Month: May 2006

Announced: HP Compaq nc2400

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HP has introduced a major overhaul of their notebook lineup, including a couple of new ultraportable notebooks. The first is the HP Compaq nc2400. The weight starts at 2.8 pounds (no word on if this is with or without the internal optical drive) and is just under an inch thick (0.976 inches to be precise). It may not have a PCMCIA/PC Card slot (or ExpressCard 34/54). This model doesn’t appear to be replacing any other model in their existing lineup, unlike some of the other HP Compaq notebooks introduced today.

Review: Fujitsu P1510D (Mobile Tech Review

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Mobile Tech Review has published their review of the Fujitsu LifeBook P1510D hybrid notebook (hybrid in the sense that, like the ThinkPad X41, it functions as a Tablet PC while still retaining a physical keyboard). The P1510D has an 8.9-inch widescreen display, and is powered by an Intel Pentium M Ultra Low Voltage (ULV) CPU. It has gotten a tremendous amount of interest because of it’s size and functionality (the thing weighs just over two pounds) and while the CPU isn’t the fastest around, people are buying them for that.

Is Today the Day for a 13.3 or 12.1 inch MacBook?

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So is the much discussed 12-inch iBook and PowerBook replacement just around the corner? The rumor mills are churning out all kinds of information; that it will have a 13.3-inch widescreen display, that it will be called the MacBook and will replace both the 12-inch and 14-inch iBooks, as well as the 12-inch PowerBook, that it will be priced slightly higher than previous iBooks, slightly thinner, multiple colors (I would imagine black and white and nothing more), that it will be based on Core Duo or there will be both Core Duo and Core Solo versions available.

I would have said that it would be Core Duo only, since the price difference between the two is small, and the Duo offers a lot more, but the Intel Mac mini proved me wrong, and having a Core Solo CPU would definitely differentiate between the MacBook and MacBook Pro – in the past, the gap between the iBooks and PowerBooks had narrowed considerably, and now is Apple’s chance to widen that again.

Samsung’s Flash memory Harddrive – Windows Vista Only

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The Register is reporting that Samsung and Microsoft will have a demonstration of Samsung’s new Flash-based harddrive here in a few weeks at WinHEC (Windows Hardware Engineering Conference). Flash-based harddrives have a lot of advantages – especially in the area of durability, but the initial expense will be one of the largest hurdles to widespread adaptation (there are technical hurdles, but by the time these things are ready to ship, those should be overcome).

It looks like Microsoft Windows Vista will be the first Operating System to support such storage, so it’ll be a while before anybody sees these drives in production machines.