The CeBIT 2009 has been a great success for some manufacturers while other like Asus appeared not to make use of their time there, for some reason this happens sometimes. However, Panasonic used this time to official launch show off the new ToughBook CF W8, this time it is strong but light if that that makes any sense at all.
The market is about to get another UMPC and this time it is going to be from Samsung, this seven inch display device will be known as the Samsung NP Q1EX, but a more catchier name could do the whole thing a power of good. This device has some great features as shown below, but is there enough demand for this at the moment, Samsung thinks so.
The computer maker Gigabyte has launched three laptops this week at the CeBIT show, quite amazing considering that these are the firms first venture into this market. Because these are new releases, there is not a great deal of information around at the moment, but as soon as there is, we will be conducting a full review.
This are being spoken of as being the ultraportable laptops, simply because of the battery power, which is said to be up to eight hours, but with battery upgrade this, could be up to twelve hours, which is amazing and certainly better than the two to three hours that you get out of the normal laptop batteries.
Looks like automobile manufacturer Daewoo is jumping in the kid’s laptop market with its Lukid laptop, looks very similar to the OLPC laptop.
On the downside, the Lukid is going to cost around $500 USD so don’t see it selling anywhere other than Korea anytime soon.
Daewoo Lucoms(www.lucoms.co.kr) launched its low-cost education-use mobile computer ‘LUKID’ for children in Korea market.
Based on Intel’s Classmate PC, the LUKID is po
Is it me or is the world just going crazy on these mini-notebooks?
Here’s Acer Aspire One Mini-notebook that should be ready to buy reaaaal soon.
The initial Aspire One 2.17-pound mini-laptop model is based on the Atom N270 CPU at 1.6GHz and the Intel 82945GMS chipset. The system has 512MB of main memory, and an 8GB solid state drive. The 8.9″ display has a resolution of 1024-by-600 pixels and LED backlight.
Other features include a built-in web camera, 95% full size keyboard, touchpad, 802.11b/g wireless module, Ethernet LAN
It looks like Bestlink’s Alpha 400 linux-based UMPC might become the “cheapest” mini laptop you will be able to own at $250 and possible sale at $180.
With the recent explosion of UMPCs by big manufacturers, this sure looks like its going to be another hit.
Especially since a lot of desktop applications are being developed as web counterparts including Microsoft Office, there’s no need for the laptop user to carry all his applications on the laptop, maybe on a 8GB SD card.
What might be better is if they inclu
