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Toshiba NB200-11L: A Major Netbook Competitor

By Wilson • Jul 15th, 2009 • Category: Netbooks

Redefining computing experience, the mini Toshiba NB200-11L has a generous 10.1 inch TruBrite display that is contemporary. The netbook from Japanese firm Toshiba offers enhanced protection and a super-build that is befitting for a Toshiba brand. The keyboard is almost full-sized and makes it very easy to type on the NB200’s keyboard. Ideal for use as a secondary laptop and perfect for web browsing, the notebook is an ultra portable laptop ideal for home use. It is equipped with an Atom processor that runs at a clock speed of 1.6 GHz. It has 1 GB RAM (DDR2 SDRAM) and Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition as it operating system. Its 10.1 inch WSVGA TFT Active Matrix display screen offers sharp and vivid images that are realistic. The laptop is equipped with Intel 945GSE Express chipset. Also, it has a hard drive capacity of 160 GB and a hard drive rotation speed of 5,400 RPM. The hard drive offers ample storage space for all your storage needs for files, photos, music, media and other stuff.

The laptop has Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950 as its graphics processor while it has a installed video memory of 512 MB. The laptop has a host of expansion ports that enhance its connectivity like 3 USB 2.0 ports, one VGA out port and RJ-45 (NIC). Also for enhanced networking, the 2009 netbook has integrated 10/100 network card and integrated Wireless LAN. Running on lithium-ion battery, the notebook has a maximum running time of 9.15 hours. Weighing only 1.3kg, the laptop is lightweight and easy to carry from one office to another. Travel-friendly, it makes a perfect travelling companion. An ultra portable netbook, the Toshiba NB200-11L has keyboard and a touchpad as its input devices. It has many interfaces like Connection Audio – Line In, Line Out, Ethernet – RJ45 and USB – Universal Serial Bus 2.0. It also has slots like MultiMedia Card (MMC), SD Card and SDHC Card slot. With an aspect ratio of 16:10, the netbook’s LCD Display screen is glossy and has an LED backlight.

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Apple iPhone 3GS: The All New and Improved iPhone is Here!

By Alexis • Jun 26th, 2009 • Category: iPhone

A fast iPhone, Apple iPhone 3GS displays web pages in a fraction of a second and allows user to view email attachments faster. It has an improved performance and delivers excellent gaming performance with 3D graphics. A lot more responsive than and twice as fast as iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS is the new improved avatar. The user can shoot video, edit it and share it all on your iPhone 3GS. Use the 3 mega pixel camera to clock grate still photos, which come out great thanks to the built-in auto focus and a handy new feature that lets you tap the display to focus on anything you want. It is now easy to share your video in an email and post it to your MobileMe gallery, publish it on YouTube, or even sync it back to your Mac or PC using iTunes.

A practical and versatile device, the iPhone recognises names in your Contacts and knows the music on your iPod. Its new Compass application automatically reorients maps to match the direction you’re facing. It also allows you to cut, copy and paste words, photos and web content, even between applications. The Apple iPhone 3GS is equipped with an intelligent keyboard that can be rotated to landscape to use a larger keyboard in Mail, Messages, Notes and Safari. Accessibility and searching for contacts, email, calendars, and notes has become very simple on your iPod. Sending messages with text, video, photos, audio, locations, and contact information can happen at the clock of a button. What’s more the iPhone offers accessibility features for users who are visually or hearing impaired. Such features include the VoiceOver screen reader, a Zoom feature, White on Black display options, Mono Audio and much more.

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ASUS Eee PC 1008HA SeaShell: What Everyone has been waiting for

By James • May 12th, 2009 • Category: Laptops

Every computer lover has got his and her eyes fixed on the latest product from the ASUSTek Computer Inc, Eee PC™ SeaShell which to be launched in UK on the 15th May. Everyone is holding the breath and rightly so. A look at the upcoming product is enough to get you hooked on to the Seashell, which does very much resemble the seashells.

But to a tech-savvy person there are many things besides looks that matter. Exploring the specifications of the laptop ensures that the initially generated interest among the buyers would definitely hold good.

