Entries Tagged 'PC & Laptops' ↓

After almost a year of waiting, Windows XP is finally in OLPC (One Laptop Per Child). This child friendly device was originally developed with Linux as its OS. Although it doesn’t really matter to the kids who will be receiving them, users here have been clamoring for an XP version of the device that should be integrated to the market. It’s also a nice marketing strategy for Microsoft as they show their compassionate side to the kids. Microsoft, through Bill Gates already has a Classmate PC with an XP on it so XP in OLPC XO is a great addition to the device.

The reason why XP has been delayed for almost a year is that Microsoft has to build new sets of drivers that could fit to the very small storage capacity of the XO. With this version of XO, the mesh networking may not be available. Although XP has been squeezed to the bare essentials, it still wouldn’t fit to the 1GB storage capacity. Instead, expect that XO will be released with a preloaded 2GB SD card. The operating system along with the preloaded applications will take up 1.5GB. Since users will have a total of 3GB of storage capacity, they will still have 1.5GB for their personal documents. Besides, you still have USB ports so that you can have more storage capacity.

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Every now and then, Dell likes to come out with a brand new laptop that doesn’t just sport better specs but better artwork as its cover. The project is called Dell Art House, these special laptops are designed by artists who has the innovation and funk that will attract the younger market. This time is no different as they sought the help of Mike Ming – a Brooklyn based artist to design their latest offering, the Dell 1525.

Honestly, I don’t have the slightest idea who Mike Ming is. So I Googled the artist and what came out are different artworks that are very impressive. I’m no artist but Mike Ming knows how to capture the imagination of his spectators.

On the design area, Dell 1525 comes in four designs with eight different colors. If you think the art work shows the artist’s creativity, check out some of their names: “Sea Sky” and “Bunch O Surfers”.

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SSD (Secured Storage Data) is thought to be the next best thing in hard drive technology for mobile computers. Even though it’s tougher, it doesn’t reach its market appeal yet. Highly expensive and relatively slow, SSD is still on its baby-phase: It might be years before we could see a 320GB SSD that will not cost us more than a thousand dollars.

For now Hitachi is banking on the good old hard drive. Called the Travelstar 7K320, this laptop hard drive will show you that the soon to be old is not that bad especially for your laptop. Aside from 320GB of storage capacity, the 7200 RPM should turn any laptop junkies head into considering this hard drive. According to their recent press release, the 7K320 promises 60% increase of storage capacity, 12% increase of performance. All of these are possible while driving down 22% of power consumption. With this speed, data transfer is also at its peak. Standard data transfer is 3GB/s while the encrypted transfer is up to 1GB/s. If that speed will never amaze you, nothing will.

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Computers and portable electronics are not the only gadgets that get a makeover on a regular basis; quite often you’ll find that routers are released with a different look as well. When you consider the Linksys router, a router that can be found in many of the different homes and offices around the country, a new design is bound to attract attention.

Linksys has created a router with a design that almost makes it look like the windshield of an ultra-modern car. If you consider the cars that you see in futuristic movies and the windshield designs that those cars have, a miniature version of that represents the front of the Linksys router with a slope that starts at the top and extends downwards to the front of the router where all the displays are.

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The Everex Cloudbook Max is equipped with a VIA C-7 CPU, 1600 megahertz processor, VIA Chrome9 graphics card, and a Vista operating system with a 8.9″ 1024×600 display. Clocking in at 2048 MB of RAM, 80 GB standard hard drive, this new machine weighs just 1000 kilograms, and is only 240 millimeters wide, 175 millimeters in height, and 27 millimeters deep. Holding one SD card slot, three USB2.0 slots, VGA, analogue video out, 10/100 ethernet jack, the Everex also has 902.11b/g wireless, BT2.0 wireless, and Wi Max, which can be used on Sprint’s XOHM network, alongside integrated GPS and integrated front and rear cameras, both coming in at 2.0 megapixels, right around the resolution of a decent cell-phone camera.

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The Intel Classmate 2, one of many in the lines of the smaller sized laptops, has some pretty solid specs. It will come with a 9-inch LCD display, six-cell battery, 512MB RAM, 30GB HDD, integrated webcam, 802.11b/g WiFi support, Windows XP or Linux OS and the Intel Celeron M processor. However, despite upgrading to the larger screen, Intel kept the resolution the same size as its’ predecessor, keeping it as a measely 800 by 480 pixels. Future versions will move to Intel’s Atom platform, however there is no official date yet set for that upgrade. Hot off the presses, the Classmate 2 went live for sale but a few days ago on April 2nd. Geared towards the younger generation, primarily those between 6 and 12 years of age, the laptop comes standard with Windows XP and MS Office, giving them experience with the platform and software suite they’ll likely encounter in the near future of their computing us.

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Asus and Intel teamed up recently to create the newest version of the Eee series PC’s. Dubbed “Eee” because of their slogan, “Easy to work, easy to learn, easy to play”, it sports an 8.9″ display, 1024×600 pixel screen, 1 GB of ram standard, 9-12GB solid-state flash hard drive, and a larger trackpad than it’s predecessor, the 7 series, with two finger scrolling using a pinching motion. The Window’s-read, Linux-capable Eee will also be eventually powered by Intel’s Atom processor, with future options for a bigger hard drive. Set for a release in April of this year, the device is inexpensive, coming in at around $500. However the main issues with this device are that the keyboard area is a bit cramped together, making it difficult to type, small screen size, small screen resolution, small hard drive space…well, I’m sure you get the picture.

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Computers have evolved into something that every consumer wants to get their hands on. The Eee PC (easy to learn, easy to play, and easy to work) is a computer that is smaller than a laptop but bigger than a pocket PC. It weighs 0.9 kilograms and has a 7” screen that runs at 800×480 resolutions. The crystal clear screen makes it easy for you to see everything that you are doing so no worries there.

Naturally you can expect that the keyboard is small in size making it difficult for people with larger fingers to type. Overall though most people found it was the same as typing on a laptop.

There are three versions that you can buy. The Eee PC 4G model – which is fully featured, and the ‘lighter’, less-expensive, forthcoming 4G Surf, and 2G Surf models. It has everything that you would want and need including a graphical variety of Linux, Windows OS, Open-Office applications, web browser, Skype, and around 5 Linux games.

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With all of the technology available to us, we sometimes wonder what people, including children, do in countries that are not so privileged as us and cannot afford the wonderful technology at our fingertips. Well, we wonder no more! There is now a laptop that costs only one hundred dollars that will soon be available to students in South Africa. The XO machine is scheduled for release in October.

The organization responsible for bringing these machines to the hands of needy children is the One Laptop Per Child organization. The process took five years of development and collaboration to be created into what it is today.

This wonderful device will allow for more education to be brought to these students. Some critics have suggested that these machines don’t hold all of the modern technology that laptops in this country might due to their low cost of production. But the emphasis really is on education and therefore, the laptop holds everything the student will need.

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How about enjoy digital and analog worlds together in your living room at your disposal? Well, AMD targets people who utilize the computer as their major means of entertainment, and this is the time to launch a wonder range of ATI TV products that bring both the analog and digital worlds at a single platform. Both the products look a lot like a USB flash drive that can be plugged into your desktop or notebook to enjoy the world of high definition TV (HDTV) into the soothing environment of your living room, along with digital video recording facilities. What are the two devices being lined up today? They are ATI TV Wonder 650 Combo PCIe and the ATI TV Wonder 600 USB, grand products with great new features.

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Popularity: 5% [?]