HERCULES PLANS TO RELEASE ITS eCAFE EC - 1000W IN THE US

Hercules, a company known for making computer peripherals, also has some netbooks to its credit. You can’t quite call them performance machines and they have never been available in the US. But now Hercules plans to release its eCAFE EC-1000W in the US. It is expected to sell for about $399.

The eCAFE EC-1000W has a 10 inch display with 1024 x 600 pixels. It has regular netbook specifications. The netbook is powered by a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 processor with 1GB of RAM and a 250GB hard disk drive. It runs Windows 7 Starter Edition. Other features include WiFi 802.11b/g/n.

Since netbooks usually have more or less the same hardware, the biggest selling point is the design. The eCAFE EC-1000W can probably score in this department. It has an attractive design with a nice color scheme. The keyboard is chiclet-styled and the touchpad is of reasonable size.

TOSHIBA PLANS MORE LOW-COST LAPTOPS

Toshiba will soon release more laptops that would sell for under $600. The Japanese company currently sells four budget models – one netbook and three laptops - in its Satellite line and plans to expand it to six. The new laptops will be offered in the same budget category. They are likely to be sold in the US and Europe first.

Toshiba, a late entrant in the lost-cost laptops and netbooks market, seems to have finally realized the potential of this sector. Surveys show that netbooks are rapidly gaining popularity. Almost 6 million netbooks – 20% of the market for laptops - were shipped in the first quarter of the year as against the 1 million netbooks sold in the first quarter of last year.

ACER PLANS TO OFFER LINUX SSD 10-INCH ASPIRE ONE'S

Acer (like so many companies) didn't seem interested on spilling details of future releases at its 10-inch Aspire One launch party. But reports are coming out that the company does have a Linux and SSD option in mind for its new 10-inch systems.

So far it seems that the only SSD option will be a 16GB. We're not getting any word on the Linux OS that will be offered and as for release date and price, that of course goes null. But we are hearing that the system will be a launched a little after its February bound 10-inch Window's XP Aspire One systems.

QUANTA COMPUTER PLANS OUT PRODUCTION FOR THE FUTURE INTEL

Quanta Computer has clutched orders for Intel's next production Classmate PC and is anticipated to establish shipping in the 1st quarter of 2009, according to sources at Taiwan laptop producers.Shipment volumes of the new-fangled Classmate PC in 2009 are projected to be around 2 million units. Consignments were around 100,000 components in 2007 and are anticipated to hit 500,000 elements in 2008. Intel has corroborate that Quanta will be producing the new-fangled Classmate PC, but whispered the preceding generation Classmate will go on with shipping too with the innovative OEM partner, Elite group Computer System (ECS), still producing. Intel's subsequently age band Classmate PC will characteristic rotatable touch panel.

MAXELL PLANS WELL

If you're exhausted of run of the mill, shiny, label-less DVDs, but don't wish for to fritter away your time printing tags, Maxell well has the answer. Maxell has initiated their most recent DVD product - leather enclosed DVD-R/RWs. These DVD's are sheltered with a comfy leather-style label' that appears and feels like rawhide. The conclusion to construct this came from the detail that many people don't encompass the point in time/gear to print their individual labels. Maxell determined to make those naked DVDs a bit extra gorgeous. The DVDs will be accessible in 5 different colors, and will be elevated presentation/lofty exactitude discs. They will be on sale from October 25th in Japan for an undisclosed value.

ADOBE PLANS FOR FUTURISTIC PHOTOSHOP

Adobe Systems is pondering about building sections of Photoshop and imaginative Suite applications capable to be manipulated using the Flash widgets. The thought, if fully planted, would be a narrative way to help users discover the colossal software online or on their desktop and make things easier for workspaces. Product Manager of Photoshop John Nack scribbled lately on his blog, "The plead of extending one's application with frivolous, cross-platform, network-aware widgets is so understandable that we were hectic building shore up in my first application some 8 years ago and we had to put together our individual Flash Player clone to do it!"

DELL PLANS TO TAKE THE EEE MARKET SHARE

Dell Inc. is preparing to reveal its low-cost 8.9-inch mini-notebook in the coming June this year. “The Dell equipments seem more likely to meddle head on with the (Asus) EEE PC, which is also intended at consumers, than the HP’s Mini-Note PC competition of EEE, which is currently being marketed to schools for the regular classroom usage. The Dell machine will occupy an 8.9-inch screen and that will be priced beginning at $399,” the report reveals. Dell’s mini-laptops are revealed by an official representative at the Compal Electronics Inc., a Taiwanese company that accumulates computers for additional vendors, and was even confirmed by a Dell spokeswoman. Presently, there is no information on specifications of the latest up comers the Dell ultra-portables.

LENOVO’S PLANS FOR LAPTOP MARKET

Lenovo Group Ltd has reduced its technology spending due to the geographic scope, told the Chief Executive Officer William Amelio. It is to be noted that Lenovo is Asia's biggest personal-computer maker. The surprising fact is that the whole company is very optimistic about it. This Chinese company has its corporate headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina. The expectations of the company is to further the sales of laptops to consumers. He has understood it well because this is a market that is outpacing corporate PC shipments. The company also proceeds to improve its profit margins by making its supply chain more efficient. One example is that the company may ship 15 percent more PCs in the year ending March 2009.