Tech Wizard

Yesterday I told you guys about the competitor of Asus EEE PC from HP and as I told you that this market has a lot of potential and many companies are soon going to come up to challenge the EEE PC and here I present to you another competitor of EEE PC from none other but the PC and laptop manufacturing giant Dell. Dell is soon going to enter the sub-notebook market with an 8.9” Compal Manufactured Sub-Notebooks. Sources say that Dell is going to start shipping this laptop from early June.

The launch of Dell’s Sub Notebook will also coincide with the availability of Intel Atom Processors which are specialized mobile processors and have TDP as low as 8W.The Founder and CEO of Dell, Michael Dell when asked a question about HP’s recently announced 2133 Mini-Note said “We will introduce a similar laptop”.
Dell will have to face stiff competition in the market by the time it launches it notebook in June from Asus Eee PC 900 and HP 2133.

When ASUS had launched its EEE PC, no one had expected it to be such a huge hit. It became so popular that it even forced Microsoft to extend the life shell of Windows XP Home by another 2 years. Now other manufacturers after seeing the potential of ASUS EEE PC are trying not to be left out in the cold.
So the first competitor of Asus EEE PC has been launched by HP, in the form of HP 2133 Mini-Note PC.

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With Blu-ray reaching the higher end laptops, Dell is quite serious about making Blu-ray available in its laptops. Recently, Dell launched its Inspiron 1525 with in built Blu-ray for just $879. The notebook comes with a Blu-ray combo drive and most of the other specsremain the same. These include a Core2Duo T5550 processor (1.83Ghz), a 15″ screen and a HDMI port. Other features which are not so fancy include 1GB RAM, a 80GB HDD and a GMA X3100 graphics accelerator. The notebook might upset those who run resource hungry applications or any gaming freak but considering the face that it offers inbuilt Blu-ray just for $879, it’s a bang for your buck. So if you are a download junkie and always run out of space, just go ahead and grab it.

Recently three laptops in the LaVie J series namely the LJ750/LH, the LJ700/LH and the LJ730/LG were introduced by NEC. While the notebooks are build with Intel’s low-voltage processors, nearly all of them feature the same configuration.

They feature Intel’s GM965 Express chipset with built-in video capabilities, a DVD burner, and a 12.1-inch wide-screen display that can work at a maximum resolution of 1,280×800. These notebooks also offer a wide range of network connectivity options, such as Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n, Wireless USB, Bluetooth 2.0, Type2 PC card slot, SD card slot, USB 2.0 ×2, Gigabit Ethernet and voice input/output. Some noticeable difference is in the form of memory and hard drive capacity. The LJ750/LH offers 6.7 hours of continuous battery operation which is quite a good feature.

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The HP laptops are now in a danger for the back end breach. A serious security flaw is detected in the HP laptops that run the info center software. The error is that one of the active X control on this software uses three types of methods that are insecure and leave the user venerable to various remote code execution and also remote registry manipulation based attacks. This is potentially dangerous for your system.

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WOW, LG finally launched its latest laptop: XNOTE P300. Comes with a super sexy model WOOPS I mean great design, and now the main technical info :Well this laptop will take 13.3” on your lap and weight around 1.3 Kg and the Display comes with a LED-backlight Maximum resolution of 1280×800. (more…)

Dell apparently is all set to go totally green, carbon neutral, by the year 2008. Mr. Dell himself pledged that. There’s been a lot of fuss over sometime past about this Ozone layer thing and its rising to a crescendo recently. Everybody is eager to lend their acoustic power to the whole thing!

What Mr. Dell said and apparently big boys are paying attention is “ There’s been a time in history of business where it’s more important for organizations of all sizes to partner together to positively impact the Earth that we all share… It’s not enough for Dell to be an environmental leader. We also need to partner with our customers … to dramatically improve our own customers’ environmental impacts”

Dell plans to create more energy efficient products and will utilize other energy efficient sources during production. Those measures seem a bit ambiguous to us—let’s see a completely biodegradable laptop made from nothing but recycled toilet rolls, then we would be impressed. Very, very impressed.

Acer has unveiled new, revamped models in both the Aspire and the Ferrari lines. The Aspire models sport a reworked Gemstone styling. The 7720G will have Santa Rosa Core 2 Duo at 2.2 GHz, up to 4 GB of main memory, 200 GB HDD, a 17 inch screen at 1440×900 resolution, ATI Radeon HD2300 graphics card with up to 1 GB of HyperMemory, dual layer DVD burner and a TV tuner. 7720G will retail at $2,988.

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The $100 laptop—which was already up to a hefty $175, has gotten yet another price bump to $188. A spokesman says they’re committed to keeping the price from rising above $190, and probably below $200 if at all possible. It’s very strange that the price keeps rising, seeing as it’s been, what, two years since the project was announced, plus they’ve gotten more orders from companies so they can ramp up bulk production. Shouldn’t hardware prices have dropped instead of risen ?

[via Yahoo News]