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Thursday, 16 October 2008
NEC have announced that they too will be competing in the growing Netbook market with their new “LaVie” brand, which is set to include super-compact and ultra-lightweight sub-notebooks. The first model, the LaVie Light, features fairly standard specs for this market but the extra competition is always welcome, helping to drive prices lower. Thursday, 28 August 2008
Samsung has today unveiled their X360 (no xbox relation) notebook which it hopes will outdo Apple’s MacBook Air. The impressive offering was presented at the IFA consumer-electronics fair in Berlin and will feature Sammy’s next-gen 128GB SSD, finger-print scanner for security, 7-in-1 card reader and silver-nano particles on the keyboard to resist bacteria. Monday, 25 August 2008
Georgia Tech boffins have created a new computer interface that turns the tongue into a control mechanism much akin to a joystick. They envision a system where a disabled person’s mouth could be transformed into a virtual computer where teeth act as a keyboard that is controlled by a magnetic tongue. Monday, 7 July 2008
Designer Isamu Sanada has come up with a very appealing tablet computer concept that combines the interactivity of the iPhone with the elegance of the MacBook Air. The design incorporates a 13.3-inch widescreen LCD and would feature mobile connectivity features such as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and GPS. It would require no keyboard as everything could be accessed via touch or stylus, but with a full range of inputs, you could attach a keyboard for more comfortable typing when at home. The concept just screams Apple and looks exactly as we’d expect from an official design. It is a realistic production candidate too, given existing technologies and a real-world, purchasable example in the form of Axiotron’s Modbook.
Tuesday, 10 June 2008
HP has announced its new TouchSmart 2 all-in-one PC which features an amazing fully portable 22″ touchscreen within a 2.6-inch thick chassis. The TouchSmart 2 comes in two models – the IQ504 PC is the standard and the IQ506 PC comes with a TV tuner. Both models come with a 2.16GHz Intel Core Duo T5850 processor, 500GB of storage, 256MB NVIDIA GeForce 9300 M HS HD graphics and 802.11n WiFi. “The new HP TouchSmart family of PCs features HP software designed specifically for touch. A finger tapped or swept across the high-resolution screen delivers quick access to information, entertainment and social networks. Without using a keyboard or mouse, consumers can play music and create playlists, zoom in or out of photos, and quickly check the weather or watch TV,” says the press release. The launch date is expected to be July 13 and the PC will be available in 17 countries with prices expected to be set at $1,299 for the IQ504 PC and $1,499 for the IQ506 PC. Sources: Tuesday, 10 June 2008
HP has announced an overhauled version of their Voodoo notebook line which steals the title of “world’s thinnest notebook away from Apple’s MacBook Air. The new version does away with its gaming focus in favour of a small, sleek notebook with a 13.3-inch display and an all-carbon fibre chassis. It is just .70-inch thick, bettering the Air’s thickest point of .76-inch. The Envy 133 features an instant-on Voodoo IOS mode that enables a user to go from power off to web browsing almost instantly. Users can also look at photos, chat and make Skype calls without loading Microsoft Windows which is a big plus for people on the go. The instant-on feature utilises a lightweight version of Linux and includes an optimised version of Firefox for web browsing, Pidgeon for instant messaging to virtually any IM platform plus a photo gallery and music player application. The power adapter is quite large but it also serves as a WiFi access point. The notebook is too thin to house an ethernet port, so it is built right into the power adapter. The 133’s base configuration will start at $2,099 in a black carbon fibre finish. A white version will also be available at launch. See also: Sources: Tuesday, 3 June 2008
The Asus 10-inch Eee PC 1000 has at long last been made official and will be available soon. Pricing has also been released which could see the 1000-series starting at $625.
The new sub-notebook is being shown at the Computex Information Technology show in Taiwan which began today. It will offer screen size and resolution superior to that of the first Eee laptop as well as a keyboard that is 92% the size of an average laptop keyboard which should please users who found the keyboard on the first model too small. Asus claims the new model will offer up to 7.5 hours of battery life (3.2 hours min.) thanks to a new 6-cell battery. The Eee PC 1000 will have a maximum capacity of 40GB on its SSD and will be Linux based. The Eee PC 1000(H) will offer a choice of either a 40GB SSD or an 80GB traditional hard disk and will run on either Windows XP or Linux. Both models will support a maximum of 2GB DDR2 memory and feature Intel’s new 1.6GHz Atom CPU. They will include 802.11n wireless networking as well as Bluetooth connectivity. A 1.3MP webcam will be included and they will be available in a wider range of colours than the previous model. Asus has sold more than 1 million Eee PC units since the Eee’s launch in October 2007. “With constant innovations and implementation of the latest technologies in the new Eee PC range, we have since expanded the original 3 ‘E’s into ‘Easy’, ‘Excellent’ and ‘Exciting’. ‘Easy’ will still encompass the core value of Easy to learn, work and play, ‘Excellent’ will highlight the Eee PC’s role as an Excellent mobile Internet device, and ‘Exciting’ entails utilizing the Eee PC for Exciting multimedia enjoyment.” says Jerry Shen, CEO of Asus. Sources: Related articles: Wednesday, 14 May 2008
They are looking to reach 5.7 percent market share which means an additional 11 million units must be sold worldwide by 2011. This would seem impossible when you look at the figures – market share worldwide for Samsung has only grown from 1.2 percent in 2005 to 1.7 percent in 2007. Sony is Samsung’s nearest competitor with 6 percent market share and is the one they must overtake in order to stay afloat. Other competitors are well ahead with Toshiba at 10 percent, Dell at 14 percent, Acer at 16 percent and Hewlett-Packard at 23 percent. There is some amusing irony to this story. Even if Samsung does cease their laptop operations, they’ll still be in the business, supplying Sony with many of the components in their laptops including the LCD panels. |
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