DOSPARA RELEASES THEIR 12 INCH LAPTOP

Japanese electronics maker DosPara has released their 12 inch laptop – the Dospara Prime Note Cresion NA. With a non-netbook processor like the Atom 330 and Nvidia’s Ion based chipset, this machine can’t really claim to be a netbook.

Features
The Prime Note Cresion NA is thin and lightweight. It has a relatively powerful processor and a large enough display, making it ideal for general use around the house. Other features include an HDMI port for transferring video to an external monitor, an optical drive, 2GB of RAM, a 320GB Hard disk, 3 USB ports, a card reader and Bluetooth.

The display measures 12.1 inch and has a resolution of 1,366x768. The laptop weighs just under 2kg. Prices start at $600.

DURABOOK AND TOUGHBOOK TAKE THE BEATING OF THEIR LIVES ON VIDEO

We're sure this won't appeal to everyone, but if you are interested in checking out what Durabook and Panasonic's Toughbook can handle then you might want to check out the videos we have included below as well as check out an indepth review of the whole thing.

For one both notebooks are not for everyone and most naturally the average user will not like th thickness of the notebooks (3" in some places), but durability is there. They can be dropped, stepped on, sprayed with water and just about anything else you can throw at them.

So if you want to check out what they can take check out the video below and head HERE for a full review.

INTEL CLAIMS NO PROBLEMS WITH THEIR SSD

Appearantly Intel was not happy by the findings of PC PERspective's test results yesterday and has no claimed that there is nothing wrong with their SSD's. Further more Intel claims that:

the synthetic workloads they use to stress the drive are not reflective of real world use," . the benchmarks they used to evaluate performance do not represent what a PC user experiences.

We're not 100% sure why Intel is so angry but we would think that it has something to do with the fact that the drives are overpriced and that according to many the technology is still experimental. Either way we're betting that the pandering will go on until Intel finally decides to cave in and release a firm ware update to the drives.

What do you think?

ARE SSD'S WORTH THEIR HIGH PRICE

You've seen the word before, SSD or HDD options. And maybe you own that well coveted SSD option on your current laptop. But if you're in the market for a new system and are not sure what an SSD is than let me give you a crash course on whether you should or should not buy it.

SSD stands for Solid State Drive and as the name suggests it does not contain any moving parts unlike its HDD relative which uses a spinning disk to operate. I would love to go into a long discussion as to the pros and cons but since you'd probably be bored half way through I'm going to hit you with the facts straight up.


PROS

Faster operating speeds. Because there are no disk to spin a solid state drive can operate at faster speeds than their hard disk counterparts.

Nearly Indestructible Data: This is not to tell you that if you throw your new netbook down the Grand Canyon you can waltz down there and pick up the pieces and find your SSD in tack. But it does mean that if you should accidentally drop it due to carelessness or some other mishap, you don't have to worry about losing your precious data.

Better Power Management: SSD offer much better battery life than HDD options. Not only do they eat up less battery juices they also cause the system to run smoother because that continuous spinning is gone which can generate a lot of heat.

CONS:

More Expensive: SSD options are considerably more expensive than their HDD counterparts. This is mainly because they are a new technology and like all new tech takes a while to drop in prices.

Less Disk Space: Generally speaking SSD options contain considerably less disk space than their HDD counterparts. Case in point is a 32GB SSD would cost the same as an 80GB HDD. Or an 80GB SDD costs round about the same as a 160GB HDD.

CONCLUSION:

If multitasking is your thing and you have the extra cash than SSD is your answer. But for those who do casual web surfing and document editing, the high prices of solid state drives are too much to offset the little performance gains we could have. In the end though its a matter of choice. Just note that the price you are paying today for an SSD option, a year later you will get double or triple the space for the same mullah.

ASUS & INTEL TO ENCOURAGE THEIR INNOVATION THROUGH COMMUNITY SHARING

Regardless of having armies of their personal techies, Intel and ASUS are turning over the job of conniving laptops and net books to the punters, through a new website called WePC.com . The idea give the impressions to be that you caper about on the site - experimenting with specs, substances and case art - then tender your ideas to the emerging community where everybody can dispute over the pros and cons of your design. The eventual aspire appears to be to generate a "worldwide discussion about the perfect elements of PCs". The produce sub-sections will be laptops, gaming laptops and net books. The 2 companies "anticipate" making a consumer-stimulated product from every grouping.

