China's sub-Â£100 PC launches
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Unveils P4-speed successor A Chinese PC vendor has begun shipping a box with its homegrown Godson CPU, with a price tag of between $175 to $200. Thanks to current exchange rates, that's under Â£100. Eventually, though, OEM ZhongKe Menglan Electronics expects to sell the unit for $125.â¦
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A small handheld computer from Lenovo that's only available in China right now surfaces at CES 2008.
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San Francisco (dpa) - Microsoft is working toward a bare-bones personal computer that would cost less than 100 dollars and could help stem rampant software piracy in emerging countries, CEO Steve Ballmer said Wednesday, according to tech news service ZDNet
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Desktop features BTX motherboard for improved airflow.
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Hewlett-Packard Co. HPQ.N, the  world's number-two PC maker, said on Friday it has launched a  3,999 yuan ($483) computer in China, turning up the heat in the  intensely competitive market.
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(InfoWorld) - Taiwan's First International Computer (FIC) will unveil an ultraportable PC at the Computex show this week in Taipei. The CE260 is based on a 1.2GHzÂ C7-M processor from Via Technologies, has a 7-inch touchscreen display with 800 pixels by 480 pixels resolution, and boasts a five-hour battery life, the company said in a statement. Weighing in at just under 1 kilogram, the machine packs 802.11b/g wireless networking, a wired LAN port, and a 4-in-1 card reader slot. FIC is a contract PC maker and doesn't sell machines under its own brand. The CE260 will be on show at Computex in front of buyers from the world's PC vendors and available to them to customize and market under their own brand. Possible additions to the base specification include a detachable clock/calendar, Skype phone, DVB-T digital TV Tuner or GPS (global positioning system) module. Taiwan is a major manufacturer of PC and consumer electronics goods and Computex, which takes place annually in Taipei, brings the island's IT manufacturers together with buyers from big-name electronics brands and retailers from around the world. Ever since Intel unveiled its ultramobile PC platform at Cebit 2006 and Samsung Electronics took the wraps off the first machine based on that platform,Â the Q1,Â there has been increased interest in the market for sub-notebook-size laptops. Machines matching the form factorÂ are expected to be a big theme of Computex 2007.
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc. next week plans to unveil a sub-$300 PC for the developing world as the company tries to get a jump on a potentially enormous market.
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The retailer trots out a portable PC for less than $600. Is it getting ready for a laptop push for the holidays?
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PC maker to launch new line of cooler, quieter business desktops.
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Taiwanese company E-Ten doesn't have much brand recognition in the US yet, but it received some notice last year for releasing the "world's thinnest pocket PC" with its Glofiish X500. Now it's adding one more for the value tier.
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Game-friendly desktop PC uses fans and a wind tunnel to bring down the temperature and the noise.
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The newly released PC is the company's seventh all-in-one PC.
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Some five years after the concept of a so-called "$100 laptop" was proposed, the first devices began rolling off a production line in China this week.
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(InfoWorld) - If the Internet radio with iPod port and laptop PC built for microprocessor overclocking that Asustek Computer showed off on Monday are any indication of things to come at the Computex Taipei 2007 trade show, then be prepared for a few surprises. Asustek designed the C90 laptop PC for overclocking by adding extra heat sinks and other cooling systems to ward off overheating, the company said at a news conference ahead of the Computex trade show, which opens Tuesday. It plans to sell a barebones version of the device worldwide so users and companies can add whatever microprocessors, graphics processors, memory, and optical disc drives they want, as well as offer its own laptops aimed at the high-end market, meaning the price could top $2,000 on some models. Users looking to lower their laptop costs can add a desktop PC processor to the C90. The cooling systems ensure the laptop can handle desktop microprocessors, which are normally less expensive and more powerful than processors aimed at laptops. The major drawback with a desktop processor in a laptop, however, is that it uses more power, so battery life would suffer. The C90 will debut worldwide in mid-June. The company also showed off two Internet radios that operate from wireless Internet connections. They don't need to be hooked up to a PC. The main difference between the two is that the Asustek Internet Radio 3 (AIR 3), comes with an iPod dock on top. When users plug in an iPod, they can listen to their favorite songs from speakers inside the AIR 3. The device also includes a USB (Universal Serial Bus) port, allowing users to plug in flash sticks and listen to songs off them instead, according to Chris Yu, product manager at Asustek's digital home division. Despite the USB, the device will not play songs from digital music players other than the iPod, he said. The AIR 3 will launch in time for end-of-the-year holidays in the U.S. and Taiwan, Yu said, and cost around $400. The smaller AIR 1, which does not include an iPod port, will cost $200. Asustek also showed off two high quality PC Web cameras. These 2-megapixel cameras will be out at by the end of August in Europe, the Asia Pacific and Taiwan. They will launch in the U.S. next year. The difference between the two is that the one camera has an auto-focus lens. It costs about $20 more than the one without an auto focus lens. The company expects the cameras to cost between $90 and $110. The Asus A33 media player aims to combine a stereo receiver, DVD player and VCR (video cassette recorder) all in one. But it's not cheap. The media player costs $1,600, equipped with a Super Multi DVD (digital video disc) rewriter, a 320GB hard drive, a dual channel TV tuner, embedded amplifier and wireless (Bluetooth and Wi-Fi 802.11n) connections, and allows full HD 1080p TV recording. Asustek also plans to offer lower-end models and will produce the devices for partner companies, possibly requiring some specs to be changed. An A33 without the amplifier, for example, will cost under $1,000. "You have to offer dual channel recording these days," said Terry Huang, a marketing specialist at Asustek. "People may want to watch one show while they record another, or two others. Some day, we'll have to put 10 tuners on so people can record multiple TV shows." The A33 will be available in August in Taiwan and in September in other parts of Asia, Huang said. By the first quarter of 2008, he expects the company to launch its first high-definition disc player, likely a Blu-ray Disc device. "We prefer Blu-ray because the storage space is bigger," Huang said. The company hasn't put one out yet because the cost of such devices remains high and there aren't enough movies and other content yet available for the devices, he said.
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New lineup of low-cost PCs includes with some multimedia capabilities.
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A new chipset offers high-end features for less cash, an effort to spark PC makers to update their low-price offerings.
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Prototype products include the first such drive for use in a PC.