Hands on with Toshiba's light laptop
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In the race to make ever lighter laptop computers, Toshiba Corp. is poised to take the lead in the 12-inch screen class with new models coming this month.
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The first laptop computer to feature an HD DVD-R drive, Toshiba's Qosmio Q30, went on sale in Japan over the weekend.
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Smaller, lighter and cheaper is the order of the day for laptop vendors as they struggle to find new types of devices that will appeal to users.
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Lenovo is providing a new weapon for enterprise road warriors with the introduction of a widescreen notebook computer that looks like a lightweight but packs plenty of punch.
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And it's thief-proof Toshiba today unveiled its latest widescreen projector. The TLP-WX2200U model features a palm-sized control panel that allows users to assign a password to prevent unauthorised access to the projector â so presumably no one will be able to mess with your slides before that important presentation.â¦
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In this one-minute video, Wired's Jose Fermoso checks out Apple's new, ultra-light, ultra-slim MacBook Air.
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Colorful, lighweight Inspiron consumer notebooks use flash memory instead of hard drives.
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Steve Jobs wowed the Macworld audience when he unveiled the slim, ultraportable MacBook Air notebook, but users and analysts say its lack of some important features may make it unattractive to buyers.The&#160;ultraportable notebook, launched at the conference and expo on Tuesday, has a 13.3-inch wide-screen display and a full-size backlit keyboard. It uses a 1.8-inch hard drive, also found in the iPod, and a smaller version of Intel&#39;s Core 2 Duo processor.Apple has also developed a program called Remote Disk, with which users can download software from the optical drive of a nearby computer using built-in 802.11n wireless networking. At 3 pounds (1.3 kilograms), Jobs called it the lightest and thinnest notebook on the planet.Scott Armstrong, a Mac user, was watching the Web for news from the show as Jobs unveiled the notebook, which is .076 inch at its thinnest part and from 0.8 inch to 1.2 inches high, by removing it from a business-size manila envelope. For all its impressive features, it does not meet the needs of Apple&#39;s traditional multimedia audience, said Armstrong, who is also president of the Macintosh Users Group in Kennewick, Wash.One omission is a FireWire communications port, which is necessary to transfer big multimedia files, Armstrong said. Apple has led the effort to promote FireWire, so it&#39;s surprising it wasn&#39;t included in MacBook Air, Armstrong said. One USB port isn&#39;t enough, he said.The machine lacks storage capacity and, at 4,200 rpm, the hard drive is really slow, Armstrong said. &quot;Most people would like to have features in their laptops. This product is for people who won&#39;t need stuff or hook stuff up,&quot; Armstrong said.It may be targeted at students, who could sacrifice features for portability, Armstrong said. &quot;They haven&#39;t discontinued the MacBook and MacBook Pro notebook models, so they are doing it for a niche market,&quot; Armstrong said.The Air&#39;s novelty value could attract buyers, but the $1,799 starting price tag is too heavy for a machine lacking features.&quot;They won&#39;t stay with this for long, they&#39;ll come out with something more innovative with Air,&quot; Armstrong said.The MacBook Air is a mismatch with Apple&#39;s price-sensitive customers, such as educators and those who do creative work and require significant storage for music, photos, and video, Citigroup said in a research note on Wednesday. Moreover, ultraportable-laptop users are generally Windows-based PC users, not Mac users, Citigroup said.While the product could be a long-term success, Apple will produce the laptop in small volumes until more features are added, Citigroup said.Unlike&#160;Asus&#39;s Eee PC, the MacBook Air may sell slowly because of its high price point and overlapping functionality with the existing MacBook and MacBook Pro lines, said Shaw Wu, an analyst with American Technology Research, in a research note. However, Apple is adept with product placement, as shown by the iPhone and iPod, where there has been minimal cannibalization despite overlapping functionality, Wu said.The MacBook Air may be niche, but Apple could be pioneering the adoption of future technologies&#160;such as&#160;wireless communication between devices, said Jim Ritz, a Mac user and member of the Apple Pi user group in Rockville, Md.Users were concerned when Apple got rid of the floppy drive, and now Apple is now betting that the time for wireless networking has come by removing the Ethernet port and including wireless storage, Ritz said.Adding more wireless features establishes Apple&#39;s intent to change the way users look at ultraportable laptops, Ritz said. &quot;I&#39;m curious to see what the notebook looks like a year from now.&quot;Ritz has a plan that will help him afford to buy a MacBook Air, which he wants to try out -- he says he&#39;s going to offer to sell his recently purchased MacBook to his wife.&quot;It&#39;s a costly little puppy no doubt, but all new things are expensive,&quot; Ritz said of the MacBook Air.Apple officials could not be reached for comment regarding concerns with the MacBook Air that were raised by Mac enthusiasts and analysts.
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By Frank Norton, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Feb. 22--Lenovo is hardly a household name in this country.
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Thatâs what Cisco Cheng has to say about the performance of the 17-inch MacBook Pro. Earning a four-star editorâs rating, the MacBook Pro, Cheng says, â is the only 17-inch laptop that can be labeled as both a thin-and-light laptop and a desktop replacement. Itâs thin-and-light in that it weighs a mere 6.7 pounds, yet with its drool-inducing 17-inch widescreen, it can kick your current desktop to the curb.â
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Iâve recently been thinking about picking up a new laptop computer and handing off my Compaq (which has worked great over the past 3 years) to my wife for her excursion into the travel industry.
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Toshiba&#39;s new desktop-replacement multimedia notebooks, introduced on Tuesday, are further evidence that US consumers still have yet to embrace the mobility offered by Intel&#39;s newer mobile processors.
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A multitalented mouse and a Webcam designed expressly for notebooks are among the newly launched peripherals.
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Laptop design has advanced a great deal over the past decade, but a few things still generally hold true: Batteries won't last through a cross-country flight, and affordable laptops weigh too much.
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Aimed at the education sector, the laptop will feature, among other things, a flash-based hard drive and a "wireless music server." But, the company says, it's "not really about the specs."
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If my hunch is correct,â writes Julio Ojeda-Zapata , âbusiness-class airliner cabins will be filled with corporate types whipping out their MacBook Airs for work amid admiring glances from seatmates.â MacBook Air, after all, âis one sexy portable,â a laptop that âscreams luxury with its extra-bright display (a newfangled light-emitting-diode variant) and a full-size, backlit keyboard that has a great, firm feel.â Ojeda-Zapata suggests that âbusiness types needing ultraportability with style and comfort wonât be able to resist the Air. They can even wedge Windows in there (I did so with no trouble).â
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&quot;Thin and light&quot; is the order of the day in enterprise mobile computing, and road warriors have had the benefit of Intel&#39;s Centrino platform, which has allowed for some featherweight notebook offerings of late.