A concept computer is definitely a first for me. How far can a designer push the envelope, combining art and technology to extend beyond ordinary for a simple laptop? Designed by Kyle Cherry, Prime Gaming Laptop has envisaged a new type of laptop with creative in mind- a concept laptop with innovative collapsible OLED screens to offering a variety of aspect ratios for utmost gaming experience.
There has been a lot of talk regarding the Fujitsu Lifebook N7010 and its integrated Secondary Display. Many people may be wondering what you might use it for or just how it works. Thanks to this video we now can see a few examples in action.
According to the Washington Post, Delta Air Lines is going to be offering Wi-Fi services to all their passengers. This service will cost those who wish to connect Laptops, PDAs or smartphones to Wi-Fi service, $9.99 on flights that are three hours or less and $12.95 of flights longer than three hours.
One of the worldwide leading manufacturer of notebook computers, GammaTech Computer Corporation, has announced a new version of their award winning Durabook rugged notebooks. The new D15RP gives the same semi-rugged laptops geared more for businesses and government users.
Logictech says laptop home users spend 60 percent of their time on couch, 36 percent on bed and the rest are either sitting or lying on the floor with their notebook. That pretty much covers how I use mine. Also mentioned are the discomfort and heat related issues gathered from their research team. Because most laptop home users, including me, refuse to use the notebook in the much tradition way : butt on chair and notebook on desk; they have came out with a Lapdesk that’s said to help with the posture concerns and improve heat dissipation for the likes of me.
With the recent boom in the popularity of Netbooks, providing customers with the most cost effective way to get on the Internet without adding all of the extra software is what a lot of consumers are looking for. Most of us have a desktop PC that we do most of our work and browsing on, the cost of purchasing a laptop to surf the web while on the go can be a bit to much in these trying times. Hp took this into consideration when creating the successor the Mini-Note 2133, the HP Mini 1000. HP has taken the slick design and brilliant construction of the Mini-Note 2133 and made it surprisingly affordable.
We’ve seen number of 2.5-inch laptor drives with 500GB capacity announced lately, in fact most of them are already on sale. Samsung got ahead of competitors with the Spinpoint M6, then Hitachi released a much robust and eco-friendly model with two platter designed 5K500B. Here’s another half-terabyte offers highest areal density among the competitors – A Toshiba MK5055GSX with 500GB storage capacity and claims to have increased areal density of 576.4Mbit/mm2 (371.9Gb per square inch).
The releases include family of six models ranging from 120GB to 500GB spins at 5400RPM with 8MB cache, SATA II interface and 12ms average seek time. The 320GB, 400GB and 500GB models are two-platter designed while that’s only one in 120GB, 160GB and 250GB models.
If the Samsung SSD drop test video set you shivering, we’ve another test video that might similarly affect you. Pelias Mobile seem to have taken an abject dislike to a Dell Latitude XT Tablet PC, and so they run it through an array of increasingly extreme tests. The Latitude XT first takes a tumble onto grass, then onto gravel, before cleaning up with a quick shower before being run over by a car.
Full testing video after the cut
Fujitsu’s LifeBook N7010 with its curious “Touch Zone” secondary display could be viewed as a gimmick or as a realistic productivity enhancement: a 4-inch touchscreen embedded above the notebook’s keyboard, it offers users a secondary display for IM chats, toolbars or media. Laptop Mag spent some time with a pre-production N7010, and while they’re not 100-percent convinced, the Fujitsu certainly seems to make some compelling arguments.
The U820 isn’t the only fresh Fujitsu today with a touchscreen: the LifeBook N7010 is a regular 16-inch 16:9 notebook but it also has a 4-inch touchscreen embedded above the keyboard. This sub-display – which Fujitsu are calling the “Touch Zone” – can be treated as an extension of the main screen, with apps dragged ‘down’ to it, or be used as a toolbox for app controls or media playback buttons. Under the hood there’s a Core 2 Duo P8400 processor running at 2.26GHz, ATI Radeon HD 3470 graphics with 256MB GDDR3, and a Blu-ray drive.
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