce Go 7300 graphics card (Hmm…) a webcam that has the ability to recognize the owners face to log in. the notebooks weighs only 4.85 pounds. The Y-400 also flaunts the same design makeover as the above but has a 14-inch LCD with a flush mounted touchpad, a webcam and 2-watt subwoofers. The desktop range was also boosted with the introduction of Q-series lineup which will offer customers a webcam ATi Radeon X1300 graphics card with a Sonic GearHS555 headset. The range starts at $1,017. There are two options in monitors either you can buy 19-inch or 20-inch monitors. Similarly the H seriesof Desktop PC’s will provide cheap option for those who are tight on cash with price range starting from $699. The PC comes with a anti bacterial keyboard but there is not much info on its configuration. The trend of cheap pricing of PC’s and Notebooks seems to catching up in the industry as Dell has also announced AMD based cheap PC.
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The Gigabyte will be offering two series of notebooks in Japan the series have been named W251U and W551N. The W251U series will be a core 2 Duo laptop with Intel graphics card and a 14-inch WXGA display. This notebook has an 80 GB SATA hard disk and a 512MB RAM which can be boosted up to 2GB. The notebook is Bluetooth compatible and has 3945A/B/G Wi-Fi. The W251U comes with 1.3 Megapixel webcam and weighs only 1.9 kg. The other series W551N has a 15.1-inch display and in additions to all the above features of W251U it has a DL DVD burner and a GeForce 7400. The weight of this notebook is 2.8 kg. These will be available from next week on GeekStuff4U.
Korean company have produced an ugly duckling that what I can say. On look at the Korean firm Miu’s hybrid device what they lovingly call M*free HDPC (Hybrid Dual Portable computer) will tell you what an un-imaginative mind can do. Well this device is a Digital camera, web camera and MP3 player all rolled in one. It gives you the option of portable storage device and can be connected to computer through USB. It comes with Wi-Fi and VoIP software loaded and there buy gives you a little more connectivity options. It has two versions priced at KRW 700,000 and 800,000.
Designing aspect based on the popular Pavilion laptops HP seems ready with its new offering in the tablet PC arena Vista based tx1000. The tablet PC will have following specs to drool about: 1. 12.1-inch widescreen display 2. 5-in-1 card reader 3. stereo speakers 4. headphone jack 5. Wi-Fi 6. Omni-directional microphones 7. LightScribe DVD burner 8. Touch screen 9. Finger print reader & webcam Look out for this tablet when Vista is released if it is not released sooner.
S-XGen’s very own UMPC has been hovering around for a while but now it look that they are all set to unleash this in the market. The specs of this compact UMPC are: 1. Xscale 520 MHz processor 2. 20GB Hard disk drive 3. SDRAM of 256 MB 4. 4-inch screen with 480 x 270 resolution 5. Webcam 6. Connectivity through Wi-Fi, Ethernet, Bluetooth and tri-band GSM It has Windows CE 5.0 with Microsoft Office Suite and the folding keyboard makes it very portable and mobile friendly. You will have to shell out $1400 for purchasing this.
Voodoo the new acquired company of HP has come with their new offering in the laptop arena ‘Voodoo ENVY HW:201′ a gaming laptop. This 20.1-inch display laptop has AMD Turion 64X2 under its hood with the choice of having a GeForce Go 7950 GTX or Quadro FX 2500M graphic card with dedicated 512MB memory. It also supports SLI infra which means that users can choose two graphics card to work simultaneously. The two HDD’s which give the combined storage space of 320GB with all those mundane features like Wi-Fi and Bluetooth compatibility with webcam facility also. It will start shipping from 8th January but the price is still not known.
Adventurers require tough gadgets that can withstand anything and give them company in the most rugged terrains and beers. Keeping this in mind coming to give you company are Twinhead’s two rugged note books presented before the world in CES 2007. The DURABOOK D13RY and DURABOOK D14RY have Intel Core Duo and Core 2 Duo processors under their hood with casing of magnesium alloy and shock resistant design. The casing not only provides better survival odds for the notebook but also protects LCD and HDD and is 20 times stronger than ABS plastic casing. The spill resistant feature stops the spills and beer from reaching the super sensitive parts of the device. The TPM or Trusted platform Module provides best data security against the loss or theft of notebook. D13RY has a 13-incher WXGA TFT LCD screen with a 1.3-megapixel webcam. While D14RY gives you a 14-inch WXGA TFT LCD screen. Both notebooks are capable of passing the US militaries 810F standards and can survive the 29-inch drop on hard surfaces. There are three options in the HDD department either you can take a 60 GB HDD or go for the 80 or 100 GB version. Other features include Intel Graphics Media accelerator 950 with LAN, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi features. These are Vista ready notebooks but come pre-loaded with Windows XP. Sorry folks no info on price and availability as yet.
