Family pestering for a new laptop this holiday season but economics leading you down the netbook aisles? Think again: eMachines are offering their full 14.1-inch widescreen notebook, the eMachines eMD620-5777, with a 1.6GHz AMD Athlon 2650e CPU, 1GB of RAM and a 160GB hard-drive for a madly affordable $429.99.
If your tastes lean more toward gaming laptops than ultraportables, Toshiba may still have the machine for you today. The Toshiba Qosmio X305-Q708 is the latest from the company’s gaming range, complete with a 17-inch widescreen display, Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9300 quad-core processor, 4GB of DDR3 RAM and both a 128GB SSD and 320GB 7,200rpm SATA hard-drive. It also offers NVIDIA’s new GeForce 9400M chipset with Hybrid SLI, as seen in the latest Apple MacBooks.
Lenovo’s X200s, announced at the same time as the X200t Tablet PC, aims to take the ethos of the company’s standard X200 ultraportable and instill some stamina into it. By switching out the standard CPU for a low-voltage processor, using an LED backlight for the display and strapping in a 9-cell battery, Lenovo claim 13.2hrs continuous runtime; Laptop Mag have have it on the bench, and under normal conditions it coasted to 10hrs 43 minutes.
Apparently having a wider viewing angle notebook isn’t always beneficiary working in a tight cubicle environment or public hotsports location like Starbucks or bookstore. LG Display has developed a 14.1-inch laptop’s LCD panel with a privacy control feature; display with ability to change viewing angles, so the curious minds next to you wouldn’t be able to see the information displaying on the screen.
Fujitsu caused no small amount of head-scratching when they labelled their LifeBook T1010 Tablet PC as “entry-level”, not least because of its $1,775 price tag. The 13.3-inch convertible has a choice of either Intel’s 2.26GHz Core 2 Duo P8400 CPU or a 2.16 Celeron-M, together with 1GB or 2GB of RAM; CNET Australia have been playing with the faster processor and larger chunk of memory, but even then they’re not entirely convinced by the T1010.
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