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.

2009年5月9日星期六

Many laptops today can run off two batteries

This isn't my formal review, but I'm going on record to say that I love this keyboard. It has wide, flat keys similar to the ones I've come to dig on the Gateway UC7807u and HP Mini 1000. A critical difference: The keys slope down, creating a little lip for your fingers to tell when you've pressed each key. And a tiny touch-inductive control panel consisting of basic multimedia shortcuts lines the top.
Many laptops today can run off two batteries. When the juice from the primary laptop battery runs dry, the auxiliary kicks in. In most cases, the primary battery comes with the laptop; the second is an optional purchase.
These mini notebooks aren't meant to be a primary computer, the way a laptop can be. They run on less powerful processors than Sony VGP-BPS2A battery; lack an internal optical drive; and are primarily designed with Web browsing, e-mail, and basic office productivity tasks in mind.
In battery life tests, the R610 wins back a couple of points, lasting approximately 3 hours on a charge. For a larger all-purpose machine, that's fairly average.
"What [ChangeWave's] data shows is that consumer sentiment is improving, and will allow Apple A1079 battery to sustain support for its value proposition," concluded Abramsky.
Whether Apple actually wants to compete with Acer and Asus is another matter. It could just use the more modern CULV technology to redo the kludge that is the MacBook Air.
I've been asked a reasonable question: "How big a screen means you're not a netbook Samsung R45-K00D battery any more?" The answer, of course, is that it depends how you define a netbook. And there are at least three key definitions.
For Ben Heckendorn, that size evolution came too late for some models — but with a little creative engineering, he's figured out how to give yesterday's computers today's form factor.
Whether you're away from the office for an hour, a day or a week, the last thing you want to do when you get back is fumble with a slew of cables in order to get your notebook Samsung R45-K006 battery connected. A docking station can make it a lot quicker and easier to reconnect to your wired network, human-size keyboard and mouse, easy-on-the eyes external monitor, printer and other peripherals.

2009年5月5日星期二

NEWP has announced that next Thursday, May 7, 2009, the company will release results for its first quarter ended April 4, 2009

An alternative to a PC netbook is an Apple MacBook. The software it comes with will make it easy to manage her digital life — photos, video, e-mail, etc. Plus, the magnetic power cord is handy if she has small children running around the house. It simply disconnects from the computer with a slight tug, meaning the laptop battery doesn’t come crashing to the floor.
See, it's a sad (and expensive) fact of life: You're lucky to get 18-24 months from a Dell NT379 battery before it loses a good chunk of its charge capacity (meaning it no longer powers your laptop for as long as it used to).
The typical netbook weighs about 3 pounds, has a 9- to 10-inch screen, and costs $300 to $400. But which ones truly rate? Consumer Reports tested six netbooks to find out. All of them performed well enough at Web surfing and e-mail, but there are some major differences in areas such as ergonomics and Dell IM-M150261-FR battery life.
"Large businesses and government agencies rely on the availability of information, and its loss can have a profound impact, including lower employee productivity and delayed customer service intervals, as well as brand and financial implications," said Nancy Gofus, senior vice president - global business products, Verizon.
"Our newly expanded suite of remote backup and restore services delivers cost-effective solutions that ease the burden on IT departments by providing an automated means of storing and accessing critical data and offering an important business-continuity tool."
"We are proud that Gartner has recognized Stonesoft in the network IPS appliances market," said Paul Johnson, president of Stonesoft Inc. "We believe this evaluation validates the increasing awareness of the strengths of the StoneGate IPS solution. Our commitment is to deliver the next generation technologies needed to optimize the security, availability and manageability of today's critical networks."
The IBM Power Rewards(1) program offers money for migration services or software to customers that switch from competitive systems to IBM 02K6769 battery. Customers can use the migration services to move workloads running on Sun SPARC-based servers to IBM's AIX, Linux, or i operating environments.
"As traditional Dell HD438 battery appliance-based security solutions continue to become more complex, companies look for more cost-effective, high-performing and scalable ways to manage their security infrastructure," said Jim Freeze, Crossbeam's chief marketing officer.
"Crossbeam's approach to security consolidation and virtualization has created increasing demand for our X-Series platform. The ability to easily provision and scale best-of-breed security applications within a consolidated and virtualized infrastructure is a major advancement for the industry and a competitive advantage for Crossbeam."
Newport Corporation (Nasdaq: NEWP) has announced that next Thursday, May 7, 2009, the company will release results for its first quarter ended April 4, 2009. The company also said President and Chief Executive Officer Robert J. Phillippy and Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer Charles F. Cargile will host an investor conference call that day at 5:00 p.m. Eastern time (2:00 p.m. Pacific time) to review the company's financial results and business outlook.

2009年5月3日星期日

Spoil your dad this Father's Day!

