Laptops Arena

Intel announced its new series of low-power processors for small mobile devices and Mobile Internet Devices, under the name Atom, also known as Diamondville and Silverthorne, based on a new micro architecture and the Intel Core 2 Duo instruction set.

Atom processors come with support for improved performance with increased system response, in a 25 mm2 form factor, integrating tiny slivers of silicon with 47 million transistors each, which means the world’s smallest and lowest power processors.
Based on the hi-k metal gate technology, Atom chips have a Thermal Design Power in the 0.6-2.5 Watt range with 1.8GHz speeds, unlike the existent 45nm processors with a Thermal Design Power of 35 Watt.

"This is our smallest processor built with the world's smallest transistors," declared Intel Executive Vice President and Chief Sales and Marketing Officer Sean Maloney. "This small wonder is a fundamental new shift in design, small yet powerful enough to enable a big Internet experience on these new devices. We believe it will unleash new innovation across the industry."

ASUS M50 and ASUS M70 are the first notebooks to come with one Terrabyte of hard disk storage and AuthenTec, a leader in the fingerprint sensor and security solutions industry announced that the latest ASUS models will come with its technology to add a powerful protection layer to the two entertainment notebooks.

One Terrabyte equals one trillion bytes and it’s a huge capacity in which you could store around 1000 hours of video, or in other words 350 full-length cinema movies, or 150000 standard length songs, and so on.

The exact fingerprint sensor model equipping the ASUS notebooks is AuthenTec AES1610, an advanced security solution which has been chosen by ASUS to protect such a huge amount of stored data, by reading below the skin’s surface to the live layer where the defined fingerprints reside.
This is done via the TruePrint technology.

<-234x60 Half Banner - left->Belkin is a genius in accessory design providing the most ergonomic laptop stands like this Cush Top which is a protective layer between your lap and the hot computer.
It is not only comfortable for use on a couch or bed, but also comes in high-quality furniture-like upholstery with lifetime warranty and has a convenient storage pocket where you can put the mouse and power adapter.



You can flip it over to accommodate any laptop size and is available in Silver, Orange, Green, Dove/Tarragon, Chocolate/Tourmaline and Steel/Burnt Orange colors and color combinations.



Another option from Belkin that would allow you to comfortably keep your notebook on your lap in bed is the Pocket Top with same protective efficiency against your lap getting hot.
It is made of durable, hand-washable material and can keep your power adapter in a pocket when your computer is plugged in having lifetime warranty but it fits 15.4-inch laptops or smaller ones.

The latest processor from Intel, Core 2 Duo Extreme 9000 Penryn for notebooks will be released later this month according to the company.
The notebooks that will run on these new CPUs will be only those selected and some of them are announced to appear in March.

Intel said it will be the fastest mobile chip and will make the notebooks powerful at least same as desktop computers.
The processor clocked at 2.8GHz is using 800MHz front side bus with 6MB of L2 cache and it is supposed to be overclockable.

It will be sold at $851 in 1,000 unit tray quantities and according to the performance tests at Intel, it has 4% and 7% better results in 3DMark06 and Cinebench R10 benchmarks, compared to the 65nm Core 2 Extreme X7900 model with 4MB L2cache and 2.8GHz speed.

Incipio Technologies has launched the new Orion Sleeve for MacBook Air, especially designed for the thinnest notebook on the planet.
The material it is made of is sysnthetic leather mixed with ultra durable high density foam and covered with luxurious soft micro suede.

It weights under 215 grams and is just 6 mm thin but designed to offer maximum protection in an elegant and simple style.
Incipio Orion Sleeve is available on the official website.

“We are excited about this product as it is truly a perfect match for the MacBook Air and our first major notebook accessory,” said Andy Fathollahi, President of Incipio. “We think that our customer’s are going to be extremely pleased with the Orion Sleeve.”