Ah!
The year 2010. It has brought many surprises for us and some are given to us from the sector of technology in the form of gadgets. Below are some of the best gadgets of the fiscal year 2010.

1. E-ink Display from SEIKO
The first gadget that caught my eye was the new product introduced by SEIKO.  They have decided to bring the world of fashion in their petite digital watches.

• The new screen based electronic ink is the new highlight of the wacth.
• It has minimal power consumption
• It has integrated solar panels which will completely take care of the plant or the need for change the batteries (as you will not require batteries any longer)
• And crisp images
• The 180-degree viewing angle which adds up the advantages
• Screen is also visible at night, it has integrated LED-backlight

2. Samsung Galaxy Tab
An amazing piece of innovation and art. The Samsung Galaxy Tab is also known as the Tablet PC by some. It is:

• A 7 inch product
• High resolution camera
• Has the ability of content consumption
• Has photo and video editing options
• Blue tooth Stylus is a part of the accessories
• It has a price tag of approximately $ 940 USD

3. Concept phone Seabird
A very functional and attractive looking product. It has:

• It is equipped with an 8-megapixel camera
• It has two pico-projectors which are up to 45 lumens at a resolution 960h600
• It comes with a built-in blue tooth-thumb
• It has 3,5 mm jack for headphones
• It has a wireless charging connector mini-USB

4. BlackBerry Play Book
What is this? It is primarily aimed at businessman and employees of corporations. It can do more than just making presentations. It has the following features:

• BlackBerry PlayBook has a steel dual-core processor
• It comes with 1 GHz and 1 GB of RAM
• It has Capacitive touch screen technology to support multi-touch
• The screen is diagonal 7 inches and operates with a resolution of 1024×600 pixels
• The front and back panels are cameras with a resolution of 3 and 5 megapixels, respectively

5. Snooze-Proof Alarm Clock
It is a cute and a small innovation. It is a clock which is Snooze proof. You can never be late again with Clocky. It is an alarm clock that rolls away and out of your reach to keep you from excessively hitting the snooze button and in the end you just find your self out of the bed and AWAKE!

What does it do? When the alarm sounds, Clocky will wait for you to get up. But if     you make the mistake of snooze, Clocky will jump off of your nightstand (from 3 feet), and run around your room, determined to get you up on time. It is hip, innovative and charming. It is avialble in four different colors i.e. Aqua, Almond, Raspberry and Coco.

6. Kindle 3
It is the easiest option as there is no wireless setup. You are ready to shop, purchase, and read right out of the box. It has built-in Free 3G connectivity, which uses the same wireless signals that cell phones use. In addition, there are no monthly fees or commitments as Amazon pays for Kindle’s 3G wireless connectivity. The added convenience of 3G enables you to download books anytime, anywhere, while on the go without even having to find a Wi-Fi hotspot connection. With wireless coverage in over 100 countries and territories, Kindle 3G is a great option for travelers!

7.  Altec Lansing BXR1220 Portable Laptop Speakers
Altec Lansing , they promise to deliver quality stereo sound at a very affordable price tag. You can use these for gaming, music and movies and you will feel that your room has come alive. They have a very elegant design. They are powered by your computer through the USB port.

8. Canon’s Power Shot Digital Camera
Now you can make beautiful memories without breaking the bank with Canon’s Power Shot line of digital cameras. They are simple, easy-to-use cameras and get the job done. CNET calls the Canon Power Shot SD940 IS”one of the best ultra compacts available.” You can also check out the Canon Power Shot SD780 IS. Engadget says about the model, “It’s smaller than a bar of a soap, but goes to 3x of optically stabilized zoom, records 720p video, and allows for pleasingly quick and easy operation.”

9. Livescribe Pulse Smart Pen
The livescribe Pulse “smart pen” is only slightly larger than a normal pen, and is packed with bells and whistles to help students ensure they do not miss a thing. It has a voice recorder with 2GB storage capacity. And, as Time explains, some nifty features: “not only does the Pulse remember everything you’ve written in digital form, it also keeps track of whatever was being said while you were scribbling a detail just tap a word to hear all of what your Professor was saying at that particular moment.” It is fun or what?

