Friday, March 13, 2009

Lenovo's ThinkPad X61 Tablet selling for a song, or $649

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/lenovos-thinkpad-x61-tablet-selling-for-a-song-or-649/


Eager to pick up a $2,000 laptop for $649? What if we told you that said computer was a sturdy, reliable ThinkPad X61 Tablet that you can even doodle on when the workday's done? For a limited window of time, you can hit up the read link and toss in a sweet little $150-off coupon in order to bring the bottom line down to $649 on a new tablet PC, and that pittance will buy you a 1.6GHz Core 2 Duo L7500 CPU, Vista Home Premium, a 12.1-inch XGA display, 1GB of DDR2 RAM, a 160GB hard drive, WiFi and an eight-cell battery. So, hot or not?

[Via LogicBuy]

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Posted by Augustine at 10:31 AM

MSI Wind U115 rated at 15 hours of battery life, torn apart for its trouble

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/msi-wind-u115-rated-at-15-hours-of-battery-life-torn-apart-for/


MSI's never been a slouch when it comes to its Wind series, but this new U115 seems to be something else entirely. In tests done by the folks at Eee-PC.de, the laptop ranged from 5.5 hours to 15 hours of battery life, based on level of usage. Even 5.5 hours is good for continuous use, but we could imagine all sorts of happiness with 15 hours of battery -- like camping. The laptop gets some of its battery mojo from its hybrid storage system, which allows the laptop to run entirely off of its 8GB of SSD memory, with the 160GB hard drive spun down to save power. The SSD is user-replaceable, if you don't mind a little warranty voiding, and the folks at nvision have thrown caution to the wind in ripping apart their U115 for our viewing pleasure.

[Via liliputing]

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Posted by Augustine at 10:31 AM

ARM-based netbooks primed to invade Computex?

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/arm-based-netbooks-primed-to-invade-computex/


Steppin' out in the world, are we ARM? Shortly after hearing that OLPC was eying the brand for processors in the XO-2, Digitimes is now reporting that ARM-based platform makers including Qualcomm and Freescale are looking to unveil netbooks at this year's Computex trade show in Taipei. Granted, none of this has been confirmed just yet, but we're hearing that a model with Freescale's i.MX51 CPU (the ARM Cortex A8) and a version with Qualcomm's Snapdragon CPU (to be manufactured by Wistron) will be on hand. Not shockingly, in the same breath we're told that NVIDIA Tegra-based systems will appear "at a later time." So, is Computex the show where Intel finally takes a little heat in the netbook market? And no, VIA didn't (and doesn't) count.

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ARM-based netbooks primed to invade Computex? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:18:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Posted by Augustine at 10:31 AM

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Brother's SV-100B Bluetooth "Document Viewer" looks like an e-book reader to us

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/brothers-sv-100b-bluetooth-document-viewer-looks-like-an-e-bo/

Brother's SV-100B Bluetooth
It's finally coming true; all those e-ink readers we expected would flood the market after the Kindle's initial release were apparently just waiting for its successor before jumping into the fray. Joining recent announcements from iriver, Neolux, and Plastic Logic is Brother, with the SV-100B. The company is calling it a "Document Viewer," featuring a 9.7-inch, 1200 x 825 display -- larger and stocking twice the pixels of the Kindle 2. However, it's not meant to be a Kindle-killer, instead aimed at business users who will pair this over Bluetooth with PCs or mobile devices to keep its microSD card filled with content, content that must be run through a converter app prior to display. No MSRP was announced, but given its focus on the corporate clientele it will surely be priced accordingly when it ships early this June.


[Via Engadget Japanese]

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Posted by Augustine at 9:17 AM

Intel rated leading chip manufacturer again, AMD slips out of top ten

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/intel-still-leading-chip-manufacturer-amd-slips-out-of-top-ten/

Intel rated leading chip manufacturer again, AMD slips out of top ten
This economic crisis has been tough for nearly every business worldwide, perhaps best evidenced by the number of corporate spats we've seen develop lately as everyone gets more and more protective of their respective turfs. While Intel and NVIDIA have lately been engaged in an epic war of PowerPoint presentations, fewer disputes have been bigger or longer-running than the one between Intel and its more direct competition, AMD. That "us inside" company just earned some bragging rights, being named the biggest processor manufacturer in the world again by iSuppli, with a 13.1 percent global market share. AMD, which came in tenth last year, dropped down to the number twelve position in 2008 after its revenue declined 7.8 percent compared to 2007. News was also bad for Texas Instruments, which dropped a position largely thanks to the success of mobile processors from Toshiba and Qualcomm. Don't be so glum, TI, maybe successes from Russell Crowe's favorite flavor of pico projector will make up for the difference.

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