TOSHIBA LAUNCHES NEW BUSINESS CLASS NOTEBOOKS

Toshiba has made new additions to its Satellite Pro and Protégé line of business notebooks. While all the new notebooks offer support for Windows 7, most of them come pre-loaded with Windows XP.

The new additions to the Satellite Pro line have models with 13.3, 15.6 and 17.3 inch display sizes. Prices start at $529. The new Satellite Pro U500 has a 13.3 inch multi-touch screen display. Prices start at $999. The L450 has a 15.6 inch display and starts at $529. The L550 is the bigger model with 17.3 inch display. It starts at $999. All Satellite Pro notebooks run on Intel Core 2 Duo processors with Windows 7.

The Toshiba Protégé M750 is a tablet PC with a better Core 2 Duo processor. It has a 12.1 inch LED-backlit display that accepts both touch and pen input. It comes pre-loaded with Windows XP Tablet PC Edition. A Windows 7 Professional upgrade is also available. Prices start at $1,279.

VISTA CAPABLE LAWSUIT LOSES CLASS ACTION STATUS

This one comes as a bit of a surprise seeing that so many goverments around the world are so interested in suing Microsoft to help pay for their fledging economies.

Anyway's Judge Maesha Pechman has stripped the suit against Microsoft of its class action status. Appearnly Microsoft was able to convice that people's confusion over the stickers meaning didn't "predominate over individual considerations."

This does not mean you can't sue Microsoft over those stickers. It just means that you and a bunch of your Mac buddies can't try and get it class action status.

We're not sure what Microsoft had to pull to get this, but we're thinking that they might be doing an out of court settlement and who know's, maybe Judge Maesha got a peek at that new Zune phone Microsoft has been denying in return.

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ZEPTO ZNOTE 3414W REVIEW – A CLASS APPROACH TO BEAT THE PRICEY ALTERNATIVES

Searching for a transportable office Laptop? If the EEE-PC and comparable laptops aren't idyllic, for the reason that their recital does not please your requirements, the Mac Book Air by Apple and the X300 by Lenovo are merely too luxurious, and 15.4 inch middle class laptop not handy enough, it's about time to mull over a laptop with portable 14.1 inch screen.

Design
The 14.1 inch Znote 3414W produced by Zepto Carries the dimensions of 33.7 cm x 24.4 cm x 4.3 cm large and therewith about 8 to 10 percent lesser than wide-spread 15.4 inch laptops. Weighing 2.5 kilograms in whole, it is still practical, although other laptops of the similar size, e.g., the Fujitsu Siemens Esprimo Mobile M9400 and the Samsung X22-Pro, which weigh at about 2.2. Kilograms are still lighter and peak concerning on weight.

Performance
The evaluated Znote 3414W was prepared with an Intel Core 2 Duo Mobile processor T7250. The T7250 is similar to the T7300 planted with a highest clock rate of 2.0 GHz. But, the economical T7250 is only powered with 2 as an alternative of 4 MB 2nd-level cache (L2). In practice the presentation dissimilarity is that negligible that the consumer will barely be familiar with any. Two DDRII-667 RAM units of 1.024MB capability each provide a total RAM capability of 2 GB. In addition, the customer is free to decide supplementary parts at arrangement time.

The screen of the reviewed laptop is a 14.1 inch sparkly WXGA wide display.
The Znote 3414W by Zepto is equipped with a shade of matte black keyboard with 87 keys. The maximum volume of the incorporated speakers is not elevated. In homecoming there are barely any deformations.

The sound level in inoperative mode and with customary office work load is little. We calculated 33.3 dB (A). Also under standard load the noise level is only 38.2 dB (A), which is all right. Idling under Vista, we gauge an power insist of 17.6 up to 27.2 Watt. This is about customary for laptops with this paraphernalia. The power insists is much superior with standard load (50.6 Watt) and as high as 75.6 Watt under full load.
The 6 cells power pack of 53Wh battery has a sprint time of up to 3.5h with the Battery Eater Reader's test.

Overall
The Znote 3414W by Zepto is a customary performer. This rock-hard 14.1 inch laptop weighs only at around 2.5 kg, its workmanship is high-quality and its input units are easy to use. When compared to supplementary 14.1 inch laptops its gear is also high-quality. So is the request presentation, whereas the sound emissions are low in office means. To sum up, the Zepto Znote 3414W tariff is good.

Pros
+ Compressed size
+ Reasonable weight
+ Rock-hard Case
+ High-quality workmanship
+ Concrete input apparatus

Cons
- Lid responsive to force
- Keyboard arrangement not typical
- No DVI or HDMI

Value For Money

Our Rating