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HP Mini-Note 2133 Laptop for $499

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HP Mini-Note 2133 is fashionably late. Specs are exactly what we’d heard and what was up on Amazon earlier: 2.6 pounds,

The HP Mini is packed with a combination of features to boost productivity and improve the overall mobile experience, including:

* Simple, refined design and anodized aluminum shell that is sleek and sturdy yet lightweight;
* HP DuraKeys, featuring a clear coating applied over the notebook keyboard that protects the finish and printed letters and characters;
* An HP 3D DriveGuard, which sends a signal to shut down the hard drive upon sudden movement or shock by using a three-axis digital accelerometer chip
* Scratch-resistant display and magnesium hinge bracket
* A large 8.9-inch diagonal WXGA display, user-friendly full keyboard (QWERTY) and touchpad;
* Ability to view video, still-image capture, web conferencing or video-enhanced instant messaging(3) with no additional hardware to buy or carry. An optional(4) integrated VGA webcam enables video and still-image capture to allow the addition of photos and video clips to presentations, documents and email;
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* Two battery solutions – three-cell for lightest-weight configurations or optional(4) six-cell for longer battery life;
* Wireless technologies such as integrated Wi-Fi Certified WLAN(3) and optional Bluetooth™, allowing students to access the Internet as well as communicate via email, IM, chat, VOIP and blogging. The wireless technologies also enable connections at hotspots as well as with Bluetooth devices such as printers, mice and headsets; and
* Optional(4) Absolute Software’s Computrace(5) allows IT professionals to work with local law enforcement to track and help recover stolen or missing computers, inventory computers district wide and detect changes in hardware and software.

variety of configurations ranging from a $499 1.0GHz Linux-powered unit with 4GB of flash and 512MB of RAM to a maxed-out $749 config with a 1.6GHz processor, 120GB drive and Vista Business.

source:HP
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Intel Anti-Theft Tool For Laptops Soon

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Intel says an anti-theft technology for laptops during the fourth quarter of this year, but the company not offering any details about it.

Intel Anti-Theft Technology, the new capability will be added to Intel’s Active Management Technology, which is part of Centrino vPro and allows IT managers to remotely access and configure computers.

In the event of theft, the technology will “basically lock the system, lock the disk, so people cannot be maliciously using and getting the data,” said Dadi Perlmutter, executive vice president and general manager of Intel’s Mobility Group, according to a transcript of his presentation at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in Shanghai.

The anti-theft technology being developed by Intel would presumably give IT managers a way of protecting this data once a machine has gone missing.

Besides Intel, several other companies are working on the anti-theft technology, including Lenovo Group, McAfee, Fujitsu Siemens Computers and Phoenix Technologies.

More details of the technology will be made available when it is closer to being released, Intel said.

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Inspiron 1525, Dell Blu-ray laptop for $879

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Dell tells us as it launches a Blu-ray laptop for under a $1,000.

The Inspiron 1525 is Dell’s affordable consumer offering with a 15.4-inch high definition wide aspect display with 720p resolution – that won’t show you the best of the Bu-ray experience to be fair – but there is an HDMI port for connectivity to high resolution displays and HDTVs.

The Blu-ray player disc drive is fully backwards compatible, and will play as well as burn traditional DVDs and CDs while a Blu-ray burner drive is also available, at extra cost.

Available today on dell.com, (and apparently coming to Europe but no sign as yet on the site) BD-lovers can get the Inspiron 1525 with optional Blu-ray disc playback starting at $879.

 

source:pocket-lint
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Acer With a New Concept Of Notebook PC

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Acer is hyping things up with a teaser page on their website for the unveiling of a new “notebook PC concept” to take place New York later today.

Clearly not with the concept of a world wide web, whatever is to be revealed, described by Acer as an “innovative, industry-first, laptop design” will not be shown in the UK until a press event on Thursday 20th March.

 

source:pocket-lint
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New Lenovo ThinkPad X300

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Lenovo has officially unveiled the ThinkPad X300 notebook PC, designed for most demanding “road warriors” with the asterisked claim of being the thinnest and lightest full-function notebook.

“Compared to major vendors offering 13-inch widescreen notebook PCs: Sony, Dell, Apple, Asus and Fujitus Siemens. Full featured defined as including technologies such as built-in DVD burner, selection of USB ports, Ethernet connection, replaceable battery and more”. Dig at Apple wethinks.

The ultra-thin, ultraportable has a 13.3-inch WXGA+ display, measures less than 1.85cm at its thinnest point and has a starting weight of 1.33kg.

The ThinkPad X300 combines a “number of leading technologies” such as solid-state drive storage, a LED backlit display, ultra-long battery life (up to 10 hours) and enhanced wireless connectivity.

Depending on what model users opt for, the ThinkPad X300 can offer an optional built-in 7mm DVD burner. It also includes stereo speakers, digital microphone and an integrated camera.

It offers “roll-cage” durability, integrated fingerprint reader, and comes equipped with a 1.8-inch 64GB SSD that provides more than twice the performance of a regular 2.5-inch hard drive – and with no moving parts – four times greater shock resistance than hard disk drives.

The notebook also comes with the latest Intel Core 2 Duo processor technology, up to 4GB memory and Lenovo’s ThinkVantage Technologies.

ThinkPad X300 notebook price starts from £1700.

source:pocket-lint

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New 500GB Laptop Hard Disks

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Laptop computer storage is racing fast towards the 500G-byte level with Fujitsu becoming the third hard-disk drive maker to announce a drive at that capacity.

Fujitsu is accomplishing this capacity by combining three disk platters — the magnetically-coated disks on which data is stored — each with a 170G-byte capacity inside the drive. Hitachi, the first company to announce a 500G-byte drive, and Samsung Electronics are also using three platter designs.

The third platter increases the thickness of the drive to 12.5 millimeters versus most other laptop drives, which have just two platters and are 9.5 millimeters thick.

As a result the Fujitsu drive won’t fit into the drive bay on many laptop computers, so its availability doesn’t mean an instant capacity upgrade will be possible for all laptop users. Hitachi’s drive is also 12.5 millimeters thick, but Samsung said it has been able to keep the drive height at 9.5 millimeters on its Spinpoint M6 drive.

Fujitsu will begin selling its 2.5-inch drive in May. It will have a Serial ATA (SATA) interface and can transfer data at up to 300M bytes per second. The average seek time for reading data on the 4,200 rpm drive is 12 milliseconds and 14 milliseconds for writing data. Fujitsu didn’t announce pricing.

Hitachi said in January that it would ship its drive this month and Samsung announced a March shipping date. Both the Hitachi and Samsung drives spin the disk faster, at 5,400 rpm.

source:pcworld