Fujitsu-Siemens LifeBook P7120 Overview
BIOS Magazine (love the redesign by the way), has an overview of the LifeBook P712, which is said to last in upwards of ten plus hours.
Fujitsu Siemens Computers has launched an addition to its ultra-portable LifeBook P Series. The new LifeBook P7120 (£1299 ex. VAT) is one of the lightest, fully-functional laptops currently available.
Weighing a mere 1.28kg (depending model), the LifeBook P7120 also sports a modular bay, 10.6-inch WXGA widescreen display, full connectivity, striking black gloss finish and battery life that lasts up to a full working day.
The LifeBook P7120 will hit the market later this market and comes with fingerprint security as standard. The biometric fingerprint sensor is tied to the Trusted Platform Module (TPM), which acts as a hardware vault for passwords and encrypted keys. The hard disk drive shock absorbers reduce vibration to ensure higher data availability and prevent losses.
IBM Lenovo ThinkPad X41 Tablet PC
Mobile Tech Review has a look at the ThinkPad X41 Tablet PC.
Mobile computing users have waited for years for IBM (now Lenovo) to enter the Tablet PC market. IBM waited until the market and technology matured so they could make a strong offering. Three years after the first tablets hit the shelves, we have the ThinkPad X41, their first Windows XP Tablet Edition notebook. Has it been worth the wait? Yes: the machine offers good performance, that ThinkPad look and feel, along with the build quality and software add-ons we’ve come to expect from that line.
This convertible machine, which looks and works like a traditional notebook until you rotate the screen and lay it flat for tablet use has a 1.5 GHz Intel processor, Centrino architecture, 512 megs of RAM, WiFi, Bluetooth, a biometric fingerprint reader and a 12.1″ XGA display with integrated digitizer and EMR pen. It weighs only 3.5 lbs. and will slip easily into a briefcase or oversized women’s bag. In fact it’s currently one of the lightest convertible tablet PCs. That light weight comes at the cost of an internal optical drive: the tablet edition, like all IBM X series notebooks lacks an internal CD or DVD drive.
Toshiba Tecra A5-S416
The Tecra A5-S416 is a well rounded machine with lots of promise, and Laptop Magazine has a look at this machine, and it ends up with a three and a half out of five.
The Toshiba Tecra A5-S416 is a widescreen machine that offers all of the features you need at a price and weight that won’t make you cringe. There’s not much here in the multimedia department, but if you’re looking for an all-purpose business laptop with an eye towards productivity, this notebook won’t disappoint.
At 5.3 pounds, the A5 is portable enough to easily take to class, on a cross-country flight, or back and forth to work. The silver lid of the A5 curves down at the front and back, giving the system its classy look, and the interior is no-nonsense black.
With only three hours of battery life on this machine, I would not run out and grab it, unless I had a few extra dollars to grab another battery, or the bigger and heavier 12-cell battery.
HP Compaq nc4200 Review
An ultraportable from HP has a review up at IT Reviews. It is standard without an optical drive, which is a little backwards these days, but otherwise seems to be a decent notebook.
Just one look at the HP Compaq nc4200 tells you exactly who this ultraportable notebook is aimed at. With its dark grey/blue suit, it’s clearly a tool for the corporate road warrior, but it’s a lot lighter than it looks and has a useful combination of fast performance and a good battery life.
Part of HP’s Enterprise family of notebooks, the nc4200 range comes in three models with the review system, the PV983AW, being the flagship notebook.
The nc4200 PV983AW comes with the trio of Intel components that makes it a full blown Centrino notebook; Intel Pentium M 750 1.86GHz processor, i915GM Express chipset and, last but not least, an 802.11b/g Wireless LAN mini PCI card.
Backing up the CPU is 512MB of DDR2 memory and if this isn’t enough for you, it’s possible to fit up to 2GB of memory in the two SO-DIMM slots.
Sony VAIO VGN-A790
Laptop Magazine has a look at the VGN-A790, a nice, but expensive laptop from Sony.