GATEWAY LAUNCHES THEIR ENTERTAINMENT LINE-UP

Entertainment and multimedia concentrated MC-series of Gateway notebooks are now obtainable. Gateway has initiated their new-fangled 16:9 MC-series of laptop arrangement with a 16" form factor. The company aims users who use a notebook mainly for amusement and multimedia functions. Power-driven by Centrino 2 hardware, MC-series of notebooks will attribute elucidated Multimedia Touch Controls, ambient light feeler and back-lit keyboard. Gateway will proffer MC-series notebooks in 2 colors - burgundy and black. In spite of the color, you'd observe an idiosyncratic synthetic leather branding band of color flanked by silver pronunciations on the notebook. The stylish burgundy replica has a profound, rich finish, a brushed metal palm rest and a black polished keyboard enclose. The black mock-up is polished to a profound, jet black shine and has a artificial leather palm rest and black polished keyboard surround. In supplementary features, Gateway's MC-series of notebooks are also sanctified with customary HDMi v1.3 port, 5-in-1 Card Reader, 4 USB 2.0 ports, 1.3Megapixel Webcam, 802.11n Wi-Fi and Gigabit Ethernet.

Details with regards to, 2 MC-series notebooks have now been made public, MC7801u & MC7803u. Each of these components will come pre-installed with Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit Service Pack one. The former is motorized by Core 2 Duo T5800 2GHz CPU, 4GB DDR2 667MHz RAM, GMA 4500MHD graphics accelerator, DVD burner drive and a 320GB Hard Drive for $950. It's now obtainable at online store.

COMMODORE LAUNCHES THEIR NETBOOK TOO

New names are not a brand new concept in the computer hardware industry. Every hardware manufacture wants to take home a share in the notebook world. With so much new entrants witnessed around, the latest to join the bid is Commodore. Commodore has entered the Netbook marketplace with their forthcoming 1.6GHz UMMD 8010/F ultra-portable. Commodore has revealed a Netbook to their item for consumption list, the all new UMMD 8010/F. This slightly-retro looking Netbook arrives with a 10" display, 1.6GHz C7-M CPU, 80GB HDD, 1GB of RAM, incorporated 802.11b/g Wi-Fi and 1.3-megapixel camera, and an alternative to append Bluetooth to the mix. The unit is valued at a high preliminary price of $600, and will set off up as you put in options like Bluetooth.

SAMSUNG TARGETS THE NETBOOK’S FOR THEIR COST-EFFICIENT SSD’S

Targeted at low-priced transportable PCs, the low-density SSDs from the house of Samsung will attribute an SATA II interface for some speedy transfer rates. Samsung has presently proclaimed that it has started sampling low-density; high-performance solid state drives (SSDs) which are 70% less significant when evaluated to customary 2.5" SSDs. Samsung maintains that these are extremely cost-efficient to produce and expects their novel SSD offerings to be an eye-catching substitute for presented HDDs in low-cost PCs. These low-density Samsung SSDs employ the similar high-performance SATA II controller technology as that being utilized on Samsung's just launched MLC-based 128GB SSD.

The 32GB version of new-fangled SSD lineup will interpret data (successively) at 90MB/s and inscribe it (successively) at 70MB/s. The 16GB reads at 90MB/s and writes at 45MB/s, at the same time as the 8GB reads at 90MB/s and writes at 25MB/s. Samsung integrates 4 individual 16 gigabit (GB) MLC NAND chips in its 8GB SSD, as well as 4 dual-die packages and 4 quad-die packages of 16Gb NAND for its 16GB and 32GB SSDs correspondingly. In addition, by counting a 32MB DRAM as the barrier and 4-channel system for the novel low concentration SSDs, these solutions are well suited for high-speed reading situations. Samsung will establish manufacturing these Netbook friendly 8GB, 16GB and 32GB multi-level-cell SSDs at the commencement next month.

ATI SHOWCASES THEIR BRUTAL POWER

The ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3800 is the greatest mobile graphics card fashioned to date by the company. It is developed on 55nm technology and chains ATI CrossFireX movable graphics technology. The Mobility Radeon HD 3800 series possess a 256-bit GDDR3 memory edge a PCI Express 2.0 edge. It ropes Microsoft DirectX 10.1. And full 1080p Blu-ray video. Hold up for ATI Avivo HD Technology is incorporated. 55nm manufacturing expertise pooled with ATI Power Play technology permits the HD 3800 to comprise high energy competence. ATI says the new-fangled series has an exceptional performance-per-watt ratio and has a novel design size to recover thermal characteristics. The Mobility Radeon HD 3800 series has shore up for HDMI, DVI, and Display Port, and has local support for up to 4 monitors. Laptops with both incorporated and devoted graphics can advantage from ATI CrossFireX technology, which is a characteristic of ATI Hybrid Graphics Technology. It boosts graphics concert up to 70 percent by running the incorporated and discrete graphics collectively. Another innovative technology called ATI PowerXpress permits the laptop to use integrated graphics when on battery and turn off the detached graphics card, discounting up to an hour and a half of battery sprint life.

