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First Nvidia’s Netbook Solution

admin — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:34:16 +0000

Each netbook owner would love to have a device which is potential to make more operations than all netbooks usually do. The combination of different possibilities is that what they need nowadays. To surf the internet, to play big crazy games, to watch long-lasted videos and to do more things, it is the requirement.

Mobinnova Elan Netbook

The analysts of the market expect one new netbook, enabling the users to do all the above-mentioned, to conquer the market first, or perhaps one of the first. Such forecast concerns Nvidia‘s device called Ion. It is likely to be launched in the first quarter of the coming year.

The company’s specialists do believe Ion will have graphics and video performance a few times better that a device based on just Atom processor. The innovated unit is going to combine both Intel’s Atom processor GPU of Nvidia’s GeForce 9400M.

Nvidia is making a real evolutionary step to netbook industry development. It is worth noting just battery work of the newcomer. Will it be longer? No, but at the same time less heat will be generated by an Ion-platform device. It is naturally that the new machine will be a little bit more expensive that common Atom-based unit, but it will not come at a cost.

More details: prweb.com

Anti-theft Technology In Lenovo Netbooks

admin — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:52:30 +0000

All year round Lenovo has been surprising the customers with a series of ThinkPad. They were launched in such sequence: ThinkPad X300 in February, Windows XP-based IdeaPad S10 netbook PC in August and ThinkPad W700 in August again. The last launch has taken place this week. The company unveiled its anti-theft technology laptop. This technology was furnished by Intel Corp’s and Absolute Software Corp.’s Computrace.

Lenovo Thinkpad W700 Netbook

It was announced that the anti-theft protection will be brought by Lenovo’s computers, and Lenovo is one of the first companies to deal with that. How does this built-in protection work? It can automatically detect where the stolen or lost notebook is, and respond a thief. This detection can be rendered due to the individual company’s IT policy.

Lenovo Thinkpad W700

The detective strategy is like this. When an IT technician gets a report that a laptop is disappeared he at once renders the unit inoperable. Besides if a criminal turns on the device a remote engineer on the home base merely deletes the computer data and locks the entire system.

George Thangadurai, general manager of Intel’s Anti-Theft Program, says:

“The notebook lost in the airport or stolen from a car can be devastating and is a common nightmare in the back of every business traveller’s mind, the collaboration with Absolute and Lenovo is aimed at helping solve that problem.”

The two technologies even allows the specialists to remotely handle security and management jobs on a computer.

Source: pcworld.com

HP Mini 1000 Vivienne Tam Edition UMPC

admin — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:08:24 +0000

The second HP netbook has been produced and one can find a number of improvements of some functions. There is a 10.2-inch screen instead of an 8.9-inch one that was before, and SSDs for storage. A variety set of options is offered by the company. The high definition ratio is marked, the sound of the onboard speak is very qualitative, although some people do not find it so much important, but nevertheless it is one of the functions which makes any device stand out about itself.

HP Mini 1000 Vivienne Tam Edition

The ultimate accessory this spring, the HP Mini 1000 Vivienne Tam Edition features a striking design inspired by a blend of Asian and Western cultures, antiquity and modernity, fashion and technology…

HP Mini 1000 UMPC Vivienne Tam Edition

HP Mini 1000 Battery Life

The only thing that does not bring much pleasure is battery life. Usually customers deal with 3-cell battery to save their money and to feel themselves comfortable not to be bending under a big weight.For those who prefer longer battery life it is quite a sad thing that the newer netbook is equipped with only 3-cell battery and it 2-hours of energetic work. But the offer of 6-cell battery is to sure to come, which will enlarge the battery life up to 5 – 6 hours.

HP mini 1000 Fashion Netbook

Another major consideration is typing, netbooks are known to be smaller than common laptop PCs. The newer Mini 1000 keyboard has 92 % the size of a regular laptop. Typing is comfortable with the keys space. And the modified tackpad is similar to that of Acer’s Aspire, the tackpad mouse buttons are sited at the sides and not below as it was before.

Source: pcworld.com

Notebook Predictions for 2008

Laptop Adviser — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 11:36:09 +0000

By Darius Chang

In the mobile computing world, quad-core processing and chipset refreshes are almost as certain as death and taxes. Fortunately, 2008 looks set to be a more exciting year than simply watching specifications grow.

The upcoming CES will be a fertile ground for the latest breakthroughs in technology. However, many of the prototypes showcased may take years before hitting the retail market, assuming they are not vaporware. So keep an eye out for our extensive coverage of the event for laptops of the future. For now, check out our educated guesses at which areas in mobile computing are likely to make the most impact in the coming year.

UMPCs equal ultraportables in performance
The ASUS Eee PC did more for the UMPC cause than others did due to its ground-breaking price point. This will pave the way for more vendors entering this niche market with cheaper or more powerful products.

Though the original intent was for UMPCs to become companions for your primary computing device, this group of machines may soon hit the same performance bracket as full-fledge ultraportables. Already, models like the Gigabyte U60 and Packard Bell EasyNote XS20 are running at 1GHz clockspeed. With the combination of faster flash-based storage and improved graphics engines, the time may come when choosing between a UMPC and an ultraportable becomes a matter of screen size preference.

Design becomes as important as specifications
With Intel dominating the mobile CPU and chipset scene, there is really very little performance difference between getting a laptop from a premium vendor versus one from a budget manufacturer. So getting laptops based on specifications have become as useful as buying a car based on the number of tires.

2007 was a colorful year as various vendors like Dell and Sony decided to differentiate their products by offering a range of colors. HP went down another path and started a range of limited-edition models sporting unique HP Imprint designs. Yet another maker, Fujitsu, adopted a different approach by squeezing a 14.1-inch display into a 13.3-inch chassis. Who knows, perhaps soon your friendly sales assistant might have to start taking lessons on aesthetics rather than technology.

Mobile gaming hits new highs
While US gamers have been happily shooting and looting with insanely fast laptops holding dual graphics cards (GPU), Asian consumers have had to meddle around with single-GPU notebooks for far too long. Thanks to Dell, the XPS M1730 finally made its way to our shores and changed the way we think about mobile gaming.

From here on out, any laptop which claims to cater to the gaming crowd will certainly need to offer dual GPUs in order to be taken seriously. In fact, Nvidia has already announced that its new SLI configuration is compatible with three video cards. Though we doubt a tri-GPU portable will appear anytime this year, we can always hope.

More notebooks get the SSD treatment
Since the processor and graphics card of a laptop are decided at birth, the primary method of improving a notebook’s performance hardware-wise used to be by upgrading the memory. Not anymore. The rise of the solid state drive (SSD) offers another viable method to boost your machine speed.

Full story: Asia.Cnet.com

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