Archive for January, 2009

Acer Ferrari 1200 With AMD Turion Ultra

January 30th, 2009

Acer Ferrari 1200 With AMD Turion Ultra

Acer today expanded its portable laptops with the new Ferrari 1200 with the latest AMD Turion X2 Ultra processor. The laptop has a LED display with backlight, 4 GB of DDR2 memory, a webcam, Bluetooth and VoIP for Internet telephony. No info on pricing at this time. Acer, the Acer Ferrari 1200 in Britain, then in the U.S. and the rest of the world in the near future.

via Electronista

New Panasonic Let’s Note Laptop Series

January 30th, 2009

New Panasonic Let’s Note Laptop Series

Panasonic has decided to upgrade its Let’s Note laptop series with 2 GB of RAM (4 GB MAX), Intel vPro technology and larger hard drives. The new notebook PC will be in Japan at the end of February 2009. Unfortunately, there is no information on pricing at this time.

via Akihabara

One Laptop Per Child dual touchscreen caught in the wild?

January 30th, 2009

One Laptop Per Child dual touchscreen caught in the wild?

The ‘One Laptop per Child project is in the need for inclusion in the arm, and maybe, just maybe, this is the device that can do it. What is obvious is the first in the Wild shot a dual touchscreen One Laptop Per Child 2.0.

In other words, the next generation of the OLPC will sport a dual-screen, but look at the picture you have to say it’s probably a mock-up, as the touch screen seems to be stuck on the picture and not real.

Given that a dual-screen laptop would logically be in the right direction for the One Laptop Per Child program.

via netbooknews

Minimalist Maniac Whitens Apple Keyboard with Spraypaint

January 30th, 2009

Minimalist Maniac Whitens Apple Keyboard with Spraypaint

Essell Steve hates the new two-tone Apple design – the aluminum iMac and black, black, white and shiny metal iPhone and especially the white on brushed aluminum keyboards.

What has he done? He grabbed a can of white paint and sprayed the rear of the Apple keyboard, finishing with the minimalist artifact seen above. Spectacular. Until the color begins to wear out, that is. And yes, Essell Anfassen kind, thank God.

Survey says Acer Aspire One is top of netbooks

January 30th, 2009

Survey says Acer Aspire One is top of netbooksAfter the first report of the Consumer Behavior PriceGrabber.com year a report that focuses on solid-state drives and Netbook trends and forecasts on the data collected from a survey, and sales in the first week in January is that netbooks are most popular for innovation and price.

PriceGrabber.com reviewed the 25 laptops, and it turns out, 48 percent are netbooks with the Acer Aspire One, the top slot.

Other species included in the list, where the Samsung MC10, the HP Mini 1000, the Lenovo S10, but just another Eee PC from the list, and this was the Eee PC 900HA and practically near the bottom of the list.

Apple shifts more notebooks than desktops

January 29th, 2009

Apple shifts more notebooks than desktopsAccording to statistics deep into Apple’s holiday sales figures last quarter of notebook MacBook Air and MacBook Pro lines over seventy percent of sales, the Macintosh is a first. Apple notebook sales to a larger portion of the Apple-mix and the growth of more than sales cannibalization of Apple desktop market.

In the October-December from 08 Apple Desktop moved 728,000 units, a decrease compared to Q1 of 08, but Apple’s Macbook sales records were destroyed, as Apple sold 1.8 million MacBooks in the same quarter.

These figures show that Apple’s Macbook line, the quarterly figures of 06, which means that Apple has shifted more than MacBooks Mac Pro. But desktop computers are still just as important in the market for Apple.

Dell Latitude XT2 tablet PC

January 29th, 2009

Dell Latitude XT2 tablet PCThe word is from Dell is designed for a new table called PB Dell Latitude XT2, this latest model from Dell is an Intel Core 2 Duo ULV processor and runs on the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system.

The Dell Latitude XT2 Tablet PC offers up to 1 GB of onboard memory, 5 GB of DDR3 RAM with a 1.28-inch SATA dive and includes an integrated graphics card as opposed to a separate ATI card.

Other features on the width XT2 is a 12.1 inch WXGA active touchscreen, 2 USB 2.0 ports, WiFi, Gigabit Ethernet, and the possibilities of WLAN and Bluetooth, and a 34mm ExpressCard slot.

via gottabemobile

Dell Latitude E5500 Review

January 29th, 2009

Dell Latitude E5500 Review

The Latitude E5500 offers a gigabit ethernet port (Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Controller) as well as wireless LAN with the options of either an in-house module from Dell (Dell wireless 1397 802.11g or 1510 802.11a/g/n) or from Intel (WiFi 5100 or 5300) as communication modules. Communication with your mobile phone or PDA is secured by a built in Bluetooth module (standard 2.1).

Those who fancy the E6xxx series notebook will notice a further important difference to the E6xxx series. There is no hint of an UTMS option far and wide. Dell clearly distinguishes the higher quality E6xxx Latitude series in this aspect, as well.

HP TouchSmart IQ810

January 29th, 2009
HP TouchScreen IQ810
Apart from a few stickers, before IQ810 looks stunning. The housing on the screen is shiny black plastic, the finger-print and dust-loving nature, but at least there is only a button set into it. Otherwise, the only thing that breaks his clean lines, the subtle integrated webcam.
Inside trim around the screen looks like it is just a black part of the display by a smooth sheet of glass that both they and the screen. This is a trick, HP also has the great success at its Pavilion notebooks. The shiny housing is offset from the matte black speaker bar him of silver trim, the IQ810 all around the edges.

Only ten percent of users own netbooks?

January 29th, 2009

Only ten percent of users own netbooks?

Its quite obvious that netbooks are becoming increasingly popular in recent times. The companies are still essentially the same product in a slightly different form factors, and have been for a while. Because of their relatively low cost and portability, it is really not surprising. But the question is always: How popular are netbooks? How many people actually have them?

According to a study by December 2008 PriceGrabber.com, ten percent of online consumers have netbooks. With the machine is used for little more than a year, that’s incredibly fast growth. Of the owners, most of them also own desktop PCs and laptops, the Netbook third computer, presumably for the size and battery life of devices.

Breaking the study, it shows that 19 percent of the laptop market is now available for netbooks. 12 of PriceGrabber.com ‘s most popular laptops are netbooks, with five of those who Acer products, two of Lenovo, and one from each of HP, Dell, Asus, Samsung and MSI. The market segments, most owners are Netbook near middle age, with more than half of the owners are in the 35 to 54 years old (26 percent of 35 – 44, and 27 percent 45-54).

The fact that netbooks are so far, no real surprise when the fact that Acer holds the second most popular Netbook on PriceGrabber.com is unexpected. The study asked the participants about the issue of the SSD-based netbooks, and only 11 percent said they would definitely a Netbook with SSD and 43 percent say they would, but only if the price falls. Sure, SSD is very expensive at the moment, but it really is a great need for a ton of storage on netbooks? It would be a bit more sense if they are almost exclusively on cloud, with minimal space for the operating system and some important files if the Internet is not available.

via PriceGrabber