CRUCIAL POPS OUT THE SSD FROM THEIR SHED

Crucial has lately entered the laptop Solid State Drive (SSD) bazaar and established unbelievable response at this year's Consumer Electronics exhibit. Crucial is lashing home the truth that flash-based storeroom devices that really hold up well under strenuous working scenario, with things like boosted performance and lesser power consumption being runner-up. Read on to reveal if you should mull over if you should make-own one of the Crucial Solid state drives in this drenched market.

It seems to be that solid state drive producers aren't driving the extra mile when it comes to building the SSD as cool runner as possible. For investing almost half the amount of your laptop on one, they might incorporate a fancy hologram label across the top with "SSD" in big brave letters. The Crucial SSD is no poles apart, making all hunkies scratch their heads when they glance at the wrapping the drive revealed in, and the drive in itself. It really seems like the very thing that you would take off the shelf in the dollar store. Performance is exceptional in all categories. Average sprinting speeds are the most excellent we have witnessed from an SSD and when pooled with its low seek times; it serves for some motivating situations when running games.

AMD ON THE LAUNCHING SPREE OF THEIR NEW ENTRÉE

Laptop gaming focused Mobility Radeon HD 3000 version from the house of AMD will attribute 6 discrete GPU, all entirely specified on the upcoming 55nm technology. Earlier this year, AMD formally introduced the release of the new ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3000 variant of mobile GPU. The ingress-level ATI Mobility Radeon HD3430 will be motorized by M82 GPU joined with the 40 Stream processors. The mid series Mobility Radeon HD3650 will be operational with M86 GPU and 120 Stream of processors. It can be packaged with GDDR3/GDDR2 memory based on the end producers.

The flag bearer of the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3000 series yields are HD 3850, 3870, 3850 X2 and 3870 X2. All these 4 cards are design specific on the M88 GPU core. ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850 and 3870 are mid-series contributions for gaming notebooks. These will be motorized by 320 Stream processors and memory of 512MB of GDDR3 memory. They will contend unswervingly with popular NVIDIA merchandises like the GeForce 8600M, GeForce 8700M and GeForce 9500M. The ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2 and 3870 X2 are Crossfire pairs containing a 1GB of total video memory capacity and 640 of extreme Stream processors.

ASUS REVEALING THEIR BAMBOO VARIANTS

According to Chinese newspaper talks, ASUS will be releasing two of its laptops right in to the market totally sheathed in an innovative and yet more outcast means, Yes the notebooks will be sheathed in bamboo coverings and released as early as June this year. The bamboo enclosed units are whispered to promote the use of environmentally welcoming materials, in my opinion, we just imagine they look nothing less than drop-dead stunning.

Though we could be witnessing ASUS bamboo laptops as early as June, there is not even a whisker of an indication of ASUS' bamboo personal units or bamboo LCD screens making it to the retail sector. Providentially for al the bamboo-loving community of users, we might not have to hang around for ASUS bamboo Personal units as Dell has proud one of its very own.

As revealed to the reporters, Michael Dell launched the bamboo laded unit and asserted it to be Dell's least sized computer. The machine is roughly 81 per cent smaller than a customary desktop and utilizes 70 per cent fewer power. Contracted, that could indicate it has zilch but sulk cones inside, but, it sure stares pretty. Dell conditions that its eco friendly PC should shore the retail market later this year and be supposed to cost somewhere by the ranks of $500 and $700.

DELL TRYING TO RAMP THEIR POSITION TO NUMERO UNO

Dell has launched its revamped Vostro laptop line targeted at the small businesses, counting on the new-fangled 13.3-inch Vostro 1310 opening at a price range of US$699 and the 15.4-inch Vostro1510 opening at US$799. These merchandises are obtainable from today in the markets of Europe, Middle East and Africa, to be quickly followed by North and South America mostly on 1st May, and Asia and Japan possibly from 5th May. The party will also proffer a redesigned 17-inch Vostro 1710 laptop in mid-May. “Listening to consumers and performing swiftly on their feedback to progress our merchandises and overhauls sets Dell spaced out,” said Sameh El Deeb, customer PC Product Manager, Dell Middle East.