10. Andrea’s Plant-based Air Purifier
They promise that using “any type of household plant” the air purifier can absorb toxic gases, such as formaldehyde, from home and office environments and it enhances the natural absorptive properties of living plants. This gadget can be used as a house plant and also it will help you breathe easy.

11. OttLite POD Desk Lamp
It folds into an egg shape to save room space, and includes a cradle in its hollow body that will hold and charge your MP3 player. A small place underneath the lamp also hides unsightly cords.

12. Tassimo’s T20 Home Brewer
It is a compact, quiet, simple, and multipurpose machine. It brews single-cup servings of coffee, tea, hot chocolate, espresso.

13. Dell’s P713w
Another good product introduced by Dell. It is a wireless photo printer (Dell’s P713w) that will print, scan, copy, and can print double-sided documents, via Ethernet cable or WiFi.

14. The Pico Pocket Projector PK100
It will ensure you never again watch a movie on a tiny screen. These miniature projectors, are highly portable and are smaller than many phones and cameras, as compared to most bulky, pricey media projectors and work with cameras, PDAs, phones, and more to show images and video which are larger than life.

15. Logitech Cooling Pad
It can be used with PC and Mac laptops (with up to a 15.4-inch display). It does not blow through your battery power and it keeps your laptop.

1. Micro Express Microflex 82B:

The main specs of this computer include 3-GHz Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 CPU, 2GB RAM, a 250GB Serial ATA hard drive, 17”Samsung 740BX monitor, Windows Vista Business, and an nVidia GeForce 8800GT with 512MB of video memory. Though it is not a perfect gaming PC; it can do quite well for gamers. It costs $699.

The packed keyboard and mouse are quite useful, though not great. It has eight USB ports, gigabit ethernet, and S/PDIF digital audio input. As far as expandability is concerned, there are two PCI and five PCI Express slot, and also a good number of open drive bays. This is a budget PC which is also pretty quiet, and works significantly. This is evidently a nice choice.

Product’s Unique Selling Points:

• Great performance
• Economical price
• Great expandability options
• Quiet system

Limitations:

• Need of more detailed documentation

2. Micro Express Microflex 450B:

Main specs include a 2.83 GHz Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 processor, a single 500GB Seagate ST3500320NS hard drive, 19”LG W1942TQ monitor, Sapphire HD4870 graphics adapter, and a 512MB ATI 4870 graphics card. It costs 1599, which is perfectly economical for the performance it renders. Here is a great performer though very inexpensive as compared to its likes.

Expandability is possible with two 1x PCIe slots and two PCI slots unblocked, plus a CrossFire-enabled 16x PCIe slot (for high-resolution gaming capabilities with a second graphics card), and five external open bays.

Product’s Unique Selling Points:

• Brilliant range of back ports
• Great expandability

Limitations:

• 19” monitor isn’t as wide as those 450B’s rivals provide

3. Gateway FX 6800:

With a price tag of $1250, this is one wonderful performer whether it is about routine tasks or gaming. The main specs include 2.66 GHz Core i7 920 processor, a 3GB of DDR3 1333 RAM, a 750GB Seagate hard drive, and ATI Radeon HD 4850 graphics card.

Included keyboard and mouse are very attractive in looks. There are eight USB ports, two eSATA ports, single FireWire 400 port, on board 5.1 surround sound, and front panel media card reader. Top panel on the front side of PC case also works as a touch control for system. Also, there is a PCI Express x16 device as well as PCI Express x4 and x1 cards.

Product’s Unique Selling Points:

• Core i7
• Great performer
• Good expandability

Limitations:

• A little muddled internal wires

4. Dell Inspiron 518:

The main specs include a 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 CPU, 3GB of PC6400 DDR2 RAM, a 320GB Western Digital Caviar SE16 hard drive (7200 rpm, 16MB cache), and an ATI Radeon HD3450. It is a fine performer, and not a great gaming PC, costing $649.

