IT Reviews has published a new review of the Fujitsu-Siemens LifeBook S2110, a lightweight AMD Turion-powered notebook with a 13.3-inch display (which is unfortunately not widescreen). It’s one of Fujitsu’s first AMD-powered “professional” ultraportables (‘S’ series = professional), and is 64-bit capable, and has the added feature of adding a second battery in place of the optical drive.
TG Daily has more information about Samsung’s upcoming NAND flash-based drives. We already know they are using the 1.8″ small form factor and are come in 32GB capacities, but we speculated about power consumption and speeds, and now we have the specs (only from Samsung’s PR though): they can read data at 57MB/s and write at 32MB/s (which according to TG daily is about twice as fast as a normal 1.8″ drives. They are being called “solid state disks” (or SSDs).
CNET Asia has some information about fuel-cell setups that many of us have been anticipating:
Its UC25 deploys readily available, low-cost methanol fuel in a compact package, and features twice the energy density of Lithium batteries at 25 watts of continuous power. In short, that means you can get nearly two days of juice for your laptop.
It should come out at the end of this year, and it looks like you could use it to power/recharge an existing notebook through an adapter (I’m hoping that’s the case). This has only been talked about for the last few years.
OnTheRun with Tablet PCs #17 features a discussion of the Toshiba M400 Tablet PC (that’s also an ultraportable convertible – having both a Tablet PC interface and a physical keyboard). The M400 has generated a lot of interested, as it’s one of the first small notebooks/tablets to utilize Intel’s new CPU, the Centrino/Core Duo.
There’ s a good article at MobilityToday.com about security for mobile users – it looks at physical and network security, as well as what are the major threats (not just laptop theft). Well-written, and covers what they consider to be five major areas that mobile users need to be aware of: physical security, application/data security, network security, physical device theft, and wireless security.