The world's largest chip maker is in its research lab trying to figure out ways of not only cutting the power consumption of its computer chips and the electronics devices they go into, but also harvesting more of the ambient energy around us to extend the laptop battery life of products.
IT'S good to know that in these days of hi-tech living when the latest gizmos and gadgets are must-have accessories, a little bit of old-fashioned common sense prevails.
Want a way to turn your Nintendo DS Lite gaming system from a portable gaming platform into a multitasking device capable of getting you around town without the fear of getting lost? How about a Ranger GPS system?
Spoil your dad this Father's Day! Sony UK reveals some great gifts to show your old man how much you care - from cutting edge TVs and MP3 players to an exciting array of cameras, photo accessories and designer laptops Acer Aspire 1621 battery.
The Bahamas Weather Conference formally began this morning with a beautiful rendition of the Bahamian national anthem. The Star Spangled Banner is known as a difficult song to sing, but the Bahamian anthem trumps it. The woman singing it went from deep lows to glass-shattering highs.
How quickly we have forgotten. Yesterday’s front-page headline is today’s page 13 filler, consigned to the back of the newspaper as something sexier or more pressing forces its way to page one — above the fold.
Last year, the mouse turned 40. And, like other gadgets, it has acquired many advanced features over the years. If you have been using the same old mouse on your computer Acer Aspire 1622 battery for a long time, then you might be surprised to learn the new features that a new mouse sports. Optical and laser technologies are fast replacing the rolling ball that used to adorn the underbelly of the old mouse.
The gadgets you love don't always love you back—at least when it comes to Acer Aspire 1623 battery life. But you can get more from your laptop Acer Aspire 1624 battery, your iPod, your phone, and other devices with these 10 techniques.
Wave Systems Corp. (NASDAQ: WAVX) and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., have collaborated to give professionals on the go the ultimate in hard drive security. Along with blazing speed, ultra-fast boot-up and silent operation, Samsung's new self-encrypting SSDs automatically encrypt information as it's saved to the drive, an industry first for SSDs.
Lenovo's IdeaPad Y430A is positioned as a mid-range mainstream consumer market product. Offering a highly cost-effective configuration, it features a simplistic design, with 45nm Core processor and graphics card. The price is now 5,500 yuan, which has come down RMB500 from last month.

2009年4月27日星期一

Acer aims to be one of the top five smart-phone makers within five years

“We intend to have devices that will take advantage of multiple platforms. One of the pain points for users around the world is ‘how do I basically port my environment from one device to another?’
“Because we have a suite of products in the mobile-data space that covers the whole spectrum, we can offer synchronisation between all devices.”
Acer is planning to release up to ten mobile phones before the year is out, though most of them are likely to use Microsoft’s Windows Mobile software.
Acer officially announced its smart-phone ambitions at the Mobile World Congress trade show in February. The announcement came nearly a year after the company acquired Taiwanese handset maker, E-Ten. Aspire 1660 battery 's first phones--the ones shipping in several weeks--will use Microsoft's ( MSFT - news - people ) Windows Mobile operating system and feature widgets for quick access to the Web and e-mail. The line, called Tempo, currently includes four handsets, including several touch-screen models. Executives have said that Acer aims to be one of the top five smart-phone makers within five years.
I count AC adapters. When I walk into a Starbucks the first thing I check out is not the blend of the day, but the number (and the brand) of the laptop batteries being used by the fellow java chuggers, along with if they are plugged into the limited wall sockets.
So here we are in New York for the first leg of Acer 2010 battery 's seasonal refresh. The Taiwanese PC company is making a really big deal of the line-up, 20 products grouped into three areas - notebooks / netbooks / and all-in-one PCs and slotted into three brands: Acer, Gateway (Packard Bell in Europe) and eMachines.
Have you ever wondered why computer Aspire 2012 batteries do not last as long as you want them to? Go figure: if gadgets-on-the-go (a.k.a. notebooks and netbooks) cannot last that long on the road without plugging them to an electric socket, it severely limits the power of mobile computing.
At one inch thick, the new netbooks are sleeker than Acer's other Aspire Ones. They also have "multi-gesture" touchpads that let users page through documents and enlarge Web pages with the flick of a finger.
One model, with an 11.6-inch screen, is larger than Acer's current offerings. Acer says this netbook Acer battery 2013, with its high-definition screen and Dolby sound software, is particularly suited to watching videos.
Acer's interest in the country shows the growing importance of the Chinese market because of its number of potential subscribers, especially as the mobile market is expected to see a decline this year. While the majority of Chinese subscribers use low-end cell phones for calling and texting, there's a growing demand for sophisticated handsets capable of surfing the Web, sending e-mail, and playing multimedia files. This demand is expected to increase as the country rolls out its high-speed 3G network.