Beautifully designed, this computer has nice looks. It has neat ad tidy inside, plus there is room for one optical drive and one additional hard drive. Bundled with it is a 20” SP2009W wide-screen LCD monitor. Also, you can find bundled software like Microsoft Works 9, Cyberlink PowerDVD for movie playback, and Roxio Easy Media Creator.

Product’s Unique Selling Points:

• Good documentation
• Fine support
• Strong performance

Limitations:

Adequate gaming

5. Dell Studio Slim:

With a slim and compact design, this PC is a pleasure to look at. It includes 2.33 GHz Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 CPU, 4GB of DDR2 RAM, ATI Radeon HD 3450, 640GB Hard Drive and Dell SP2009WFP monitor. It costs $814.

General performance is quite fine, but this PC works badly with games. It doesn’t have a Core i7 processor, plus there should have been 64 bit Vista instead of the 32 bit Vista version. There are six USB ports, a single FireWire 400 port, integrated 5.1 surround sound, and an HDMI port.

Product’s Unique Selling Points:

• HDMI port
• Above average performance

Limitations:

• Limited upgradeability
• Low gaming performance

Here are the top five functional and economical PCs, one out of which is for you. Check out which one is suitable for you, and bring it home.

Memristor:

It is a circuit component, which was in theoretical form till now since 1971, when a fourth circuit component was founded by a researcher Leon Chua.

It has been transformed into physical form recently, by HP. Memristor is able to measure the flow of electric current.

1. It remembers how much current passes through it.
2. By alternating the amount of passing current, it can act as a one-element circuit component having exclusive qualities.
3. When the current stops flowing, it saves its electronic state.
4. It is able to replace flash memories and RAMs.
5. Allowing greater and denser memories, Memristor is cheaper than flash drives.
6. It can replace RAM chips; this way it will remember exactly what was going on when computer was turned off, when the computer is turned on again.
7. Memristor based computers will be nothing like today’s PCs; they will be capable of accomplishing way complex tasks.

Flash drive re-placer would be available by 2012 whereas the DRAM and hard drives would be replaced by Memristor by 2014-2016. Memristor based computers may take a couple of decades to show up.

32 Core Central Processing Units:

These days, single core computers worth nothing; even dual cores have lost their value since the advent of quad core processing units by AMD and Intel. It is no more a competition of greater Gigahertz. Soon, this war will increase by number of cores, as it defines how much amount of multi tasking can be done with a computer.

Both AMD and Intel are fighting each other hard in the competition of more cores and smaller sizes. The recent beloved 45nm chip is going to be replaced by even smaller sized 32nm chip, by Intel in 2009. Not only the multitasking will be taken care of, but also the size issue is kept in mind.

Intel is focusing on a six core processor which is due soon. Then, the attention shifts to core i7 which is an eight core chip. This is going to be available by the end of 2009 or in 2010. AMD is also working on an eight core project which is due in 2009. Soon after that, we can anticipate a flow of more and more cores; though the exact time of the arrival of this 32-core chip is still unknown.

Nehalem by Intel and Swift by AMD:

Though there is a lot of hype about discrete graphic cards; majority of people are still satisfied with the integrated graphics because of extra cost of separate graphics card, hassle to install it, and the extra battery drainage. Thus, GPUs are being thought to be the bet solution by researchers. In this way, some of the cores of a computer can be allocated exclusively to the graphics. One can envisage the difference…Wow!! Who will think about discrete graphic cards, then?

Both Nehalem and Swift are due I 2009, and include graphic processing, but not on the actual CPU die. Fusion of GPU and CPU is difficult as many issues rise; any ways, those issues like heat can be taken care of. Let us all wait to see that who leads the contest in making the first fusion.

USB 3.0:

USB 2.0 cannot put up with the grand terabyte hard drives, now, thus an up graded version must come out.

The solution is USB 3.0 which is also known as SuperSpeed USB. It is in the last stages of preparation, and is expected to be out in the market by 2010.

