The Lenovo U.S. Company, which is the fourth in the world by volume of production of personal computers, announced that it will produce S12Series netbooks with a new filling. Now, instead of Intel Atom processor and Nvidia Ion motherboard manufacturer will use the VIA Hardware.
The company has changed the platform in order to make Lenovo netbooks more productive, especially when playing high definition video and processing graphics. With such netbook you can watch video in 1080p, while using external monitor with a larger diagonal.
The basic configuration of the new series of netbooks: VIA Nano processor with frequency of 1.3 GHz, RAM DDR2 1 GB of 150 GB hard drive, integrated graphics chip Chrome9 HC3, Wi-Fi-port, 12.1-inch display.
Netbooks will be equipped with a six-cell battery, weigh is 1.2 kg and be sold with the licensed copy of Windows XP at a price of 449 dollars.
This is a removable sound card USB Tube Delight Audio for PCs, which connects via USB-port. To such a transparent vacuum tube, you can connect headphones, speakers and microphone.
When the device works, it shines giving an additional visual effect. The brightness of light depends on the mode of sound cards.
In fact, this solution is rather decorative, as modern computers, notebooks and netbooks have built-in sound card.
USB Tube Delight Audio will work on computers with operating systems Window 2000/XP/Vista, Mac and Linux. Its size is approximately 23x23x45 mm, and weight is 12 grams. The price of the device is 32 dollars.
Every day we write about the latest gadgets in the world, but today we would like to draw your attention not on a gadget. We have all heard that often the cost of the gadget does not exceed the value of its production, as the main revenue producers receive the related fee-based services (the sale of music, programs, books, subscriptions, etc.). And to complete the background we have only to recall the system of additional contract mobile operators that allow buying a new phone model for peanuts.
The operator Vodafone UK has announced that will spread netbooks Samsung NC10 with built-in 3G modem in the country. We’d like to point out its main characteristics:
- Diagonal LCD screen 10.2 inches
- Screen resolution 1024×600 points
- Processor Intel Atom
- RAM 1 GB
- Hard Drive 160 GB
So, the operator gives a laptop to its subscribers for free. But for it you have to sign a contract for 25 pounds per month (1GB traffic) or 30 pounds per month (3GB) for 24 months.
If you have a full 3G coverage this is an excellent variant. Let’s hope that this method of propagation of netbooks will be taken by other operators in other countries. I would be happy to have such a contract, and what about you?
