Firewire 1600 Cable

The 1394 Trade Association is already talking up FireWire S3200, but Symwave is taking baby steps, demonstrating a 1.6Gbps system known as S1600 (shocking) that’s backwards-compatible with FireWire 800 and 400 this week at a conference in China. That’s great and all — transferring 1000 four megapixel images in five seconds sure sounds like a good time — but speeds like that probably aren’t going to cut it when FireWire 800 devices are already thin on the ground, everyone’s looking forward to S3200, and the 4.8Gbps USB 3.0 spec is already making appearances on schedule for a launch in 2010. Not to mention that Wireless USB 1.1’s target speed is 1.0Gbps — you know we’ll take a slight speed hit if we can ditch the cables.

HP 2133 Mini-note PC

HP recently launched Full- function 2133 Mini-notebook PC. Students will be benefitted by the latest launch as they can now use it in classrooms and at home. Compact, sleek and light notebook features wireless, security and multimedia capabilities. The enhanced performance and augmented mobile experience adds to the usability.

While clear coating over Durakeys protects the printed characters and letters, the anodized aluminum shell makes it more rugged. Students can now access internet through the Wi-Fi Certified WLAN even at hotspots. User friendly touchpad and keyboard along with 8.9” diagonal WXGA scratch resistant display makes it more usable.

HP in collaboration with Microsoft has developed an online community Teacher Experience Exchange to discuss, learn and share with other people. Bearing an unimaginable price of $499, the laptop is a boon for education market.

source: engadget

MyminiPC

Everex’s new MyMiniPC is extremely tiny and won’t be a gaming powerhouse, but what it does is get the (office) job done efficiently and effectively without much hassle, thanks to the following specifications :-

• Intel Pentium T2130 1.86GHz processor
• 512MB RAM
• 120GB hard drive
• DVD±RW drive
• FireWire and four USB 2.0 ports
• DVI and S-Video out
• Gigabit Ethernet

It will be powered by gOS “Space” and retails for half a grand each.

source: engadget

The Jisus laptop

A strange laptop has appeared from the heavens called the Jisus laptop by Van Der Led. It features 5 cool colors, an 800 x 480, 8.9-inch LCD display, a 1GHz Loongson CPU , 512MB of RAM, 4GB of flash storage, 802.11b/g, stereo speakers, and is Ubuntu pre-installed. The Jisus will be released for €299 in Europe on April 25th. Check out the silent video of the laptops with specs after the break.

source: engadet

LaCie’s latest Neil Poulton external HDD

LaCie’s no stranger to getting designers to fashion up external hard drive designs, what with Sam Hecht, Ora-Ito, Karim Rashid, GmbH and the LEGO guy (actually also Ora-Ito) lending their name to designs. This latest one by Neil Poulton looks like the 2001 monolith sans naked monkeys, but with an eerie blue ambient light on the front emanated by an LED on the bottom. You’d normally have to pay some kind of huge price premium for designs, but LaCie’s $149 for 500GB seems pretty reasonable.

CTL’s 2go PC

CTL already manufactured its Netbook, a little laptop based on Intel Netbook platform. The Netbook manufactured by CTL is called 2go PC. Comes with a 9-inch screen, 2go PC has 800 x 480 resolution. Build based on Intel 915GMS chipset chipset, 2go pc laptop is powered by a900 MHz Intel Celeron M processor, 512 MB RAM ( upgradable up to 1 GB) and 40 GB HDD. The CTL 2go PC Laptop is running Windows XP OS while a lavor of Linux is another option.

Pegasus 210 ultraportable by Rock

Measures 296 x 209 x 14 ~ 30mm and weighs at just 1.2kg, Rock’s compact 12-inch Pegasus 210 laptop is powered by a 800Mhz Intel A110 processor (400Mhz, 512kb cache), a 1GB of DDR2 main memory, an 80GB of 4200rpm hard drive, and an Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 engine. With an amazing 6 hours battery life and an integrated 802.11a/g/n WiFI, this notebook is an ideal travelling companion. Or, if you don’t want to live any single minute without internet connection, just purchase the additional high-speed 3G / HSDPA module, providing up to 3.6Mbs of world wide web experience.

New Eee PC 900: ultra mobility again!!

One of the most awaited laptop, Asus Eee PC 900, is expected to come next month. Configured with 8.9-inch screen, the new 900 features 8GB flash storage with Windows XP but users have an option to opt 20GB of storage with Xandros Linux. And as you want to know, the expected price set at $499.

Source: engadget

True mobility from Toshiba: the first laptop with 128GB SSD

Toshiba introduces a new notebook with the largest solid state disk on the market in Japan with the Dynabook SS RX. 

 

The Toshiba Dynabook SS RX (RX1/TAE) has a cool 128GB SSD. The price for the end consumer version is not set yet, but the corresponding enterprise model with 128GB SSD has a list price of 555,660 Yen which converts to about $5,500.Over 5 grand for a notebook is hard to stomach for most of us. Other features of the Toshiba Dynabook SS RX notebook series include 12.1 inch LED backlit screen, 2GB RAM, Intel Core 2 Duo U7600 CPU and 802.11n Wifi. The new Toshiba Dynabook SS RX notebook will start shipping on March 25th in Japan.  

 

Source: engadget 

Macbook Air Killer: Thinkpad X300

Lenovo is lunching first Macbook Air Killer from the PC side. Thinkpad X300 has 1.13kg of weight and it is 18.6mm thin.

Spec:

13.3 inch LED WXGA display (1440×900)

RAM up to 4GB

Gigabit Ethernet, IEEE802.11n draft, Bluetooth, WIRELESS USB, WIRELESS WAN

64GB of SSD

DVD Multi-drive

3 of USB2.0, ExpressCard slot/34

Ultra Nav (TrackPoint+touchpad)

Stereo Speaker

As I just wrote, X300 has almost everything in it which Macbook Air does not. If this Thinkpad runs Mac OS X, I definitely get this rather than Macbook Air.

Source: GIZMODO