Yes, it’s a Wii laptop. Ben Heckendorn claims his new Wii lappy to be one of his more ‘mechanical’ looking designs. He will be very soon writing the ‘How-To’ of this Wii laptop. Anyway, The laptop is equipped with a 7-inch diagonal 16:9 widescreen LCD, Gamecube controller port, integaretd short range Sensor Bar, Stereo sound, built-in power supply, compartment for power cord, and is packed in a size of 8.5 x 7.7 x 2-inches. I will be back with more on this Wii laptop. More pics after the jump.
Uber-rich only please! If the 120 pieces of Austrian crystals embedded to the MSI’s M677 laptop’s lid seem less to you, MSI has added many more this time. Company has now blinged the lappy both from exteriors and interiors too. You will find Swarovski crystals on the touchpad too. The shimmering M677 packs an AMD Turion 64 X2 processor, up to 2GB of memory, 5400rpm hard drive and a DVD burner. The MSI crystal collection laptops come in 15.4″ AMD and 13.3″ Intel displays. Now, you will ask the price. I simply have no idea. But, it will certainly pick on your pockets.
So MacFans, you have yet another reasons to smile since the upcoming MacBook Pros will come rocking more multihued displays with the new backlight technology. Now, the MacBook Pros will swing from cold cathode fluorescent backlights (CCFLs) to LED backlights. The sources claim that Apple will integrate the LED technology in its 15-incher only that are slated to ship in Q2 of 2007. But, the 17-inchers and the 13-inchers are still under consideration. Though LED technology is costlier than the CCFLs, it is more proficient in offering increased color saturation and even distribution of light across the display. A backlight solutions provider hopes the LED based MacBook Pros to run cooler, save on power and will last longer than the CCFL based machines. Slated this spring, the LED-lit displays will also deliver a more bright canvas for the various software user interface enhancements and animation techniques that will be incorporated with Mac OS X Leopard. Moreover, Apple has laid emphasis on breakthroughs for the new MacBook Pro line that will signal an out-and-out about-face in the company’s marketing approach for 2007.
This is a 14.1-incher widescreen laptop A8Jr from Asus which will be the first to have an ATI Mobility Radeon X3200 graphics. The laptop will be based on the Intel’s 945PM Express Chipset with Intel Core 2 Duo powering the Graphic card under the hood. Although company did not release the price detail but the new ATI card is bound to give this device graphics a punch that you will not see on other laptops. With option of having a Bluetooth it has in built Intel PRO/ wireless 3945ABG. The connectivity options include five USB ports, TV-out, card reader. Express cards, Wi-Fi and IEEE1394 have also been thrown in. it will weigh 2.93Kg and include a 6-cell battery pack. As said earlier no price and availability details have been provided.
If everybody is doing it so why not Toshiba. They have also come up with a new range of Vista compatible laptops in A135 series. Broadly speaking these laptop will have three models A135-S4499/S4467/S4427 with configs varying from Intel Core Duo to Intel Core 2 Duo. All the laptops have been built around Intel mobile 945GM Express chipset that have Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG. The 1280 x 800 resolution display has been coupled with Intel Graphics Media Accelerator with 8 to 224 MB of dynamic memory. The S4467 and S4427 will have SATA HDD’s of 160GB and 120GB while the S4499 model boasts of two HDD’s of 120GB each. The other feature that you will be able to find in these series will be USB ports, Wi-Fi, LAN port, PCMICA slot and card readers. The prices of the laptops are as follows 1) A135-S4499 at $1499.99 available from February 20 2) A135-S4467 at $999.99 available from January 30 3) A135-S4427 at $899.99 available from January 30
Intel officially announced the Next-Gen Wireless-N network connection, a wireless technology based on the 802.11n draft. it will replace the technology that you find in the Intel Centrino Duo Mobile technology and other Intel- based laptops. Intel claims this new technology will lessen dead spots and increase the performance by the multiple of five. What more it’s less taxing on the notebooks battery so the battery life also gets increased by an hour. You will find this technology in all the upcoming Vista enabled laptops of Asus, Acer, Gateway and Toshiba with more companies to follow. With this they also announced the ‘Connect with Centrino’ program in which company will work closely with access point vendors like Asus, Buffalo, Belkin, D-Link and Netgear to ensure hitch free adoption and performance.
The new entrant to the laptop arena is LN-14W laptop from Logitech that earlier only used to offer products for notebooks and desktops. Let’s go over to specs. The lappy rocks a .1-inch 1280 x 800 LCD display, option of Core 2 Duo T5500, T5600, or T7200 processor, ExpressCard slot, dual-layer DVD burner, 40 to 100GB hard disk drive, USB 2.0, and FireWire. Though the Logitech LN-14W laptop comes in three color and five keyboards (Japanese, English, Korean, Chinese, and Portuguese) options, it doesn’t come pre-loaded with the hottest thing at the moment. Yes, that’s Vista. Priced at US $1,736.
Toshiba again refreshed its laptop line up for the upcoming Vista release. This time there are three laptop in U205 series after the A135 series got updated. The U205 series will have 12.1-inch diagonal widescreen with HDD of 160GB with probably Intel Core 2 Duo doing processing under the hood as there is no info from Toshiba to this regard. The DDR2 SDRAM will range from 1024MB (for S5057) to 2048MB (for S5067). These will have Windows XP preloaded with possible Vista upgrade later. Available from 6th February onwards the U205-S5057 will be priced at $1,299 while the price of S5067 is pegged at $1,599.
The recent news for the Apple fans was the LED-backlit LCDs for the MacBook Pros. Now, Apple is most probably planning to make its compact MacBooks more compact more slimmer. The guys have developed an inimitable design that will integrate an optical drive at the bottom of the laptop. So, the underneath of the MacBookPro is the space which Apple has targeted at. Well, the creative idea is appealing but I doubt that users will love to turn over their notebook to insert the disk time and again. But, it’s an Apple’s idea. So, we could hope for a very feasible make. We are short on details but we do have this patent drawing. So, Apple is saving space. Sounds cool.
By the time Vista will be available, HP is going to make available its three new machines. The very first in the series is Pavillion a1700 desktop laptop that comes equipped with an Athlon 64 X2 3800+ processor, 1GB of DDR2 memory, 250GB SATA Hard Drive, a multi-format LightScribe DVD burner, and the expected NVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE. The others two headed for January 30 release are dv6255ca and dv6265ca that are low-end machines with Intel GMA950 chipset, 2GB RAM, 160GB hard disk drive, 1.6 and 1.83GHz Intel Core 2 Duos, 15.4-inch WXGA display, integrated 1.3-megapixel webcam, and a/b/g WiFi connectivity. The date for release is Jan. 30 since all the three models come with a copy of Vista Home Premium. Anyway, the pricing has been revealed for dv6255 only at CAD $1,399.
