Toshiba Promises Greener Future

Toshiba’s President of Digital Products and Services, Masaaki Osumi, has addressed the IFA in Berlin with his vision for a more environmentally-friendly digital future. He said he was shocked by the pwer shortages which followed the earthquake and tsunami in Japan this year, saying he  realized he and many other Japanese ‘take electricity for granted’. [...]

Lenovo IdeaPad Z370 – Review

Lenovo presents the all-new Lenovo IdeaPad Z370 – a 13.3-inch notebook, slick and portable. Lenovo traditionally makes its budget notebooks look more expensive than they really are, and so too with the Lenovo IdeaPad Z370. The IdeaPad Z370 measures 12.9 x 8.7 x 0.8~1.3 inches and weighs in at a very light 4.4 pounds. The palm rest [...]

Lenovo Thinkpad x220

Lenovo Thinkpad x220 fits well into the business ultraportable category. This X220 laptop has a 1366×768 pixel resolution and the display is LED backlit. There is also the IPS Screen for wide angles. According to the specs, it will use the Intel Core i3, i5 and i7 as the processor options. New Sandy Bridge Intel [...]

No Flash can add 2 hours to MacBook Air

No Flash can add 2 hours more battery power to browsing with Macbook Air. There is a reason why Apple did not place Flash capabilities on Macbook Air. Even if they call it as a courtesy call to say that users can place a newer version for themselves, there is a good reason for the [...]

Notion Ink Adam Tablet gets 15 hours of battery life

Rohan Shravan was in news headlines when he said that the Notion Ink Adam tablet will work 15 hours on a single charge. This means it provides better battery than any other tablet in the market and even Apple iPad. He has come out with a clarification that it is the way he chose to [...]

Onkyo BX 407A4 – Another re-branded Umid

Onkyo has announced BX 407A4 which is basically a re-branded Umid M2. In this cute device, you get an Intel Atom 1.2GHz processor. It comes with 512MB of RAM and a 32GB SSD for storage. It has good battery life of 7-hours.

Although equipped with a tiny 5-inch screen, it sports a mighty 1024×600 resolution which means the text should be really sharp on that little display. It will carry a price tag of $729.

Commentary: So after releasing one re-branded product yesterday, the Onkyo DX, which is actually a Kohjinsha DZ, here we have another re-branded product, the BX 407A4. Excuse my bluntness, but it is high time to churn out something original, not something with re-branded tag slapped upon

Pine Trail-M Atom 2010 is smaller than current Atom processors

Intel has in mind to roll out Pine Trail-M mobile netbook platform in the Q1 2010. Good news is that the chip is going to be around 64% smaller than the current slew of Atom processors. Interestingly, it needs less power and its somewhat more cheaper to manufacture.

It is commendable that Intel managed to bring down the package footprint by 64 percent. Reason behind this is the fact that it has switched over from three chips to (CPU, Northbridge and Southbridge) to just two chips (CPU and Southbridge) in the Pine View processors.

When measured with Mobile Mark 05 office productivity Pine Trail-M platform will get you 20 percent lower power reduction, which in other words means even better battery life in Windows XP.

• reduced motherboard realeastate: 2174mm(Atom)->773mm(Pineview).
• Better memory support from N270’s DDR2 533 to DDR2 667
• GPU core frequencies increased from 133MHz to 200MHz
• PCB design now uses only 4 layers compared to 6 layers, which was previously used by Intel Atom
• TDP dropped from 8W to 7W

Commentary: Although the overall size will be smaller, but it is highly unlikely that manufactures are going to produce smaller netbooks. It is all about the market demand and most of the consumer want bigger displays and spacious keyboards.

Camangi WebStation UMPC coming December 2009

Camangi is actually a MID that runs Android OS. It is quite funny when a company calls its product a UMPC when it cannot even run a Desktop OS like XP, Vista or 7. Anyway, Camangi is going to launch its Android MID this coming December (2009). Price is expected to be around $399.

It runs on a Marvell 624MHz processor; has built-in WiFi (b/g), Bluetooth, GPS and can even act as USB host. This would be great for those who wish to plugin their external keyboard and mouse for easy input.

There are two cameras: one in the front (0.3MP) and another one at its back (2MP). Battery life is expected to be around 4-5 hours.

[Camangi Webstation website]

Lenovo S10-2 in green color

Amazon is selling a cool, green colored Lenovo S10-2 netbook, preloaded with Windows 7 Starter Edition. Rest of the specs have experienced no change:

• 1.6GHz Intel N270 Atom Processor
• 1GB of RAM
• 160GB HDD
• 10.1″ (1024×600) 16:9 LED Display
• Intel GMA950 Graphics
• Bluetooth and Wi-Fi
• Windows 7 Starter Edition
• Up to 6 Hours of Battery Life

Price: $349.99

HP Envy 14 – CULV or not?

Although HP tries hard to keep their projects secret, but they are just never able to hide these projects from some wise guys. The newest HP leak is Envy 14. Will it sport a CULV processor just like the DV-series?

We think that it won’t be a bad decision on HP’s part to equip this laptop with a CULV processor as they are more powerful than Atom processors and still deliver great battery life.