After we’ve seen Apple refresh some of its laptops and desktops lines yesterday, we now have some new Viewsonic laptops to show you. The new ViewBooks and ViewBook Pro run Windows 7 and they have been announced just in time considering that tomorrow Microsoft will unveil the new OS.

The ViewBook Pro will offer you an aluminum chassis, a 13.3-inch display, a low-voltage Core 2 Duo processor and an interesting interchangeable optical drive / second battery feature. The ViewBook Pro will get you up to 12 hours of battery life when using two batteries at once and in case you don’t want the extra battery you’re still left with 8 hours of autonomy.

Viewsonic also has three new ViewBooks, the 120, 130 and the 140. They will be 12-, 13.3- and 14-inch laptops coming with features like a Celeron or Core 2 Duo processor, 2GB of RAM, 250GB / 320GB hard drives and Windows 7 running in the background. The ViewBooks will cost you well under $1,000 while the ViewBook Pro will be priced anywhere between $999 and $1,099.

via tweaktown

Tags: Laptops, Laptops, microsoft, Portable Devices, ViewBook, ViewBook Pro, ViewSonic, Windows 7

Dell’s slimmest laptop so far, the Adamo XPS, has posed again for the camera. We still don’t know if Dell is ever going to launch the laptop officially but it would be pretty interesting to see it in action. We’re still curious to see what kind of battery Dell would fit into a case that’s just 9.99mm thick. Who would want a laptop with a poor battery just because it’s the slimmest in the world? Would you buy a Dell Adamo XPS if you had the chance? Or would you go for the MacBook Air instead?

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It’s no surprise that netbooks are becoming more and more popular, is it? They are a lot cheaper than regular laptops and ultraportable. Manufacturers are announcing more and more models but at the same time they are shooting themselves in the foot when it comes to overall revenues. Customers tend to ignore laptops and choose the cheaper versions instead. In the second quarter the portable PC market was at $26.4 billion which is 5% less than last year’s similar period. Netbook sales brought in 264% more revenue than last year but, which means that netbooks represent 11.7% share of the mobile PC market. Next year it’s expected that netbooks will account for 21.5% of portable shipments and bring in 10.9%. I wonder if they’re counting future tablets sales there because I have the feeling we’re going to see quite a bunch of tablets the size of a netbook in the near future.

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Tags: Laptops, Laptops, netbook, netbooks, sales, tablets

A new software platform has been released by Recursion Software, the Voyager 7.2 that will help software architects and developers come up with single set APIs for peer to peer application messaging for practically all major mobile phones. With the new platform, gadgets ranging from mobile phones to laptops can share their contacts and files to their network without the use of other interfaces of downloading and uploading the files which takes time to execute. Catered to serve mobile handsets such as the iPhone, Android, Blackberry and Symbian phones, the Voyager 7.2 was demonstrated at the 2009 CTIA WIRELESS I.T. & Entertainment Conference in San Diego. Check out the video to learn more.

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Today was the day for Dell to present something different, instead of technical stuff like new features for a laptop, they just released a new line of designs made by their Design Studio.

As you can see on the image, baseball was one of the inspirations and there are 3 variations: the Mini and Studio notebooks come with a custom lid that features the team logo; the Classic version gives more detail to the background and inserts the logo on a small size; as for the Fan version it just has a big logo.

The other line that was presented has women as the target and the covers match the style of nail polishes. There are different colors like brown, pink, red, or white, and each of them has a cool swirl pattern.

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For the people who are tired of the usual dark encased plastic for their laptop or netbooks, Schtickers.com has revealed their new line of laptop skins. The new laptop skins come in real birch and cherry wood made for PC, Apple and Netbook laptops. These woodie laptop skins are removable and and reusable. These new skins will also allow laptop owners to transform their simple laptops into chic and luxurious looking device in a matter of seconds. These Woodie Laptop Skins retail for just under $35.00.

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Tags: Accessories, Apple, cherry wood, laptop owners, Laptops, Laptops, netbook, Notebooks, skins

Toshiba has released two new SSD drives, offering smaller but efficient storage in small form factors that aim to provide broader storage solutions for various needs. These Toshiba SG2 modules are offered in two types, mini-SATA interface standard and a Half Slim-type making use of SATA connection. Both are available in 30GB and 62GB modules and will start mass production in October.

Both are smaller than the average credit card which should give you an idea of how compact and easier they are to carry around. And with the growing number of people owning laptops but require additional storage, these new SSD modules should be something worth having for varied use.

