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BenQ said the company has launched its latest ultra-portable netbook named Joybook Lite U102, which is designed for the always-connected, on-the-go, style-setting Internet enthusiast.

Deluxe online fun rivaling laptop performance is made possible by Intel’s Atom processor, a 10.1-inch UltraVivid 16:9 WSVGA LED-backlit screen, a 250GB HDD, connection essentials, and cool web conveniences.  Despite its heavyweight Internet capabilities, the U102 travels light and easily at much less the laptop load - weighing about 1kg, under an inch in thickness, and is accompanied by an unusually petite AC adapter.

Joybook Lite U102 is an accessory for today’s social Internet butterfly, as it can make sharing videos and photos effortless with a high-resolution webcam, crystal-clear built-in speakers, and integrated microphone with smart noise suppression and echo cancellation.
Accessing all the wonders of the World Wide Web - such as surfing, messaging, email, and shopping - is always reliable via wide-coverage, high-speed WiFi and optional 3.75G HSUPA.  A clever hotkey even enables instant switching between the different types of wireless networks.  And because instant messaging can get quite intense, the U102 is fitted with a comfortably-sized keyboard (90% of full-size QWERTY) for more ergonomic, error-free typing, while an expanded touchpad makes scrolling web pages much easier.

Whatever content, wherever setting, the U102’s 10.1-inch 1024×600 widescreen is sure to display in brilliant, true colors and clean definition.  In particular, HD content is immaculately rendered without distortion or annoying black bars, courtesy of the native 16:9 aspect ratio, which ensures 1:1 mapping to HD content.  For boundless “anywhere” enjoyment and use, BenQ’s exclusive UltraVivid technology coupled with LED-backlighting advantages optimize color and vibrancy whether viewing content indoors or outdoor.

Ultra-extreme portability distinguishes the U102 as an essential companion for today’s worldly Internet traveler.  Featherweight at 1.05kg (2.3lbs.) and under an inch in thickness, the U102 is powered by Intel’s low-power-consuming processor, Atom. Paired with BenQ’s power-conserving advancements, the Atom enables overall higher energy efficiency and extends battery life.

In fact, the included 3-cell battery can last an unsurpassed three hours.  For serious uninterrupted U102 joy, an optional 6-cell battery enables nearly six hours of operation.  When non-stop operation is required, the petite AC adapter is light to tote at around 200g.  A 250GB hard disk storage, three USB 2.0 slots, and a 4-in-1 card reader afford easy access to photos, music, and other media.

As with all BenQ digital lifestyle innovations, the U102 is engineered to capture the personality and style of its target audience not only in product purpose, but in aesthetics.  A spirit of spontaneity and playful sophistication is reflected in its svelte form - a beautifully sculpted casing in a polished obsidian finish.

Acer seems poised to acquire Dell as the world’s second-largest seller of personal laptop computers, which, if it comes true, will certainly enable Acer to follow only Hewlett-Packard (HP).

No Taiwanese firm has made an achievement so fast and more effectively than Acer. To reach the number 3 spot in the global laptop computers business, Acer went through a corporate reinvention that offers fodder for business-school case studies.

For nearly 15 years, Acer suffered from a split personality. One part of the company built computers for other PC sellers that would then put their labels on the machines. Another part of Acer sold very similar computers under the company’s own brand.

The arrangement created obvious conflicts, Acer executives say, with the group responsible for the Acer-branded products competing against the customers of the manufacturing arm.

In 2000, Acer began cleaving off its manufacturing division. A year later it formed an independent company called Wistron to handle these operations. A smaller, nimbler Acer emerged, outfitted with a new logo and lofty, global aspirations.

With a clean slate, Acer made what looked like counterintuitive decisions. It decided to focus on laptop computers for consumers, and to sell them through partners and retailers, avoiding any kind of direct sales.

This approach placed Acer on a distinctly opposite path from Dell, which was the PC industry’s major success story in 2000. Dell had surged past rivals like Compaq, I.B.M. and H.P. through an ultra-lean direct sales model that hinged to a large degree on shipping desktop computers to big businesses.

