Laptop choiche

The Skytone Alpha 680 smartbook is famous for being the first convertible netbook based on the Android platform. Other than that there is nothing special about this device. The Alpha 680 doesn’t have very attractive specifications or capabilities.

Actually this tiny device with its 7-inch (800x480) touchscreen display runs on an ARM 11 533 MHz processor with 128MB RAM. The standard storage option is a 1GB flash drive. Optional upgrades include 256MB RAM and 4GB of flash storage. Users who need more storage space can use the SDHC slot for expansion.

The Alpha 680 was announced in May this year. It is expected to hit the market soon.

The Asus Eee PC T91 Tablet netbook was officially announced at the CES. Though the release date is set somewhere in March the guys at bit-tech.net have managed to get their hands on a pre-production Eee PC T91 sample.

According to bi-tech the most notable feature of Eee PC T91 Tablet is the touch-sensitive display with 1024 x 600 native resolution. This 8.9-inch LED-backlit display can rotate up to 180 degrees on a hinge. Not just the screen, but the hinge also rotates by 180 degrees and Asus claims that the Eee PC T91 is the smallest and the slimmest tablet PC up to date when the display screen is folded back on to the keyboard.

The Eee PC T91 is powered by Intel Atom Z520 processor with Intel US15W chipset, 1GB of DDR2 memory and 32GB SSD. It will also include Bluetooth, WiFi 802.11 b/g, 10/100 Ethernet and an integrated webcam. The Eee PC T91 also has options for GPS connectivity, 3G module and DVB-T TV tuner. This tablet netbook runs on Windows XP Home with Service Pack 3 installed. The Eee PC T91 meaures 225x164x25.2-28.4 mm(W x D x H) and weighs less than 1kg with battery attached. Asus has also announced that it is working on another version of this Tablet called T101 with a 10-inch display.

As concluded by bi-tech, “Ultimately, the quality of Asus’ touch screen software is going to determine the fate of this device because, without great software, you’re paying for a feature that might be useful on occasion, but is likely to be a hindrance more often than not. Having not spent time using the software yet, its impossible to gauge the fate of the T91 – keyboard and touch pad issues aside though, the devices build quality is a notch above most other Eee PCs and not too far from the S101. And given the amount of time between now and the expected end of April availability date, we expect the issues we encountered to be resolved. If touch is your thing, this might be worth a look.”

Hewlett Packard presented a mew model on basis of the new AMD Neo platform beside the HP mini 2140 with Intel an atom processor also. The counterpart to Intel is the atom clocks likewise with 1.6 GHz. Whether the new platform can maintain ground against Intel the atom,different analyzes will show soon.

The exact name of this processor is AMD Athlon Neo MV-40. Similar to Dell Inspiron mini 12, this one possesses the HP Pavilion dv2 12.1 tariff with a large screen and a dissolution amounts to usual 1,280 x of 800 pixels. Another big advantage is the dedicated diagram map. Here HP trusts in a ATI Mobility Radeon HD3410. The optimum configuration that consists 500 GB to four GB DDR2 RAM and a large non removable disk. WLAN in the N-standard, a Bluetooth connection and the mandatory Webcam are the only features missing at this one.

Also an external Blue ray drive assembly will be available for the start. Suitably for this HP Pavilion dv2 version is the HDMI exit. Further connections: Three of USB haven and ever a VGA and a LAN connection.

Battery life can last up to 3.5 hours,what can be said is a very good thing that a notebook should have. The weight reaches proud 1.9 kilograms.

Prices start at 520 Euros for the entry-level model. If you want to get all the best features of this notebook you will need to pay an extra 150 Euros.

Samsung has not had a branded laptop in the states (though they were responsible for a Dell ultra portable). That being said the company decided to get its feet wet (so to speak) with its new ultra-portable system.

While initial results do not look shabby (to say the least) I will advise you that this is not a deal breaker. The Q310-34P is packed with a 13-3 inch screen which weighs just under 5 pounds (4.8 to be exact), along with the usual USB 2.0 port, 8X optical drive (sorry no BD), headphones and microphone jack and yes a VGA and HDMI port. You also get a 7 in 1 memory card reader.

While the design is pretty clean and crisp (nothing extravagant) you should be aware that the stacked USB ports might cause a small problem when multiple devices are in use.

The display is OK, and video playback is pretty clean. As for performance its pretty speedy with Vista booting in under 50 seconds thanks to a 2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor.

Wi-Fi and battery life are pretty solid. Although this is an ultra-portable it does have a 6 cell battery that is tested to go for 4 hours and 40 minutes. Wi-Fi reception is also pretty good and yes you will be able to watch Hulu and Netflix (streaming) on your notebook.

All in all Samsungs first attempt to break the ice in the US markets has been a success. Not a resounding success but a solid play against the competition. All is need is is for you to fork over $1200 for this baby.