1. It will increase the performance by a factor of 10, all the way up to 4.8 gigabits per sec.
2. Connector will be a bit different; although the USB is expected to be backward compatible with current devices.
3. It will enhance the power efficiency of USB devices, which implies that the devices will get charged faster.

Wireless Power Transmission:

Now, we are sick of those long hard cable network stretched along our entire homes. When would technology develop to an extent when we will get the facility of wireless power transmission?

Intel researchers have tried the idea at a small level, and called it “Wireless Resonant Energy Link” technology. A 10 MHz signal was sent through a coil of wire, which was received by a nearby similar coil of wire, both having same frequency. It was able to light up a 60-watt bulb with 70 percent efficiency.

Many hurdles obstruct the implementation of this technology, like a direct current version,

smaller apparatus, safety measures etc. It will take the manufacturers not less than 6-8 years for bringing this technology to your home.

Gesture based remote control:

The era of mice is ending, with the advent of gesture recognition. The working is really simple; by placing a camera on the device, and watching the user’s hand gestures carefully. This way, waving, holding and moving one’s hand in different directions will work as controlling the functions of the computer.

Toshiba has won the competition by releasing the first ever gesture recognition based laptop Qosmio G55. The brand is also working on a similar TV.

64 bit Computing:

32 bit computing is going to be replaced by 64 bit computing wholly, very soon. In fact, many laptops and PCs are using this technology.  It allows for more RAM, but Microsoft is still in no mood to completely shift to 64 bit Windows. Mac OS X Leopard is already 64-bit.

The vista users know the dilemma that OS doesn’t access more than 3GB of RAM, because it doesn’t possess more bits to access the memory. It is likely that Microsoft will adopt 64 bit computing wholly with Windows 8, around 2013. Samsung is planning to push its whole PC line to 64 bit computing in 2009.

Windows 7:

Windows 7 plans to kill and dispose off with Vista, soon. It has a refined look and enhanced security system.  It is expected that the new Windows will bring with them the long awaited WinFS file system. Other expected features include enhanced online integration, more cloud computing and Windows Live services. January 2010 is the release month, whereas a beta is expected in end of this year.

These were few such technologies, which when adopted, will completely change the whole scenario of today’s tech world. The more people demand developed facilities, the more technology advances; and vice versa. Next era is of technology; the highest levels thereof.

Written by “Seemab”

Apple Inc:

Apple Inc. is an American leading brand name in top quality consumer electronic products, though the scope is not wide enough. This company is into manufacturing very small range of products, which consist basically of TV, media player, desktops, laptops and mobile phones.

History:

Apple was established on April 1st, 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne, for selling the Apple I personal computer kit, which consisted of CPU, RAM and keyboard, and lacked monitor and mouse etc. Apple I was sold in July 1976 for $666.66. Apple was incorporated on January 3rd, 1977 without Wayne as he had sold his share of the company to Jobs and Wozniak for $800. By the end of the 70 decade, Apple had a team of computer designers and a manufacture line, too. Apple Lisa was launched in 1983 which failed. Next in the line was Macintosh that appeared in 1984. Mac Portable came in 1989, followed by PowerBook in 1991.In 1997, Apple Store was introduced. 1998 brought iMac, 2001 introduced iPod, and in 2007, Apple TV and iPhone were announced. A great deal of software has also been manufactured by Apple Inc.

Top Products:

1.    Mac and accessories
2.    iPod
3.    iPhone
4.    Apple TV

Sony:

Its name derived from sonus (Latin for sound), Sony Corporation is one of the leading manufacturers of electronic and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets. It is a global corporation having it’s headquarter in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Sony is one of the world’s largest media conglomerates with profits beyond US$99.1 billion.

History:

It originated from a radio repair shop after WW II, in Tokyo, by Masaru Ibuka, who was joined by Akio Morita the next year. They founded a company called Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo K.K, and built Japan’s first tape recorder. They produced Japan’s first commercial transistor radio.

Top Products:

Sony manufactures both consumer and professional goods.