The question isn’t what Sony’s VAIO VGN-A790 does, so much as, what doesn’t it do? This multimedia monster rivals most fully loaded desktops, with a 2-GHz Centrino CPU, a full gigabyte of memory, and a glossy 17-inch widescreen display. You also get a docking station with a built-in TV tuner, so you can record your favorite shows onto the 100GB hard drive, and a set of external speakers. With so many parts required to get the full experience, you may be better off buying a slim desktop or a notebook with a TV tuner built in.
I would still love to have this machine, though I doubt the batter time is where I would want it to be, it would make a great desktop replacement, especially since it is more powerful than my current desktop machine.
Fujitsu LifeBook P1510D Review
Hardware Central has a look at the much anticipated LifeBook P1510D, an interesting little notebook for those on the go.
In this day and age, when notebook manufacturers seem eager to cram way-beyond-XGA resolution into the smallest LCDs, we’re happy that Fujitsu kept this subnotebook’s wide-aspect-ratio, 8.9-inch display to a sensible 1,024 by 600 pixels (with the ability to pan or scroll, following the mouse pointer, if you select 1,024 by 768 or a higher setting).
This keeps icons and menu text from getting too tiny, letting you enjoy the screen’s crisp colors and bright backlight — turning the latter down one or two notches to help stretch battery life proved perfectly adequate, unlike laptops that leave us searching for a brighter-than-brightest setting. Our test unit’s display had no bad pixels to be found.
Ready for a 20-inch Laptop?
Okay, in my opinion the most important feature of laptops these days is its battery life and as such, I don’t see the need for 17 inch and above screen laptops.
Cnet has a story about larger screen laptops that may come out within the next few years.
But are consumers ready to lug around a 20-inch laptop? Shim said that displays measuring 15 inches and 17 inches on the diagonal–once considered too big to carry around–are now among the more popular versions.
Even larger screen sizes are in the pipeline. Samsung has already shown its upcoming 19-inch laptop to CNET Reviews. The product is expected to ship later this year. Dell, a major partner of Samsung, could easily adopt the large screen format for its high-end XPS laptops. And, LG Philips is also touting its 20-inch LCD displays for laptops, Shim said.
Heck, give me a 12 inch laptop that can run for twelve hours without a recharge, and I would be more than happy. Maybe I am in the minority though?
NEC’s LaVie T
It is amazing the capabilities being shoved into a laptop’s frame these days. NEC’s new machine the LaVie T is very interesting in that it is a high definition laptop with real-time MPEG2 decoding/encoding and the HD VISITAL engine.
From Akihabara News:
The LaVie T just got, on top of its real-time Mpeg2 decoding/encoding card, the HD VISITAL engine, already implemented in desktop PC’s. This PC with HD TV tuner is now capable of displaying videos from the TV tuner in HD. As usual at NEC’s, the PC comes with “SoundVu” where the entire screen is the speaker of the PC. The other specs are as follows: 15″ WXGA (1280×800) screen, 160Gb HDD, +-DL burner, Pentium M 740 and 512Mb of RAM (ext. to 2Gb).
ShaggyMac Notebook Screen Protectors
Are you worried about your notebook’s screen? I would hate to get scratches in my screen too, but would I really want to cover it with a product that has the name ShaggyMac? I don’t know if I would go that far, but it seems others will.
I4U news has the details:
This ultra soft micro fiber blanket protects the screen when the notebook is closed.
The ShaggyMac Laptop Screen Protector prevents the keyboard from making contact with the LCD screen and causing permanent marks and scratches. The ShaggyMac also doubles as a screen wipe.
Dell XPS M140
Recently Dell decided to increase the prevalance of the XPS line of computers and laptops. They were going to make the multimedia notebooks that everyone would want.
Today they released the XPS M140, a relatively light multimedia notebook.
Weighing in at a little less than 5.5 lbs and 1.5-inches thin the M140 has a 14.1-inch high-definition widescreen backed by Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005.
Included in the machine is a 5-in-1 media card reader and a Dell MediaDirect button for quick access to digital photos, music, and videos without starting up the OS.
The starting price is very reasonable at $999 USD. Find out more about it at Dell.com.
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