In the notebook Lenovo ThinkPad W700ds two display, 17" and 10.6"

The company Lenovo has recently introduced the next addition to its series of notebooks ThinkPad, model W700ds.

New product is designed to raise the notebook category replacement of desktop PCs to a new level.


I saw a lot of notebooks with a small auxiliary screen, show your new messages mail, IM-client, etc. ThinkPad W700ds developed the idea of two displays in a notebook. Addition to the main 17-inch display with a resolution of 1920 x 1200 pixels are here to provide a supportive 10.6-inch screen, which is located vertically, with a resolution of 768 x 1280 pixels.

Customers can flexibly configure the mobile PC, a choice of processors from Intel Core 2 Quad, a powerful professional graphics accelerator NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700M GPU, up to 8 GB DDR3, up to two hard disks of the total volume up to terabytes.

The model is positioned as a solution for designers, photographers. They are useful in the lower part of the built-in keyboard digitizer. For additional functionality they would have to pay in direct and figurative senses. Price ThinkPad W700ds amount of 2.5 thousand dollars, and the weight of the decision would be impressive five kilograms.

Source: ComputerWorld
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Mini-Notebook Fujitsu LOOX R got SSD; now it can operate autonomously for more than 12 hours

Mini-Notebook Fujitsu LOOX R, which we were told a year ago, had been modernized. Two new versions have preserved the basic external features of its predecessor: a recognizable design and 12.1-inch screen resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels. In the new processor is the Core 2 Duo SU9300, running at a frequency of 1.2 GHz.


Configuration model FMV-BIBLO LOOX R/C70 includes the amount of 128 GB SSD adapter and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR. The company estimates that it has increased the time of the autonomous work to 12.6 hours. A laptop equipped with an adapter IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n, complete with operating system Vista Business or XP Pro and is in the Japanese retail a little more than $ 3000.

Model FMV-BIBLO LOOX R/C50 no adapter Bluetooth, does not support the IEEE 802.11n, and not equipped with SSD, but winchester volume of 320 GB. Time autonomous operation of the laptop for half an hour less than the LOOX R/C70, but also more than 12 hours. Price LOOX R/C50 at about $ 2500.

Both the mini-notebook has three port USB 2.0, one IEEE 1394 adapter Gigabit Ethernet, modem V.92, slots SDi Type2 PC Card, jacks for connecting audio peripherals and external monitor. The size of C70 and C50 the same - 280 x 207 x 27.3 ~ 37.4 mm Weight - 1.27 and 1.3 kg respectively.

Source: Fujitsu
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Notebook NC20 with 12.1 "screen, a successor to Samsung NC10, will be released, possibly as early as February

Italian resource Notebook Italia, which is known to be dedicated to laptops and other mobile solutions, to get information on what will be the model-heiress mobile PC Samsung NC10, and can be expected when it becomes available for sale.


Index model, which will follow the Samsung NC10, - NC20. This compact computer is equipped with a 12.1" screen and built it will be based upon the VIA Nano U225 (not Intel Atom, 1,6 GHz, as the NC10), whose frequency - 1.3 GHz. Notebook will be equipped with 1 GB of memory and have a capacity of 160 GB hard drive.

Networking opportunities presented to support Bluetooth 2.0, wireless interface, Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11 b / g). Also in equipping NC20 will include 1.3-MP webcam and kardrider 3-to-1.

According to the source notebook weight is 1.5 kg, and its price is expected to be U.S. $642, or 450 euros. The official release NC20 be held in February 2009.

Source: Notebook Italia
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NComputing will show on CES virtual computers more cheaply $100

The company chose the NComputing show Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2009, which will be held in Las Vegas January 8-11, the place of the public premiere of a new product called NComputing X550. New to the manufacturer includes in the category of virtual desktops, overcame mark $ 100 per computer workstation.


The development and delivery of such decisions is an area of specialization NComputing. It is estimated that the company had already sold more than a million computer jobs in about a hundred countries around the world. In particular, the solutions offered by NComputing, are used to replace low-cost laptops in developing countries and educational institutions.

NComputing products are built on the obvious fact: today's PCs so efficient that most applications will use only a small fraction of computing resources. With the outcome of NComputing manages to form several virtual PCs on a real system, through which the group of users share its resources.


One set X550 provides the connection of up to five users. Given the cost of $ 449, this corresponds to less than $ 100 for one job. Adding a second set of X550 allows users to bring the total number to eleven.


Notably, the X550 offers multimedia features and full-screen video. Maximum screen resolution equal to 1280x1024 and 1440x900 pixels.


The distance between the main PC and jobs in the case of standard cables can reach 10 meters Wednesday virtualization vSpace supports Windows and Linux.

Source: NComputing
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