2009年5月12日星期二

Comfort without Compromise

Well now Fujitsu, using technology from Willcom Inc, have come up with a solution that could make laptops and other small devices less attractive to thieves and will render your laptop batteries absolutely useless if it does fall into unscrupulous hands.
“As consumers are placing greater emphasis on the design aspect of their mobile device, our new NB200 responds to this demand and offers a perfect balance of portability, quality and usability without compromising any of them,” said Wong Wai Meng, Senior Product Marketing Manager for Toshiba PA3383U-1BRS battery ’s Computer Systems Division. “The smaller devices are, the more consumers value the design aspect. We very much took this into account; the new Toshiba NB200 represents an elegant design statement.”
The comparison to Dell isn't entirely fair, because Dell Inspiron 6000 battery is pushing the more expensive solid state drives in both its Lattitude and Adamo laptops. But it's worth nothing that HP also cut costs by pairing an AMD Athelon Neo processor with an ATI Mobility Radeon HD graphics card instead of relying on Intel's Core 2 Duo processor. The result is a capable media center at the expensive of battery life, because Intel's solution runs cooler.
Then Intel will have to contend with other challenges, including graphics chips from Nvidia (NVDA). In a recent conversation, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang declared: "The $1,000-plus notebook Toshiba Satellite L100 battery is over." The company is jazzing up netbooks with its Ion platform, which pairs Intel's bare-bones $40 Atom processor chip with a robust Nvidia graphics adapter. My prediction is that the Ion platform will prove Huang's point, leading to even more powerful executive-class notebooks with racy graphics, inexpensive microprocessors, and sub-$1,000 price tags.
Port selection on the A605 is good for an ultra-portable notebook, including three USB ports, VGA, LAN, audio jacks, and eSATA through a combo port. While HDMI or DisplayPort might be handy, many business users still use VGA for projectors and it is more than capable for connecting the notebook Toshiba Satellite L10 battery to a secondary monitor. The bottom of the notebook also features a docking connector, for further port expansion.
Therefore, the first netbook has to be the so-called $100 laptop: the OLPC (One Laptop per Child). The OLPC, with its 366MHz, AMD Geode GX2-500 CPU, 128MBs of RAM and, this is the important part, 802.11g Wi-Fi networking. It's also noteworthy that today's OLPC runs XO 8.2 a Linux distribution with the Sugar interface.

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