The ASUS Eee PC 1008 HA ‘Seashell’ is not just another addition to the Eee PC Series. It actually takes the bar higher and higher. The kind of perfection the designers have targeted becomes quite obvious from the pains they have taken in making the laptop resemble the seashell, i.e. true to the name given.

The laptop weighs only 1.1 kg and has astonishingly small dimensions of 262mm x 178m x 18~25.7 mm making it easiest to carry around wherever you may be. Not just that, the Asus Eee PC 1008HA-WHI012X SeaShell netbook has a 10 inch LED-backlit display screen that gets you 1024×600 pixels and comes with Colour-Shine technology. So you not only get smaller and handy size but you also get the best of technology as well.

The system doesn’t fall short on any front. It is driven by Intel® Atom N280 processor, the very best in its domain. It comes with 1GB DDR2 RAM and impressive hybrid storage of 160 GB SATA HDD and 10 GB Eee storage.

To ensure effective connectivity it comes with WLAN 802.11 b/g/n @ 2.4 GHz, Bluetooth 2.1 features. Also it has Mini VGA connector, 2 x USB 2.0, LAN and audio jack for smooth interface and better options for enjoying the laptop.

To make the Seashell a complete product, the Taiwanese manufacturer ASUS has provided 1.3 MP camera. It also comes with stereo speakers and a built-in digital array mike enabling you to get all the desirable multi-media features.

ASUS is bringing out their upcoming offering in various impressive colours including usual ones like white, black and blue and typical ones like pink, sapphire blue and ruby red. There would be something to suit the likes of everyone. It must be accepted without any doubt that the buzz that Seashell Asus netbook has already managed to generate is turning out to be as justifiable as anything can be.

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The Android Netbook from Asus: Will it break the Ice?

By James • Mar 4th, 2009 • Category: Netbooks

The netbook market has started taking a different approach. It has started striving more towards lowering the costs involved, with the manufacturers taking a good look at the operating systems that are beyond the conventional Linux and are operated by internet enabled smartphones. It does not come as a surprise in the midst of all this that ASUS is also venturing into netbooks that are Android enabled. The company has announced that such a strategy has been put into implementation and will possibly be yielding results by the end of the year. The netbook is touted to be best for ARM processors.

The Android operating system is made to work on ARM processors with the net performance rate being very low, somewhere around 200MHz. This will help netbooks that use Intel Atom processors, like the Asus Eee PC 904 HA, to successfully run Windows applications. Another fact behind the endorsement of this strategy is that the Android OS based on Linux does not demand a processing fee; whereas its Microsoft counterparts do. This would help in drastically bringing down the costs and also lowering the price for the end consumer. Time will tell whether Android will be used as a netbook platform as often as Ubuntu Linux or Windows currently are.

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Yet another Eee PC: ASUS unveils the extra slim Eee PC 1008HA

By James • Mar 4th, 2009 • Category: Netbooks

The Eee 1008HA is a newbie which has yet to be launched by Asus. As netbooks are gaining more popularity and are available at a low cost, ASUS has come up with the Eee 1008HA the new netbook which is only 1 inch thick, weighs 1.1kg and is the quintessence of advanced mobile computing. It is one of the lightest weighing Asus netbooks and is also ultra slim. It comes in pearl white case which also lends the computer a captivating and fashionable appearance.

It is featured with a desktop application bar which is called as Eee Docking. It offers a group of software which consists of Eee Sharing and Eee Arena. The Eee sharing software makes synchronizing it with other computes or netbooks for sharing messages, documents and other contents and Eee Arena is used to access various contents and features including radio stations, games, magazines, songs etc. The Eee 1008HA is also featured with a 92% scale unit keyboard which is user friendly and convenient to use with a properly placed right shift key. Essentially, it is considered a follow up to the stylish Asus Eee PC S101 netbook. The 1008HA also includes, a multi touch track pad, 1.3 mega pixel webcam, Digital Array Mic, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and also 3.75G and WiMAX connectivity. It is also equipped with SRS Premium Sound Technology for perfect sound quality. The screen size is 10 to 12 inches.

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