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Asus P30A Business Laptop Gets Official

April 23rd, 2009

Asus P30A Business Laptop Officially Launched

Taiwan’s ASUS on Wednesday launched the 1-inch thick P30A business notebook, first spotted early last month, which is powered by a 1.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo ULV processor. There are two SO-DIMM sockets that can support 4GB of RAM. The notebook uses a 13.3-inch, 16:9, LED-backlit display with 1366×768 resolution and an anti-glare coating. ASUS opted to use a magnesium alloy for the PC’s chassis and gives the hard drive a free-fall sensor to reduce the amount of data loss in a drop.ASUS is offering the P30A with a choice of four 2.5-inch hard drives, including 5400RPM and 7,200RPM variants on a 320GB unit, as well as similar speeds for a 250GB drive. There is a choice of Windows Vista operating systems, including Ultimate, Business and Home Premium. The P30A weighs 3.3lbs with the 4-cell battery, though no endurance times were published. ASUS does promise a fast recharge for those batteries to within 90 percent of life in just 90 minutes. The keyboard on the P30A is also spill-resistant.

Security is enhanced with a fingerprint reader that can require a login before boot rather than at the Windows prompt. If the notebook is stolen, an embedded Intel security chip tracks it and secures the data. It’s also possible to remotely wipe data.

Other features of the P30A include a 1.3-megapixel webcam, Bluetooth 2.1 with EDR, Wi-Fi, a 3G broadband module, and an HDMI port in addition to usual connection options. A dual-layer DVD writer provides optical storage.

No pricing or release dates for the P30A were revealed by ASUS.

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Sharp Mebius netbook comes with two screens

April 23rd, 2009

Sharp Mebius netbook comes with two screens

Just before Apple announced the latest line of MacBooks, there was a lot of speculation about what a glass trackpad can bring to the machines. There were pictures of mock MacBooks with a second screen and not as a trackpad, with the second screen of the host bank charges. These rumors have proven to be obviously wrong, but the idea is still alive, just not on a MacBook.

Sharp’s new Netbook, Mebius PC-NJ70A, has just the idea behind it. Rather than a trackpad, it is involved, 854 x 480 LCD display on the palm rest. The screen can be any number of widgets, including an equalizer, you can use your fingers, a calculator and a notepad. There are probably other widgets for the smaller screen as well. The touchscreen has a built-in ambient light detector and adjusts the brightness according to how much brighter the environment.

The small touch-screen, while the standard Netbook otherwise quite expensive with an estimated $ 817 U.S. Dollar, is a big step forward. Netbook screens, even at 10 inches are usually much too small for some people, and with an additional 4 inch screen, very useful. Most of the widgets on the touch screen is very likely small applications, the only pain to have to in Windows anyway. Instead of searching for the calculator app, there is the right of the screen, the same with Notepad. So if it is perhaps not the standard be any time soon, Sharp Dual shielded Netbook is a great insight into those notebooks in the rule could soon move.