2009年4月24日星期五

LiCoxNiyMnzO2 has very high capacity of 180mAh/g and above

LiCoxNiyMnzO2, as a cathode material, has very high capacity of 180mAh/g and above, and is very promising. In addition, it's safe, of low prices, of good charge-discharge performance, and its electrolyte is very compatible. It can be used for small-sized telecoms equipment and small-sized power tools and vehicles, even in field of great power.
But Li-CoxNiyMnzO2 has its shortcomings too. 1) It's very demanding about the conditions under which it is produced. 2) The discharge voltage is low, about 3.55V. 3) The density is lower than that of LiCoO2. 4) It requires high charging voltage, about 4.5V, higher than that of LiCoO2. But Li-CoxNiyMnzO2 indeed has superior high capacity and safety. Therefore it will be a big player in the market in the next few years.
While detailing the supply and demand, niche markets, application market and other aspects of China´s Power Li-ion laptop battery industry, this report compares the performance of the products and the operational performance of China´s major Power Li-ion battery producers. In addition, this report forecasts the development trend of the country´s Power Li-ion battery industry and analyzes the opportunities and risk as an investment.
To be fair, Original Sony VGP-BPS13/S Battery’s “Lifestyle PCs” look nothing like what is already available in the market. The Vaio P is unbelievably compact, with dimensions (245x19.8x120 mm) just a tad bigger than a standard business letter envelope and a lot slimmer than your average Tagalog romance paperback. The ultraslim form factor notwithstanding, this baby packs a very vivid widescreen, 8-inch, 1600x768-resolution UWXGA display and an almost full-sized perfectly usable keyboard, all wrapped up in a gorgeous glossy hard plastic chasis so solidly constructed that it doesn’t feel plasticky at all.
The credits available for Acer battery TravelMate 2410 makers in Michigan total $555 million, and individual companies can claim up to $25 million annually for four years. They have to agree to open a new plant and create at least 300 jobs.
Such “regulating power” to help balance grid fluctuations is valuable – recently about $42 an hour for one megawatt’s worth. One car can’t do that much, of course. But 60 cars might – and still remain charged up enough to easily get where they need to go.
The top edge of the Stream includes a Mini-USB port for connecting to a Mac or PC, an SD card slot that supports SD and SDHC cards up to 16GB, and a power adapter connection. Humanware includes a power adapter with the Stream, which is a good thing since the internal battery doesn't charge over USB. The Acer battery TravelMate 2500 reaches full charge in about four hours, offering up to 15 hours of playback time. The battery is also replaceable through a compartment on the back, making it possible to keep multiple batteries on hand or to easily replace old batteries after they wear out.
"When you drive your car at 16 km/h (10 mph), to go faster you just push the accelerator," said Kang. "But if the laptop batteries can't discharge power quickly, there is no acceleration. With this new technology, you can release the power quickly for whatever you need, whether a car or any other application."

2009年4月22日星期三

The aggressive plans illustrate China's growing commitment to electrified vehicles

Toroid transformers, the highest reliability power conversion technology available, with power factor correction circuitry enables PFC greater than 0.95 in 120V and 277V applications. Ideal for large industrial installations, Albeo's power conversion creates the most efficient, reliable LED lighting system available.
The newest white high-efficiency LED laptop battery's with a Color Rendering Index (CRI) of 92 are optionally available in select C-Series light fixtures. Additionally, Albeo fixtures can be upgraded to operate with 0 to 10V control signals for building wide energy conservation via standard control systems.
The aggressive plans illustrate China's growing commitment to electrified vehicles and its strategy to support auto makers developing various types of electric cars and components with research subsidies. The government sees environmental upsides and a chance for its car makers to gain ground on foreign rivals, since electric Sony Battery VGP-BPL2 vehicles are simpler to engineer than gasoline-engine ones.
Electric vehicles are "definitely affordable and environmentally friendly technology, and we think there's a huge potential market in China for them," Li Shufu, Geely's chairman, said in an interview Monday.
The couple, who married about a month after they met, was arguing in their hotel room at the Country Inn & Suites. When the husband attempted to throw his ring out the window, his wife wrapped herself around his back, according to the arrest report.
Check Your Smoke Detectors: After inserting a fresh IBM Thinkpad A20 Battery in your smoke detector, check to make sure the smoke detector itself is working by pushing the safety test button and check your detectors on a MONTHLY basis.
Within months, he had acquired crucial political and financial backing for Better Place. Peres’s support helped; the president wanted Israel to be the company’s first test market, and Peres began working as an icebreaker inside the government, getting skeptical politicians to begin designing tax incentives and cheap debt to finance the firm. “I convinced the ministers,” Peres said. “I helped him to break through.” Peres also brokered an introduction to Carlos Ghosn, the C.E.O. of Renault-Nissan, who agreed to make the first cars with compatible Toshiba Satellite A85 Laptop Batteries .
Agassi received his first investment — $200 million from Israel Corporation, a firm that owns many oil refineries — after a single conversation with the C.E.O., Idan Ofer. “He didn’t have to sell the CO2 story,” Ofer told me. “Climate change is real. The CO2 equation has gone haywire. And coming from the oil business, I know that oil is becoming more and more difficult to find — I mean, this planet, how much oil can you have?”
The credits available for laptop batteries makers in Michigan total $555 million, and individual companies can claim up to $25 million annually for four years. They have to agree to open a new plant and create at least 300 jobs.