Consumer goods:

1.    Cameras and camcorders
2.    Desktops and notebooks
3.    Home theatre systems
4.    TVs
5.    Blu-ray Disc Products
6.    Home audio components
7.    MP3 players
8.    Reader Digital Book
9.    Mobile Phones
10.    Car Audio
11.    GPS Navigation

Business:

1.    VAIO Professional Notebooks
2.    Projectors
3.    Displays

Asus:

ASUSTeK Computer Incorporated (ASUS) is a Taiwanese multinational company, which produces motherboards, graphics cards, optical drives, PDAs, computer monitors, notebook computers, mobile phones, etc. ASUS appeared in Business Week’s “InfoTech 100″ and “Asia’s Top 10 IT Companies” ranking. It is number one in excellence and service according to Wall Street Journal Asia and leads the IT Hardware category of the 2008 Taiwan Top 10 Global Brands survey with a total brand value of US$1.324 billion.

History:

Former computer engineers at Acer, TH Tung, Ted Hsu, Wayne Hsieh, and MT Liao founded ASUS in 1989 in Taipei, Taiwan. The name was taken from the last four alphabets of Pegasus.

Top Products:

1.    Eee Family
2.    Graphic cards
3.    HSDPA cards
4.    LCD monitors
5.    Mobile Phones
6.    Motherboards
7.    Multimedia
8.    Networks
9.    Notebooks
10.    Optical storage
11.    PC components
12.    PDA

Common Products in all Three Brands:

Though the product list of all these brands is quite long, we have selected few top products which are produced by all of them. These are Laptops, Cell phones, Media players and TVs.

1. Laptops:

All the three brands produce laptops.

Apple:

Apple’s laptops have been named by the company as “MacBook”. There are three categories, MacBook, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air.

Previously known as the iBook, MacBook is a consumer notebook which was introduced in 2006, available in white and aluminum. Other two are its up gradations.

MacBook Pro is a professional lightweight aluminum notebook, with a 17” display and a long lasting battery life, which can last up to 8 hours after being fully charged once. This battery can be charged for 1000 times, which makes its life almost 5 years. It is also world’s lightest 17” laptop with merely 6.6 pounds. Apple claims that this is “the most powerful Mac notebook yet.”

MacBook Air is a uniquely thin, ultra portable notebook, introduced in January 2008. It comes with NVIDIA GeForce graphics, Intel core 2 Duo processor, 13.3-inch widescreen LED-backlit display, 120GB hard drive or a 128GB solid-state drive, and a full-size, illuminated keyboard.

Sony:

Sony has made its name in trendy and stylish laptops. There is no other brand in the market which can compete with the beautiful looks of a Sony Vaio. The Vaio series of Sony is famous for its lustrous eye catching casings and soaring prices. Recently, Sony has added another new laptop in its Vaio series which looks as attractive as its predecessors. Sony’s brand new creation in Vaio series is the VGN-FW351JH, with a core 2 duo processor and Blu-ray combo drive as the main features.

Sony has lately introduced new P-Series Life Style PC in Sony Vaio Brand; a stylish, slim, sleek and light-weighed plastic net book, that can fit into one’s jacket pocket. It is compared to none in the market. The only VAIO P Series model currently listed on the Sony Electronics website is the VGN-P598E/Q. Sony asserts that this is “world’s lightest notebook”.

Asus:

Asus is Europe’s 3rd biggest notebook brand after HP and Acer. Its top notebook brand Eee PC was lunched in October 2007. Recent additions in Eee family are a Dual Touchscreen Flipbook PC, the Fold/Unfold Laptop concept and the Eee PC 1000 HE.  The unique Dual Touchscreen Flipbook PC is created to be used as a laptop, an e-book reader and a multimedia center. The fold/unfold laptop enables two persons to work on the same device at the same time, and also supports a multi-user mode, facilitating more than two users to work in collaboration. Asus claims that the new Eee PC 1000 HE has a long battery life per charge i.e. 9.5 hours. Also, this laptop comes with a sticker that says, “All Day Computing.”

