15
2008
Sony Vaio NS notebook with Blu-ray
Sony’s newest model range in the school of Vaio is the NS, a 15.4″ skinny thing with Blu-Ray, 4 gigs of RAM and a “textured exterior” for your salad fingers. It’s also accompanied by the CS, a similar machine with a 14.4″ widescreen display and a 5.7lb weigh-in. These machines have Intel Core 2 Duo [...]
4
2008
Samsung X360 – a laptop that weights only 1.27kg
The battle among gadget-makers has been intense over the past decade or so. However, we have come across very few instances when a brand goes head-on with another, especially in the marketing aspect. Samsung’s positioning for the X360 is a case in point. The product, apparently, has now taken the crown for the “lightest laptop,” [...]
21
2008
UrbanMax – sliding laptop from Intel
Super-gadgets are the style order of the future. And, Intel has pulled out an ace just when the techie tribe was getting a little claustrophobic about the constant repetition of technology and design. The company has unveiled a new concept laptop/UMPC, tentatively codenamed the UrbanMax. It reminds us of some of the sliderphones available in [...]
21
2008
Fujistu U2010 UMPC has 11.1 hours of autonomy
Akihabara News got its hands on Fujitsu’s U2010/U820, its freshly-upgraded and tiniest laptop. The new model has an Intel Atom Z530 CPU clocked to 1.6 GHz, a gigabyte of RAM, a 5.6″ display set to 1280×800, WiFi and Bluetooth, and 5 claimed hours of battery life. Upgrade to the larger, pokey-out-the-back battery, and you’ll get [...]
13
2008
Maplin’s Minibook – small on price and small on size
As low-powered as they tend to be, you can’t help but like those little-rascal netbooks. Maplin’s Minibook sports a seven-inch screen and weighs a pound and a half. Selling for $333, the iddy widdy thing includes a 2GB solid state drive, 128MB of RAM and built-in Wi-Fi. Application-wise, it features a web browser, e-mail client, [...]
12
2008
Orbitsound T3 portable stereo speaker
Folks who want to maintain their personal space can always look forward to the Orbitsound T3 speaker. While it isn’t as private as a pair of headphones, it won’t cause hearing damage either if used properly, unlike a pair of headphones. The T3 uses amazing airSOUND® single-point-stereo technology to power its personal stereo aura. The [...]
12
2008
ThinkPad W700 – another laptop launched by Lenovo
Lenovo’s newest entry to the ThinkPad line, the W700, is a behemoth: the type of laptop IBM’s own mob bosses might tie around a blog informer’s ankle before pushing him off a pier. Weighing 8 pounds, the W700′s is clearly aimed at mobile creatives: the 17-incher sports the first Intel Quad Core Extreme CPU and [...]
6
2008
First notebook PCs-Lenovo IdeaPad S9 and S10
Chinese PC giant Lenovo has rammed into notebook market with its two ultra portable laptops, IdeaPad S9 and IdeaPad S10, which support host of popular applications such as web browsing, email, music and other MS Office applications. The Lenovo IdeaPad S10 is a super-slim and highly portable laptop. It runs Intel Corp.’s Atom processor and [...]
22
2008
Laptop Book – Open to reveal a Computer
This computer looks like a normal book on the outside, but when you open it you are about to find a complete PC that includes everything a normal laptop would. It’s still just a concept but it would surely make a good impression, but also a statement about the society’s virtualization – something that not [...]
19
2008
Asus Eee PC 900 launching on May 12 in U.S. for retail price of $549
A rumor has been circulating the gadgets blogosphere for a couple of days regarding the launching of the new Asus Eee PC 900, the big brother of the original Asus Eee PC. Eee PC 900 would be getting an early launch next month in Asia but it looks like the US won’t have to wait [...]
