Archive for May, 2008
OLPC sub $100 dual-touchscreen laptop
The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project looks to be on track to meet its target of producing a laptop for a price per unit below $100 set out when the initiative was launched in 2005. Work is already underway on the “XO-2″ laptop, which will be cheaper and smaller and will use less power. […]
Dell Mini Inspiron
Look at the photo of the Dell Mini Inspiron ultraportable laptop, the company’s first low-cost mini notebook.
No word about Dell Mini Inspiron details. But we know that the small laptop has three USB ports, a memory card reader, VGA output, and Ethernet LAN port. The laptop has a red lid.
Earlier reports say Dell’s 8.9-inch screen […]
MacBook Air can cut through bread
The Apple’s MacBook Air is one of the superfine laptop in the world. The Apple fan from Germany are claiming that the edge of the MacBook Air laptop is not only sharp - but downright dangerous. The details are a little hard to suss out due to the language barrier, but it would appear […]
VIA OpenBook
VIA Technologies introduced the VIA OpenBook ultraportable laptop, featuring a 8.9-inch display and VIA’s processor and integrated graphics.
“Powered by the VIA C7-M ULV processor and the VIA VX800 digital media IGP chipset, the VIA OpenBook mini-note reference design is a small, 1kg, 8.9″ mini-notebook form factor design that supports screen resolutions of up to 1024×600 […]
Hypersonic Avenger AG2
Meet the Hypersonic Avenger AG2 - 12.1-inch ultraportable laptop based on Intel’s Centrino chip.
The Hypersonic Avenger AG2 configured with an 45nm Intel “Penryn” T8100, T8300, or T9300 processor, up to 4GB of DDR2 memory, and up to 250GB hard drive. Optionally, customers can choose a 64GB solid state drive instead of the HDD. This sub-notebook […]
Black Eee PC 901
Now you can take a look at the black version of the ASUS EEE 901 laptop.
The 8.9-inch Atom-based lappie show no signs of the rumored Bluetooth or anything else unusual that we can see. Black is certainly predictable as a continuation of the original Eee PC 700-series color scheme. It’s certainly not as surprising […]
Asustek drops WiMAX from Eee PC 901
Asustek planned to integrate WiMAX technology into its next generation Eee laptops, recently it has decided to make WiMAX available only as an option to contract customers. Asustek believes the WiMAX market will not reach maturity in 2008, and has therefore decided to push WiMAX only in its 14.1- to 15.4-inch laptops, mainly in the […]
Dell’s XPS M1730 with 7,200RPM 320GB
Seagate Technology announced its Momentus 7200.3 hard drive, the first 7,200-rpm, 320GB hard drive for laptops, now powers Dell XPS laptop and will be available soon.
“Laptop users want every bit of capacity, performance and durability that desktop PCs deliver,” said Michael Wingert, Seagate executive vice president and general manager, Personal Compute […]
DIY Notebook
OCZ Technology Group has announced its Do-It-Yourself (DIY) gaming laptop. Do-It-Yourself (DIY) program allows customers to purchase an unconfigured barebone notebook and customize it. Users can select operating system, processor, memory, and hard drive or solid state drive of choice.
A DIY barebone latop, called OCZNBIS15DIYA, features a 15.4-inch display and is based on Intel’s PM965 […]
Xtreme 917V
XtremeNotebooks has added the Intel Xeon processor option to its Xtreme 917V notebook. The 917V is the first US-distributed laptop to feature the Xeon Quad Core CPU, designed specially for servers and workstations.
“With available options such as the new 45nm Intel Penryn CPUs, high capacity Blu-Ray drive storage, RAID 0, 1 or 5 arrays, dual […]