2. Cell Phones:

Apple:

In this line, Apple has astonished the world by creating the all beautiful and functional iPhone. Every brand is striving hard to reach up to iPhone’s level. It is a unique concept of an iPod and an internet enabled cell phone combined in one form. The Apps of an iPhone make it more than a mere cell phone. It can be a dictionary, a TV, a radio, a camera, a book reader, a music composer, a GPS navigator, a wireless gaming console, a clock and what not. There is much more to iPhone.

Sony:

Sony Ericsson is one of the world’s top cellular phones brand, with a wide range of mobile phones. Their phones range from the simple call making and SMS sending models to Touchscreen multimedia phones.

These phones feature applications like Cybershot, Walkman media player, Quickshare etc. The most popular series among youth is W series which features Walkman player. Camera oriented public is addressed by Cybershot series. SE is notorious for their bad joysticks and camera buttons; this is why one can’t find these features in recent models.

Asus:

Asus is not a competitor of above mentioned brands in Phones, as it has a very scanty collection of cell phones. The only listed cell phone at their website is P527, which features a slim design, aluminum cover, GPS, Travelog, News Station, multimedia player and user friendly interface.

3. Media Players:

Apple:

Apple is leading the media player race with its iPod. This digital music player was introduced on October 23rd, 2001, till now, Apple has produced many models of iPod addressing different types of consumers. These models include iPod classic, iPod shuffle, iPod nano and iPod touch.

iPod nano is all aluminum and glass, comes in nine eye catching colors, with a curved outline, and is your personal DJ. This is a compact music media player with a 2 inch bright display to enable video and photo viewing. It has a huge storage capacity and an inbuilt feature called “Genius”, too. It offers inbuilt as well as downloadable games.

iPod shuffle is world’s smallest music player having an ability to talk to the user. About 1000 audio songs can be stored into an iPod Shuffle, and VoiceOver tells about the song details and play lists etc by speaking to you. iPod Touch indicates Touchscreen feature by its very name.

Sony:

Sony has introduced their media player by the name of Walkman. Walkman technology has been widely liked by the world community to the extent that Sony has introduced it in their mobile phones too, in a series labeled as Walkman series. Walkman series mobiles are highly praised due to the quality digital music player that has been loaded into them. Walkman players are available in different sizes and colors.

Asus:

Asus has not stepped into this field yet.

Conclusion:

All these products have their positive and negative sides, as nothing is perfect. But these three brands are among the most cherished labels in technology world for the mentioned products. Apple has made a statement in media player world, as well as in laptop market, on the other hand Sony is famous for their trendy and modish VAIO, and Asus is known for their environment friendly notebooks.

Whenever you shop for such products, go for detailed reviews about competing brands, and choose the best among all. This is how the finest product can be purchased.

It is a pretty bulky computer packed with a great deal of functional features. It has an Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 processor (2, 8 GHz, 3 MB L2 Cache, 1066 MHz FSB), NVIDIA GeForce GT140 DirectX 10 graphics card, 4GB of DDR2 memory, Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit with new Media Centre GUI, and a huge storage with 1 terabyte (1000GB) hard drive. This is enough to store almost anything in your desk top.

It has a Multiformat Burner that supports all current DVD/CD standards, including dual layer DVD-R and DVD+R. with the 8-channel high-definition audio, one can experience lively and powerful 8-channel surround sound from all sides. Also, it has the latest wireless LAN 802.11n draft technology for wireless internet connectivity.

A number of software is also included, like Works 9.0, Microsoft Office Home and Student Edition 2007 (trial version), Corel Draw Essentials 3, Nero Burning ROM 8 Essentials, Nero Recode 3 SE Essentials, Nero Express 8 Essentials, Nero Vision 5 Essentials, Corel MediaOne, and BullGuard Internet Security package etc.

For £489.99, you will get all essentials of a top-notch computer. This is a must have for those who are still into desktops.

Features:

Lightweight:

These notebooks are very lightweight in comparison with their rivals. Usually laptops are an extra burden to lift when you are traveling, this absolutely troubles you a lot. ThinkPad lets you free from such annoyance, and you feel comfortable with these easy to lift notebooks. All the models of X series weigh less than 3 pounds.