In the subsequent years, however, computer retailing shifted in favor of Acer. Consumers now buy more computers than businesses do, and these buyers tend to prefer laptop computers to computer desktops. The advantages that Dell once gained by mixing and matching components for customers at its factories have faded as consumers have flocked to stores to buy preconfigured computers.

Acer’s ascent has accelerated during the global economic slowdown. The company made an aggressive move into the market for netbooks - the small, low-cost laptop computers that have been a rare bright spot during the worst slump the PC industry has ever faced. Dell, which depends far more on PC sales to businesses, has struggled as companies have avoided buying new computers.

Last year, Acer’s market share grew by three percentage points, to 10.9%, while Dell gained just 0.1 percentage point, to 15%, according to the research company IDC. Acer has continued to narrow that gap this year, claiming 11.6% of the market to Dell’s 13.6% through the first quarter.

Acer can keep growing, especially in the United States and China - the two most prized regions for PC sellers. In addition, he’s steering Acer into cellphones, arguing that the growing similarities between smartphones and laptop computers play directly to Acer’s strengths.

In the meantime, Acer has snatched the mantle of quick-moving, lean operator from Dell. Be it wireless technology or super-thin laptop computers with a long battery life, Acer often ships computers with new features before any other large PC maker.

When it spots a hot trend started by another company - netbooks or small laptops, for instance, were the brainchild of Asustek, a fellow Taiwanese company - Acer follows in force, bombarding the market with low-cost in Aspire One Acer mini laptop products.

Some Taiwanese companies have developed reputations as leaders in technology, like Asustek which practically has invented the most popular category of personal computers today, the ultralight Web-oriented laptops known as netbooks.

They managed to develop such reputations as Taiwanese manufacturers along with Western technology companies have, for more than a decade, had a simple and mutually beneficial arrangement.

The Taiwanese companies built music players, laptop computers and cellphones to precise specifications dictated by customers like Apple, Hewlett-Packard and Motorola. The Western companies then slapped their familiar labels on the devices, marked up the prices and bombarded consumers with advertisements celebrating their innovative wares.

But in the last couple of years, that tight relationship has begun to fray. No longer content to lurk in the background, some of the Taiwanese companies have sought a more direct route to consumers - and the higher profits that come with owning a global brand.

Acer, for instance, has poised to overtake Dell as the world’s second-largest PC maker after Hewlett-Packard, has used its manufacturing might to produce powerful PCs that it can sell more cheaply than its competitors. And HTC developed the first smartphones to use Google’s Android operating system, becoming a showcase for the potential of the new software.

Moreover, Asustek ended last year as the fastest-growing PC company in Europe. Acer, which sells computers under its own name as well as through acquired brands Gateway, eMachines and Packard Bell, is the fastest-growing PC maker over all, according to the research company Gartner.

This year, many Taiwanese laptop computer makers are showing ultralight, full-featured laptops that cost less than US$600 and other machines that can operate all day on one battery charge. Meanwhile, American companies like Intel and Microsoft are talking about their chips and software aimed at very thin, cheap new laptops and computers with sophisticated touch-screen technology.

Next year, Computex could well stand as the showcase for breakthrough smartphones, as those devices approach the capabilities of basic PCs. Acer, Asustek and HTC stand out as the most prominent examples of Taiwanese companies entering the limelight.

In the last few years, Acer and Asustek have split off their manufacturing arms and chosen to compete directly against the likes of H.P. and Dell in the PC market with their own brands.

Acer started doing their own brand, and they started seeing their profits go up and up,” said Joseph Wei, who runs SJW Consulting, a Silicon Valley business that links United States and Asian technology companies. “So the Taiwanese government started to encourage more companies to follow this model.

The GX723 is the latest series of MSI Notebook that comes in an AC mode that allows the user to merely touch the turbo button above the keyboard and increase the speed of the CPU.

