Fujitsu has announced the release of two new AMILO notebooks for the market. The new models, the Pi3560 and the Pi 3660 come with a number of options to choose from. The 3560 will be available in 15.6-inch or 16-inch HD display, while the 3660 will be available with an 18.4-inches HD display, all LCD screens will have a 16:9 aspect ratio.
Other features for the notebooks include WiFi b/g/n, Bluetooth, 1.3 megapixel webcam, microphone array, e-SATA port, S/PDIF connectivity port, 5-in-1 memory card reader, up to 8GB of RAM, 320GB or 500GB hard drives, and Intel’s Core 2 Duo processor.
Both notebooks also have options for your entertainment needs. You can add optional Blu-ray drive, HDMI connectivity, and NVIDIA GeForce GT240M 1GB graphics. With the number of options available, the cost will of course flicker according to the chosen configuration, Fujitsu though, has not yet released any pricing and availability details.
ASUS UK has announced new notebooks, each promising a runtime of a full 12 hours! But the wonderful claim of a runtime comes with a rider, ASUS says it is only applicable if Power4Gear system, which has four modes (high-performance, entertainment, “quiet office” and battery saving), so 12 hours would obviously be for the most miserly of these. Nevertheless, that is an impressive runtime.
The three models ASUS has launched for this UnLimited series are UL30, UL50AG and UL50VG. The first one comes in a 13.3-inches package, while the others are available in 15.6-inches. The 50VG also has dedicated graphics. All notebooks come in a brushed aluminum case and run on processors from Intel’s CULV platform.
When launched on October 22, these notebooks will come with Windows 7, Altec Lansing Speakers, WiFi a/g/n, Bluetooth, multitouch trackpad, and webcam. The UL30 has been priced at £599, the UL50AG at £699, while the UL50VG will sell for £799. The UL30 will also be available as a freebie, with a mobile broadband contract with Carphone Warehouse.
Dual screens have been an object of desire and interest in laptops for quite sometime now, and such systems now appear to be firmly on the horizon of reaching the markets. While a couple other dual screen laptop concepts are already trying to reach production, Kohjinsha heated things a bit with a promising dual-screen netbook concept.
The concept has two 10.1-inch screens, whose arrangement pretty much follows the standard practise for such netbooks. When required, one screen slides beneath the other to have just one working screen, and can slide out just as easily when dual screen operation is required. The concept runs Windows 7, has up to 4 GB of RAM, 160GB HDD, 1.6GHz AMD Athlon Neo MV-40 processor.
Presence of an extra screen does of course make the netbook a bit thicker than other single screen netbooks. Since this was just a concept, Kohjinsha hasn’t announced the price, the battery life or even if they have any production plans for this one.
MSI had already announced its 15.4-inch GT640 Gaming Notebook, and it has now said that the GT640 will be accompanied by the 17-inch GT740 gaming notebook. The GT740 notebook will run on the Intel Core i7 processor, and will have Windows 7 OS. The notebook will also include NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M 3D graphics chipset, HDMI Output, 4 GB RAM, 250GB to 500GB HDD, Blu-ray drive, 4-in-1 memory card reader, a 2-megapixel camera, Wi-Fi, and an eSATA port.
The sound system for this notebook is an impressive one, with five SRS-capable speakers and an included subwoofer. If that doesn’t cut ice with you, there’s an output for 7.1-channel surround sound systems as well. MSI is yet to announce pricing and release date, but since it will be shipped with Windows 7, the release obviously will be after October 22.
The Swordfish Net 102 Dual Netbook Computer, as its makers call it, has the distinction of putting two 1.6 GHz Atom processors in one notebook, and probably is the only Netbook in the world with such a distinction. Other than the seemingly implausible show of the CPUs, the 10.2-inch netbook has a 2GB RAM, 160 GB hard disk, “dual Bluetooth” for tethering to smartphones, and WCDMA 3G cellular radio. The operating system on this one is Windows XP.
So there’s quite a lot of weirdness in the package, not to mention the little to no use extra CPU, and the strange “dual Bluetooth”. With such excesses, it would be unfair to expect the netbook’s 3-cell battery to hold out for long. A redeeming factor for the Swordfish Net 102 is a low price tag of $450.