Best suited for Crowded Places:

How do you feel when you are traveling by air and working on your laptop, when immediately the person in front of you almost falls in to your lap??? Lenovo X series is best suited for such areas where there is less room for your laptop. These are small, compact and easy to handle wherever you may be. The range starting from a mere 26.67 cm of width and 21.08 cm of depth, there is no counterpart of Lenovo’s compactness.

Large Displays:

Though these are lightweight and compact laptops, their display screens are large enough for you to enjoy the most out of your media. Whether it is your photos, or it is a movie playing, the 12.1” and 13.3” show you the first-rate picture.

Extra Long Battery Life:

While traveling, most significant concern of a laptop user is battery life. X series specifically features long battery life to enable you working for long hours (up to 12 hrs) while traveling.
Low voltage processors, less power greedy displays and latest technology batteries are all factors that make an X laptop hang-on for longer time. Lenovo battery stretch is a power manager which lets you make decisions about extending the battery life from usual in intense circumstances.

Durability:

ThinkPad is durable, if nothing else. It survives extreme situations which other laptops can’t undergo. Solid State drives with no moving parts; Spill-resistant keyboards, each sealed and contained within a tray with special drain holes to guide leakage to the bottom of the system so as to lessen the prospect for damage.

Carbon Fiber/Glass Fiber:

This feature is present in few of the X series laptops, and is used to lighten the weight and strengthen the machine.

Core Technology:

These are constantly offered with the most recent Intel Centrino Duo Mobile Technology, which brings an extensive range of benefits including true parallel processing when running multi-threaded applications or multiple applications simultaneously.  It provides hardware-based safety and improved manageability, along with outstanding functionality, helps speed boot time, loads applications faster, and saves power.

Connectivity:

It is packed with nearly all the latest connectivity tools.

Ultra Green:

Few among the series have received awards for being environment friendly computers. The reasons are:
1. Energy-saving low voltage processors, LED backlit displays and solid state storage drives.
2. Arsenic-free glass / Mercury-free displays.
3. 90% recyclable packaging.

Other Features:

There are some other features, which are as follows:

• The digital microphone and integrated camera make the video conversations on internet much easier and more enjoyable.
• The famous ThinkPad keyboard has nicely spaced keys for better typing experience.
• Samsung SSD; Solid State Drive, initiates functions quicker, and eradicates hard drive crashes; guaranteeing your priceless data stays secure.
• Keyboard is lighted by a little LED light on the top of screen, to work in dark.
• ThinkPad stereo speakers give you a wonderful music experience on your laptop.
• The tiny red Trackpad is another distinguishing plus extremely functional feature of X series.

Conclusion:

This is a laptop series consisting of compact, light weight, solid, durable and highly functional machines. If you have to get a notebook, make sure it is an environment friendly ThinkPad.

Written By: Seemab

These nice looking laptops features a 1.3mp webcam, gigabit Ethernet, WiFi, integrated multicard reader, a 1366×768 resl panel, and 3 USB 2.0 ports. You will also find them an array of colors to get some elegance according to your style. The TC7306u and TCT307u will house Intel’s Core 2 Duo CPUs, a double layer DVD writer and a Li-ion 6-cell battery.

These machines are, indeed, a great combination of style, mobility and robust media technology. Its cinematic mobile entertainment features are the things that make it quite nice for use. The price tag for a 14” HD display is $649.99.

There is a problem in balancing four important factors as far as notebook designing is concerned. Four factors are- temperature, speed, aesthetics, and battery life. The system integrator usually spent very long hours to get the right balance between those four factors. In reality, if you look in to actual clock speeds of the graphics hardware of your laptop, you will come to know that the maximum of the time it is running slower than what is mentioned in the specifications.

Well, knowing the actual capability of your graphic cards has become lot easier than you really think of. Basically, it denotes the updating of the INF file and few extra cautions before you start the overclocking of the graphic engine. It is pretty much similar of doing the overclocking of the desktop graphics card; however it is more fun because the graphics cooling is shared in the notebook with your processor.