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Hewlett Packard has unveiled two thin full-performance notebooks in the market which should add to the everyday mobility and computing needs of consumers today. HP presents the HP ProBook 5310m and HP Pavilion dm3, both slim and stylish which should capture the eye of techie geeks looking for new laptops available in the market.

The HP ProBook 5310m boasts of a 0.9” thin frame which weighs only 3.7 lbs. It comes with a 13.3” diagonal LED HD display and a standard voltage processor for maximum productivity. It comes in two optional processors, an Intel Celeron dual core ($699) and an Intel Core 2 Duo processor ($899) with a battery that can last up to 7 hours of use.

The HP Pavilion dm3 offers a choice between AMD ($549) and Intel ($649) processors and features a 13.3” diagonal LED HD display and a battery that can last up to 10 hours.

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The stick you see in the picture here is not a stick but it’s a future Dell laptop. The teaser picture has been released yesterday but it’s no wonder people missed it since everyone was thinking iPod thoughts. There are no details about this MacBook Air-like computer as Dell wanted to tell the world about it precisely on 09/09/09. It must have something to do with the fact that this Adamo is only 9.99mm thick. We’re not going to go into the whole numbers and their signification. After all nobody wants to turn those 9s into 6s and start thinking unholy thoughts.

Getting back to the laptop in the picture, we can expect it to cost a lot more than we would normally want to pay for a laptop running laptop and we can expect it not to impress us in any way. What do you say Dell? Can we be wrong?

Tags: Adamo, Dell, Laptops, Laptops, MacBook Air, xps

Samsung Electronics may be busy releasing new mobile phones and OLED TVs but if rumors are true, we may yet see another first from them in the form of OLED laptops by 2010. As we all know, OLED technology has been the rave of the people for the past months and should this same technology be used in future laptops under the Samsung brand, you can bet that many techies are going to love it.

Imagine thinner frames, longer battery life and perhaps further reducing the weight of laptops are just some of the things that a Samsung OLED laptop would carry. And considering that they are one of the largest OLED manufacturers in the world, the probability of seeing these new concept laptops from Samsung is not impossible. If it does push through, expect a new wave of demand for this new feature, something that their competitors are bound to be studying as we speak.

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Hitachi has released a new mobile hard drive for people who require large storage that carry faster performance as far as reads and writes are concerned with the Hitachi Travelstar 7K500. As more people are turning to reliable mobile storage for their laptops, gaming systems and professional external storage solutions, the Travelstar 7K500 is the fastest hard drive that is also energy efficient at 0.69 watts when idle and 1.8 watts when in operation.

It features a speed of 7200 RPM and 500GB of storage space. Travelstar 7K500 is ideal for multitasking, gaming and other graphic-intensive applications. The Travelstar 7K500 is now available for purchase in stores. It is also available in other storage capacities: 120GB, 160GB, 250GB, 320GB and 500GB.

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It’s not a secret anymore that Apple is going to launch a 10-inch tablet in the near future. But we now hear that the Cupertino-based company is also considering launching 13-inch and 15-inch tablets. It it just me or have these Apple tablets have just gotten hotter?

Like always we can’t confirm these rumors and Apple will certainly not confirm them either. It looks like some iPhone-like big aluminum tablets have been spotted in a factory in Shenzuen, China. And it’s being reported that at least one of these bigger tablets was running Mac OS X. Should we expect Apple to come up with a whole new tablet line?

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Tags: 13-inch, 15-Inch, Apple, Laptops, Laptops, Mobile News, OS X, Portable Devices, tablet

For laptop and notebook users, the life of their laptop battery is critical. Especially for the ones who are always on the go and making use of their laptop as part of their daily routine, it is apparent that they either have to stop and recharge or purchase an additional battery to avoid their batteries from dying at times when they need them the most.

But now, LaptopBatteryExpress.com aims to change all that. To ensure that laptop owners don’t miss a beat and enjoy the continuous use of their laptops, they have released a new external battery aimed at frequent laptop users. This includes aims to cover businessmen and students who are now relying heavily on their laptops for mobile computing assistance.

The good thing about these external batteries from LaptopBatteriesExpress.com is that they are normally universal. They are compatible with nearly 10,000 different laptop models. Rather than rely on you internal battery which is normally good for only 3 to 4 hours, this is a great backup solution if you are going on long trips or don’t have immediate access to sockets for you to plug in.