It has a power management function to extend the battery running time while performing different tasks. The user can touch the ECO quick launch touch sensor repeatedly to switch among the five different modes - Gaming laptop mode, Movie mode, Presentation mode, Office mode, and Turbo Drive mode while performing game applications, playing multimedia applications, performing presentation applications, dealing with office documentation tasks, or looking forward to minimizing the battery power consumption.

Besides, GX723 gaming laptop has a wide 17-inch LCD monitor that allows the user to have a viewing pleasure, reach the perfect experience whether we are playing games or watching a DVD. With the best and latest nVIDIA Geforce GT 130M 3D graphic card (Build-in DDR3 512 VRAM), exclusive MSI vivid image enhancement technology, GX723 is able to create the most astonishingly realistic audio and visual effects. Recognized and approved by the highest standards of Dolby® Theater Class 5 speakers, delivering a real-life listening enjoyment even further.

Furthermore, the GX723 gaming laptop features the latest Intel® Centrino® 2 Processor Technology, which uses Intel® Core™2 Duo processor and Intel® PM45 Express Chipset, to deliver innovative mobile solutions with unrivaled processor performance, stunning new HD capabilities, great wireless connectivity, and long battery life for full blu-ray movie playback.

As described above, GX723 has applied the aerodynamic touchpad design, using a simple black mirror plate as base and red linings to accentuate the slickness of the faceplate. There are no added accessories, and under the icy colors evolve a sense of elegance and professionalism. It creates a sharp contrast to the red outer body, adding even more individualism to the GX723.

Verizon Wireless, the largest wireless carrier in the US, will beginning May 17 sell a netbook model made by Hewlett-Packard, as laptops have wrinkled in size and price and cellphones have turned larger in size and capability, so they are more and more overlapping in function.

This netbook is an adequate light-duty computer, and the price is low for a PC with a hard disk running Windows XP. But Verizon’s charge for Internet service is high if we intend to depend on that service as our major online connection, since the data levels covered by the carrier’s plans aren’t unlimited, and cost extra after we exceed a certain amount. It makes much more sense if we travel extensively, stay within the data limits each month, and want to avoid hotel and airport Wi-Fi fees.

Still, the Verizon service is slower than many Wi-Fi connections, and it can be obtained for almost any laptop by buying a plug-in card that carries the same monthly fees. In my tests, at a typical Marriott hotel, the Verizon cellular service achieved download speeds of around 1.6 megabits per second, while the Wi-Fi modem in the same PC got over five mbps.

Besides, the hardware has some noteworthy downsides. The keyboard feels too flexible, and some symbols on the function keys are hard to read. The mouse buttons are awkwardly arrayed on the sides of the touch pad, not below it. And the speaker, while loud, is tinny. Also, the machine has a bunch of craplets, mostly links to H-P Web sites or to companies like eBay and Pandora.

If you like small laptops/netbooks with touchscreens, now you can see and buy them at FidoHub. The Touchscreen laptop kits for Small laptops using a kit from Hoda Technology. The company offerings touchscreen conversion kits for several types of small laptops/netbooks, offerings included touchscreen conversions for the MSI Wind U100, Samsung NC10, Dell Inspiron Mini 9, Lenovo S9 and S10 and some of the Eee PC 1000 series. And today we see  the new touchscreen laptop kits for small laptops found in the original 8.9-inch Acer mini laptop.

We say thanks to Netbook Mag guide for the Samsung NC10, You can see more Samsung NC10 touchscreen kit installation tutorial in Netbook Mag site, they guide it and also hold pictures according to details for you. You also can see more about Samsung NC10 work with touchscreens via video. We see it not bad, better idea and the displays/conversions support Windows, Mac, and Linux.

The last touchscreen laptop kits for small laptops is work on the original 8.9-inch Acer mini laptop machine, a kit that is similar to the Samsung NC10 but basically a plug-and-play, no soldering, cutting or splicing of cables in the small laptops machine, but you can buy touchscreens kits apart with the small laptop, available for $96 plus shipping also handling.

