Month: August 2008

Lenovo X200T Tablet at the FCC, With UWB

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Lenovo ThinkPad X200 Tablet The Lenovo ThinkPad X200T Tablet PC, Lenovo’s widescreen sequel to the ThinkPad X61T Tablet PC is pretty close to being available in North America. It’s now shown up at the FCC.

The thing that struck me was that it (at least the model sent to the FCC) has a “Bluetooth and UWB transmitter” – that is, Ultra Wideband. UWB has a short range, but it’s got a good bandwidth – if it goes through as Bluetooth 3.0 (which I believe it will), to give you a comparison: UWB can transfer data up to 480Mbit/second while Bluetooth version 2.0 + EDR transfers data at up to 3Mbit/sec. It should be able to retain low-power requirements as well.

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Asus F6 / F6V Announced

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Asustek has announced a rather interesting line of 13.3-inch laptops, the Asus F6 / F6V. We’ve already seen laptops with keyboards designed to fight bacteria. Well Asus is making is “freshening” things up with this new line (sorry, couldn’t resist). The F6 / F6V line … Read more

Acer Aspire One at Best Buy

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Acer Aspire One It looks like more of the price drops for the 8.9″ Acer Aspire One netbook / sub-notebook are starting to pop up, and this time in a retail store in the US.

Best Buy prominently features the Acer Aspire One in today’s (Sunday) flyer. They are calling it an “Exclusive”.

Specifications:
– Model: A0A150-1570
– Windows XP Home
– 1GB of RAM
– 120GB HDD

The SKU shown is 8967335, however it doesn’t yet show up in their online laptop area . When Circuit City started carrying Aspire Ones, many stores didn’t have the hardware needed to display the Aspire Ones (the security hardware that is) because they were much smaller than their normal laptops, and you had to ask somebody to get you one. The same maybe true of Best Buy – they may not be out on display just yet in the actual store. Keep in mind they only guarantee three per store.

This is going to be big over the long term – now that many consumers can get exposed to these things, at this price point, it’s going to force other companies to drop their prices, and more importantly, as many have said, this will be the shove that netbooks need to really become mainstream machines.

Below is the ad:

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New York Times on Netbook Prices

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I’m not the only one talking about the prices of netbooks over the past few days – Matt Richtel over at the New York Times “Bits” section is talking about it as well. Yesterday saw Acer dropping the price on the Aspire One by a … Read more

Apple MacBook Air System Update

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Apple has released a new software / system update for their 13.3″ Apple MacBook Air (all models). It addresses two issues: – Video playback – Processor core idling Apple strongly recommends that any third-party software that users have installed that changes anything having to do … Read more