Archive for July, 2006

Acer today announced the North American availability of its new 20.1-inch wide-screen Aspire 9800 laptop computer, combining “cutting-edge multimedia PC performance, HD-DVD technology, IP-based communication facilities, and analog and DVB-T hybrid TV-tuner, audio and gaming functionalities”.

Acer Aspire 9800 incorporates Intel Centrino Duo mobile processing technology, NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600 graphic chipsets, up to 4GB DDR2 in system memory, and 240GB Intel Matrix RAID ready SATA hard drives.
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Toshiba Satellite P105-S921 gaming laptop features NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS Graphics Card with 256MB of graphics memory, 17-inch diagonal widescreen display, Intel Core Duo processor, a 160GB SATA hard drive. Here you can find Toshiba Satellite P105-S921 review quotes with links to the full stories.

Toshiba Satellite P105-S921 review by PC Magazine
Overall, the Toshiba Satellite P105-S921 is one of the more affordable gaming notebooks in the market right now. You get a zippy dual-core processor and a third-tier nVidia graphics card that produced surprisingly swift gaming performance. Throw in the blue LEDs around the speakers and touchpad, and suddenly mobile gamers have a very compelling system.

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Apple has initiated a worldwide battery exchange program for certain batteries that were sold for use with 15-inch MacBook Pro laptops from February 2006 through May 2006.

“We recently discovered that some 15-inch MacBook Pro batteries supplied to Apple do not meet our high standards for battery performance. To give our users the best experience possible, we will replace these batteries for customers free of charge”, Apple published.
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Asus announced that the company’s complete laptop PC line is Intel Core 2 Duo (Merom) ready. “The notebook series based on Intel’s new mobile computing platform delivers increased performance for multitasking with longer battery supply and extensive wireless connection”, says press release.

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Dell laptops featuring new Intel Core 2 Duo Mobile (Merom) processors will be available at the end of the following month, Dell announced in its press release dedicated to the new XPS 410, Dimension 9200 and Precision 390 Workstation Core 2 Duo desktop computers.

“Dell will offer Core 2 Duo mobile processors in a variety of Dell Precision, Latitude, Inspiron and XPS mobile platforms at the end of August”, says computer manufacturer.

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Fujitsu Computer Systems Corporation today announced that its Fujitsu LifeBook N6400 Series desktop replacement laptop, the flagship of its consumer line, will be among the first of its notebooks to be powered by the new Intel Core 2 Duo (Merom) processor. The LifeBook N6400 Series notebook is scheduled for availability during Q4, 2006.

The Windows Vista-capable Fujitsu LifeBook N6400, a Media Center laptop, features 17-inch display and trademark integrated sub-woofer and built-in stereo sound system.

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Intel today officially unveiled its new processor lineup including 10 models - five laptop-use Intel Core 2 Duo Mobile CPUs (Merom) and five Core 2 Duo desktop processors (Conroe). According to Intel, Merom-based laptops are expected to hit the market at the end of August. Official prices of the new laptop CPUs were not disclosed.

All five laptop processor are branded as T-series Core 2 Duo processors, and their core frequencies vary from 1.66GHz to 2.33GHz. (more…)

Samsung Electronics announced that a 4GB solid state disk (SSD), now being readied for production, will also serve as a high speed NAND flash cache for laptops and desktop computers in conjunction with the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system.

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Dell recently started it’s corporate blog called dellone2one.com. One of posts is dedicaded to Dell’s infamous “flaming notebook” from Osaka. Dell thinks that it was a fault in a lithium ion battery cell, which caused laptop to burn.

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Lenovo recently lowered the price of its ThinkPad laptops in the US, with its X60 model being slashed by 33%, according to the Chinese-language website Sina.com. The ThinkPad X60 is now priced at US$1,399, down from the original price tag of US$2,099, indicated the website.

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The world’s number two chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) confirmed that it is buying graphics and chipset specialist and the largest graphics chipmaker for laptops ATI Technologies in a $5.4 billion deal.

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NVIDIA is working on SLI Power technology combining an integrated and discrete graphics cards for laptops that switch seamlessly between power savings and performance with no computer reboot needed, Laptop Logic reports.

“Obviously this is easier said than done and the feature is still being developed. We hear that the software interface is being rather difficult, getting Windows to switch video device drivers on a whim and all. There is no word on when this may be completed, but we wouldn’t be surprised to see this around Vista time, says Laptop Logic “Off the Record” report.

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News Forge recently reviewed R Cubed LS1250-L Linux laptop. It’s a 12.1-inch screen notebook built on the ASUS Z33A Platform. The LS1250-L can be configured with Intel’s Celeron or Pentium M processors. The preinstalled Fedora Core 5 Linux or Open SUSE 10.1 operating systems and Open Office (very similar to MS Office, but free) are included in R Cubed LS1250-L price, which starts at $1,166.40.

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Clevo M570U laptop already fully supports new Intel Core 2 Duo Mobile (Merom) processors. The M570U specifications say that it can be configured with Core 2 Duo Mobile T7200 CPU, while support for T7400, T7600 and T5600 Merom processors is not available yet.

Taiwanese Clevo M570U can be found on the USA market under the name Sager NP5760 and Sager NP5750. These laptops shipp with Intel Core Duo (Yonah) processors, but, according to the post at Notebook Review Forum, Sager has already successfully tested the Merom processor in the NP5760 and NP5750 and they work just fine even without a BIOS update.

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Intel started shipping Core 2 Duo mobile processors (Merom) to laptop manufacturers, according to report published on Chinese site HKEPC and Intel’s recent Financial Report.

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