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AMD takes Live platform to notebooks

Darius Chang | Jan 09, 2007

With greater pressure put on mobiles to perform as entertainment machines, multimedia-focused AMD Live platform will be moving into your notebooks soon.

Competing directly with Intel's Viiv branding, AMD Live Notebook PC is geared toward making your system perform up to party standards with a host of proprietary video- and audio-streaming software, collectively known as the AMD Entertainment Suite. Unlike Viiv, which requires three system components to conform to Intel's standards, the AMD Live platform needs just an AMD Turion 64 X2 processor, 1GB memory and Windows Vista OS with the aforementioned AMD Entertainment Suite. Vendors such as Fujitsu and MSI should be churning out AMD Live Notebook PCs later this month.

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Toshiba's high-end Vista tablet

Darius Chang | Jan 08, 2007

Hot on the heels of HP's tx1000us Vista-powered tablet PC comes Toshiba's Portege R400 tablet PC with a stylish white body.

The Portege R400 is a 12.1-inch convertible laptop with ultra-low voltage Core Duo processors. Unique to the system is a small LED display on the front edge that shows the time, battery level, wireless signal strength and email message status. Admittedly, it is not as exciting as the slideshow screen in the ASUS W5Fe.

The Portege R400 should be launched on January 30 in the US with a starting price of US$2,500.

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HP's Vista-powered entertainment tablet

Darius Chang | Jan 08, 2007

Taking advantage of new tablet-focused features in the upcoming Windows Vista OS, HP makes it easy to work and play on its latest tx1000us tablet PC.

Being one of the first Vista-powered tablet PCs to be announced, the tx1000us is a convertible laptop with an AMD Turion 64 X2 processor, 2GB of RAM, Nvidia GeForce Go 6150 graphics card and a 120GB hard drive. The new OS also gives the tablet PC additional functionality like Pen Flicks (quick shortcuts you activate with a swipe of the stylus) and enhanced support for touch-sensitive screens which do not require a dedicated stylus for input.

However, the tx1000us is not all work and no play. Included in the package are media control buttons, dual headphone jacks and a tiny credit card-size remote control which hides in the PC card slot when not in use. With a starting price of US$1,299 (S$1,999.55), it will launch in the US on February 28. The availability and prices for the Asia-Pacific market, however, have yet to be announced.

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Fujitsu prepares 300GB notebook drive

Darius Chang | Jan 04, 2007

Editors' note :

The 300GB MHX2300BT Fujitsu harddisk will be available in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam from February 2007. Pricing information has yet to be released.

Like money, there is no such thing as too much storage space. For the mobile warrior, the latest 300GB notebook harddisk from Fujitsu should whet some appetites.

Based on perpendicular recording technology, the 2.5-inch drive, christened MHX2300BT, uses the Serial ATA (SATA) interface for faster transfer speeds. This harddisk is a cool 100GB bigger than the Toshiba 200GB drive. The new storage device should hit the shelves sometime in February 2007.

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ASUS gets tough on gaming

Darius Chang | Jan 04, 2007

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Both the ASUS G1 and G2 will be available in Singapore from January 2007, with a cost of S$3,588 (US$2,598.31) and S$3,988 (US$2,887.97), respectively.

Looking to give Dell's XPS a run for its money, ASUS is hoping to hit the sweet spot with its latest mobile gaming portables.

The ASUS G1 and G2 belong to the same lineage and have similar specifications. Only the 15.4-inch display on the G1 and 17-inch LCD of the G2 physically separate them. Besides running with the latest Core 2 Duo processor, the G1 races ahead with the high-end 512MB Nvidia GeForce Go 7700 graphics card, while the G2 opts for the equally speedy 512MB ATI Mobility Radeon X1700. We expect to see some blazing 3DMark06 scores when our review units come in.

Unfortunately, we may not get to see the ASUS G1 outside of Taiwan. The G2, on the other hand, will be making an appearance in the near future wearing a tag of S$3,988 (US$2,887.97). A reasonable price to pay for a speed demon.