The company also mention a 15% reduction due to the small laptops touchscreen and you get three internal USB connections from the new controller, included a stylus. You can see more and thanks to Netbook Italia (translated - English) guide about touchscreen laptop kit in Acer mini laptop.

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Asus has introduced Laptop’s N20A model recently. Today Asus laptop presents more about two model N80V and N50V Asus laptops with the targets are student and home user. We have seen both is 14.1-inch N80V and the 15.4-inch N50V, seeing picture above is very similar to N20A Ultraportable Asus laptop, although both of it looks same but the specs both are quite different.

The N80V and N50V Asus laptops come with feature Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T9400 / P8600 / P7350, up to 4GB of RAM, the video graphics is a NVIDIA’s GeForce 9300M with 512MB of VRAM. The N80V has capacity 320GB of HDD while the N50V uses 500GB bigger capacity of HDD. The Display in N80V boasts a WXGA and the NV50 has better Display an WXGA/WXGA+/WSXGA+ AI Light Sensor embedded LCD. There again, both Asus laptops feature are same runs on Windows Vista, Intel PM45 Express Chipset, Bluetooth, Blu-ray DVD Burner and web camera.

Link to another Asus laptop: ASUS Eee PC 1000HA 10-Inch Netbook (1.6 GHz Intel ATOM N270 Processor, 1 GB RAM, 160 GB Hard Drive, XP Home, 6 Cell Battery) Pearl White

Source 1 » ASUS N80V.

Source 2 » ASUS N50V.

The Touchscreen laptops maybe will go around at next year, we have known that HP has declared the brilliant idea to take outside their touchscreen Laptops first. I say actually we could just say that we were waiting for the news from Apple, and I know, most of they are waiting touchscreen laptops, asking around, when will available? Well, now we already know about Asus’ will release their first touchscreen Asus laptop in 2009.

Asus Computer is planning to release a touchscreen Eee PC Asus laptop, if news source is true, in preparation for Windows 7 which will show officially up next year but, expectedly this not odd–or may be Windows 7 officially will launch on next year? If their claim is true, Asus likely use either a AU Optronics or Chi Mei Optoelectronics 11.6 or 12.1 inch touchscreen panel versions. Sure you know that still long, which again often happen to delay such as those which happen its Vista delays. But sometimes the rumors might be right, we will wait the next development although Asus Computer surely has enough time to announce touchscreen Asus laptop.

Read on Digi Times

That’s true, Apple’s event on Tuesday 14th at 10AM Pacific. Of course at days coming there more news and analysis about Apple Laptops. Thank’s to Engadget that have a time to present there.

You can see all those of  Apple’s “Spotlight Turns to Notebooks” on Engadget site.

Do you love Toshiba laptop computers? From some choices Laptops brands, in your mind, sure the one is Toshiba. Toshiba laptop computers famous at world, and now they are announcing latest two for business users. Both 15.4-inch Satellite Pro S300 and the 14-inch Satellite Pro S300M. You can choose one as according to your business need, both include a 2-year warranty.

The price of Toshiba laptop computers is $899 of  Satellite Pro S300M with features Intel Core 2 Duo Processor (T5870), 3GB of RAM, a 250GB hard drive and DVD burner, WiFi / Bluetooth, Intel’s GMA 4500MHD integrated of video graphics. Besides also there built-in webcam and 9-cell battery. If you want to choose Toshiba Satellite Pro S300, that sell at the price of $829, with feature much the same pretty an Intel Core 2 Duo Processor, 2GB of RAM, 160GB hard drive and a DVD burner. Both Toshiba Laptop computers runs on Vista Business and  Windows XP.

Update: Now Cheap new laptops from Toshiba available for your business. Check out the Satellite Pro S300-series below:

Satellite Pro S300-EZ1511

Satellite Pro S300-EZ1512

Satellite Pro S300-EZ1513

Toshiba Satellite Pro S300-EZ1514 15.4″ Notebook PC - Intel Core 2 Duo T6570

Source » Notebooks.