As a bonus, an external notebook battery will have a USB port enabling the charging of other small, portable devices like cell phones, iPods and more.

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In case color is important for you then you should know that Dell is ready to offer you both the Studio XPS 13 and 16 laptops in white. Dell has brought the color back after discontinuing it a while ago. If you’re ready to pay $40 for an “Arctic White High Gloss” hue then go ahead and order your new Dell Studio XPS laptop now. In case color is not that important then I’m sure you will be able to invest that extra $40 in something more useful.

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Nokia’s first laptop was unveiled yesterday and today we find out that it could cost a lot more than we’d be willing to pay for it. Just because it says Nokia on it that doesn’t mean the regular consumer would pay $799 for a netbook. After all that’s what the Booklet 3G is, a netbook, and the rumored price, $799, seems like an awful lot of money to spend on it. Considering that Apple’s future tablet is rumored to cost somewhere in the same neighborhood we’d definitely advice Nokia to reconsider the price for the Booklet. Otherwise people are simply going to choose similar netbooks which are a lot cheaper than Nokia’s first computer.

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Tags: 3G, Booklet, Laptops, Laptops, netbook, netbooks, Nokia, Prices

Windows 7 will bring touch support to our future desktops and laptops and one of them could be the 11.6-inch EX6 tablet from Kohjinsha.

The EX6 will feature a 11.6-inch LED-backlit resistive touchscreen capable of 1,366 x 768 resolution, a 1.6GHz Atom N270 processor, a 945GSE chipset, up to 2GB of memory, a 160GB HDD, 802.11n WiFi connectivity, gigabit Ethernet, front and back-facing cameras, a DVD player, a 2600mAh battery, 2 USB ports and SDHC/microSDHC/ExpressCard support.

The machine will be available sometime this month for $635 and it will be running Windows XP at first. It’s up to you to upgrade it to Windows 7 and unleash its true potential.

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Tags: EX6, Kohjinsha, Laptops, Laptops, Mobile News, netbooks, netbooks, tablet, Windows 7

Don’t get all too excited since this isn’t official news. You can get mildly excited though since we expect HP to launch new netbooks in the near future. So why wouldn’t this new netbooks be 10.1- and 11.6-inch ultra-slim machines?

The word on the street is that HP has hired Quanta to make the 11.6-inch netbook this August while the 10.1-inch netbook is due before the end of the year. Inventec is also going to make netbooks for HP but these are revisions of HP’s 10.1-inch netbook. No details have been leaked so far about any of these new HP netbooks, but we’re counting on HP to bring something new to the table. Can we expect Windows 7 HP netbooks soon?

Quanta Computer will also make new 15.6- and 17.3-inch notebooks and shipments will start in August while Compal Electronics will work on 13.3- and 14-inch versions.

via digitimes

Tags: HP, Inventec, Laptops, Laptops, Mobile News, netbooks, netbooks, Quanta

Ever since the netbook craze started, companies, Asus and Acer especially, have been pumping out new models at an alarming rate.

Well, it seems that the duo is finally taking a break as reports have emerged that the two companies will put a hold on any new netbook models until 2010. This delay is apparantly due to Intel waiting until early 2010 to debut their Pine Trail-M platform.

For now, Asus and Acer will reportedly focus on producing ultra-thin laptops for the rest of 2009.

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Tags: Acer, ASUS, Business, delay, Laptops, Laptops, Mobile News, netbooks, netbooks, Notebooks, ultra-thin

How many of you netbook users wish that your ultra-portable machine had an optical drive too? Would you pay extra dollars for a model that would offer you an optical drive on board? Well Asus has one such model, the 1004DN which is now available in Taiwan for around $609. The netbook comes with the regular 10.2-inch screen, 1GB of RAM, a 1.66GHz Intel Atom N280 CPU, an Intel GN40 chipset with X4500M graphics, a fingerprint reader, WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity and a CD/DVD burner. What do you think? Is it worth more than the regular netbook?

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Don’t get too excited folks since the Adamo is still an expensive laptop. But Dell decided to reduce its price. That’s a little late considering that Apple has announced cheaper prices for its MacBook, including the direct competitor of the Adamo, the MacBook Air.

Dell is offering you an impressive $500 off the original prices. The cheapest Adamo is now available for just $1,499 while the most expensive is going for $2,299 after the price cut. Still expensive? I told you so!

via Engadget

Tags: Adamo, air, Apple, Dell, Laptops, Laptops, MacBook, Portable Devices, price cut