It is really good to categorize the cooling of your laptop to offer a cool cleaning of it. It will surely make a vast difference to your laptop performance as whole.  Using a cooling stand for the laptop is also recommended. Otherwise you can also replace the default cooling fans with the more powerful one. For few individuals who are pretty familiar with the hardwares of the notebook can also drill their laptop chassis to make it friendlier for the airflow to keep the laptop cool.  However, for the starters laptop stand is recommended.

How to improve your laptop’s graphics?

Most of the games do work very well on these stable drivers; however it is difficult to predict the performance of the most recent games those are available in the market now a days.

What you have to do is very simple. At first you need to download the latest drivers for your graphics core. Also download the modified INF file from any relevant site.

When you have them on your hard drive, just extract that driver to a differently titled directory. It should overwrites the original INF file which is enclosed in the reference drivers along with the altered file you have fetched separately before driver setup utility is being run.

So the problem of getting those messages which says that there are no compatible drivers available is gone now. You can do the drivers updates freely without any problem. This way you can get rid of the incompatibility problems.

Overclocking of the laptop graphics can be started right away, however the chances of becoming successful are quite low. Well, there is some good news too. Default drivers installation enables the users to run the temperature-sensing software. For example, HWMonitor is free software which can be downloaded from www.cpuid.com.

Temperature of the graphics chip can be measured and you do this in the background too and could run any game for around 15 minutes. After you have played the game, you can come over to your desktop and see the reading of the maximum value for your graphics card. Regular cleaning of the machine will protect the graphic core from getting too hot.

So it is good to clean it out for which you have to look down to your laptop’s motherboard, cores and its fans. For cleaning you can take help from the online manual of the laptop’s manufacturer.

Unscrewing and screwing should be done with extra caution. At the time of cleaning, you may also have to take off the screen of your laptop, so be prepared.  The cooling fans would be the first you will notice or get access. The number of cooling fans and its arrangement is entirely depending upon the designing of your chassis, but cleaning is most important.

Compressed air is good for cleaning, however many does cleaning with blowing and dusting with a piece of a tissue, that also work well.

Graphics core is the main thing you will be searching for. Well, it is not an easy task to get access of the real silicon in many chassis because the heat sink wrapped with the GPU. You could able to open this up by the help of a star screwdriver and uncovered the embedded graphics processor along with dodgy thermal pad that is interfaced with the cooling unit.

Peel the thermal paste and also remove if there is any residue left on the top of the GPU and also look in to the bottom of the heatsink. You can now add your own thermal pasting and then set up the graphics unit once again and carefully set all the screws in the right place.

Nokia would first introduce these sticks in the market by the year 2009. The Vice President for hardware components at Nokia informed Reuters that the expertise possessed by the company about the 3G components and its functionality would prove to be instrumental for their success. He also added that with these functionality, Nokia is already preparing itself to be one of the leading providers for the high speed modem solutions. The market for the high speed modems is steadily experiencing huge growth in the coming future.

Nokia refused to discuss the cost factor that would be attached to these dongles. But since it would be competing to the already established modem providers, the price is expected to stay close to the current prices being offered in the market. But the cost also depends largely in the deals with the operators and other services bundled together. It still remains to see whether Nokia would be able to make it as big as the cell phones market or not.

So for the extra money, the company has doubled the RAM in the model and is now sitting at 1 GB 667 MHz DDR2 RAM chips inside. And for all those graphic lovers out there, there is an NVIDIA Geforce graphics card with 9400M included with al additional 256 MB of SRAM. The hard drive has gone through an upgrade as well and is now available with the capacity of 320GB that can easily accommodate all your movies, pictures and everything else you’ve always wanted.

So, there is a genuine increase in the specifications, but if we believe the reports from the Boy Genius, customers in the United States do not have to pay for all the extra stuff that comes along but is priced extra in the UK market. This might end up agitating the UK customers when they come to know about the deals in US.