Archive for Thursday, January 17th, 2008

New ! Macbook Air

Jan  08
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It seems like going green is the theme this year what with Apple taking pains to ensure MacBook Air is environmentally friendly. The casing is made of aluminum with a 13.3-in. mercury-free glass display. The notebook, which is a whopping 56% thinner than MacBook Pro, has a tapering width which ranges from 0.76-0.16 inches — the largest end of the measure still being thinner than the thinnest part of ordinary laptops.

MacBook Air has black full-sized keyboard, LED backlit screen, built-in iSight camera and a trackpad which has multi-touch gesture support. By that it means you can set different gestures to correspond to different commands (scroll, zoom, delete, etc.). The Air uses Intel Core 2 Duo processors which has been shrinked down to 60% from its original size to fit inside the MacBook Air. According Intel’s CEO, Paul Otellini, “The CPU is the width of a dime, the thickness of a nickel, and we didn’t think we could do it.” They did.

The Air sports 1.8-in hard drives, USD 2.0, microDVI port and headphone jacks. It has Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR and 802.11n WiFi connectivity. What’s missing with the MacBook Air? An optical drive. BUT, you can buy a separate bus-powered drive worth US$99. Apple also has a new software called “Remote Disc” which lets you connect to others computers’ drives, even PCs. You get 5 hours of battery life when you’re actively surfing the internet with the MacBook Air.


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a $20,000 iPhone Case

Jan  08
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If you are looking for a way to flaunt your money and your love for technology at the same time, here is something you might be interested in. Case-Mate’s Diamond Case, handcrafted with 42 pieces of sparkling ice encrusted in rich 18-carat gold dressing up your iPhone, positively loaded indeed. All for a paltry sum of $20,000. There is also a limited-edition $90 carbon-fiber case for our penniless souls.

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Ultra Laptop Maxdata Belinea s.book 1

Jan  08
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If the mobile phone industry’s gotten a kick in arse by iPhone, the laptop industry was wakened to the possibility of having affordable ultra-portable laptops by the Asus Eee PC. After the CloudBook, let’s take a look at the German market to find the Maxdata Belinea s.book 1 mini laptop. It’s an ultra-portable seven-inch laptop which weighs a mere 1KG. I must admit, although my first thoughts were that it’s just another copycat, the specs impress me: 80GB HDD and DVD writer on a system running on Windows XP Pro.

Other specs are:

VIA C7-M processor and VIA VX700 chipset
Original Microsoft Windows XP Professional
80 GB S-ATA hard drive
1024 MB DDR2 SDRAM
7-inch WVGA TFT (800 x 480 pixels)
WLAN 802.11 b / g
DVD-RW optional
Other features: Bluetooth, VoIP phone, a touch-screen, DVI-I

In spite of its seemingly more favorable specifications, I’d still go with the Eee. Why? Well the Maxdata Belinea s.book 1 costs US$1,190 — more than twice the price of the Eee. Oh, and besides, it’s only available in the German market.


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