Fujitsu have announced their latest ultraportable, the Fujitsu LIFEBOOK P8110, a 12.1-inch WXGA notebook with integrated 3G/UMTS, WiFi and Bluetooth. Based on Intel’s 1.6GHz Core 2 Duo SU9600 processor with up to 4GB of RAM and an optional 128GB SSD, the P8110 can apparently last for over seven hours on a single battery charge.
The Viliv S10 may be a size increase for the Korean company, but at 10-inches the convertible touchscreen netbook is still very much an ultraportable. Steve from MID Moves had a chance to grab some hands-on time with the S10, suggesting that the netbook is better put together than Gigabyte’s TouchNote; you can see his video after the cut.
Video demo after the cut
SSDs are finding their way into all sorts of gadgets today from netbooks to PMPs and camcorders. The smaller SSD form factors get, the more wide spread their use becomes. Samsung has announced a couple new SSDs that use the latest generation Toshiba 32nm MLC NAND technology.
If there’s one thing we’re crying out for, it’s another netbook connector standard. Happily the SATA-IO working group have delivered just that in the shape of mini-SATA (or mSATA), a new low-profile connector supporting 1.5Gb/s and 3.0Gb/s transfer rates but with a slightly smaller plug. To celebrate, Toshiba have outed two new mSATA SSDs, offer 30GB and 62GB capacity
The SSD certainly offers better performance than the average HDD in computer systems of all types today. The big problem for consumers is that the SSD still commands a significant premium over normal HDDs while offering significantly less storage space. This is the main reason that the SSD is more common in enterprise computing than in consumer machines. HP has announced that it is now incorporating SSDs into some of its enterprise server systems.
The typical SSD installs into the inside of a computer system and tends to use the SATA interface in consumer PCs. Super Talent has announced that it is now shipping its high-performance RAIDDrive SSDs that forgo the typical SSD form factor.
Pliant Technology is a developer of a storage medium known as Enterprise Flash Drives or EFDs. The EFD is a new class of high performance and high reliability storage drives. The company announced its first line of products this week including the LS300, LS150, and LB150.
Chalk another one up to bizarre branding: you’re looking at the Pierre Cardin PC-729 UMPC, the handiwork of Shenzhen Industries, and while you might assume the Chinese firm have “borrowed unofficially” the designer branding, in actual fact this is the result of a legitimate licensing deal. The PC-729 has a 7-inch 800 x 480 WVGA resistive touchscreen, 1.2GHz VIA C7-M processor and 16GB SSD, and is set to hit Chinese shelves priced at 2980 yuan ($436).
Importers Dynamism have released pricing and specification details for the Viliv S7, the latest ultraportable touchscreen device from the Korean company. Coming after the surprisingly popular S5 and well-received X70, the S7 adds a QWERTY keyboard and uses a more traditional netbook-style form-factor; according to Dynamism, when it drops in the US it’ll be priced from $629.
Modifying cases for PCs isn’t a new thing, especially when it comes to gaming on a PC. Those long nights in front of the monitor are not only bad for your eyes, but also for that standard PC you may have cramped up underneath your desk. That’s where getting a new case comes in, and frankly, there’s not much better of a manufacturer to do it, than NZXT. We’ve covered them a few times in the past, and each time we are equally impressed in the quality of their products. This time around, the Lexa S manages to surprise us yet again.
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