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<strong>Watt</strong>’s New<br />
Touch-screen technology, new laptops from HP<br />
HP has unveiled its new TouchSmart All-in-One personal<br />
computers, which are priced at just $1 299 and come <strong>with</strong> touchscreen<br />
technology that allows users to works <strong>with</strong> photographs,<br />
music files, videos and browse the Internet by tapping or swiping<br />
the screen.<br />
According to HP’s executive vice president, Todd Bradley the<br />
new computers are available in 17 different countries including<br />
United States, Japan, China, India and Britain. At this stage<br />
there is no indication of when these computers will be available<br />
in South Africa.<br />
The computer range will provide a television service, comes<br />
<strong>with</strong> a DVD writer, has a built in Webcam and high quality stereo<br />
speakers. It has a 22” (diagonal) high-definition widescreen<br />
display and uses Intel’s Core 2 Duo processor. The range has built<br />
in Wi-Fi, comes <strong>with</strong> 4 GB of memory, a media card reader and a<br />
choice of large-capacity high-speed hard drives.<br />
HP has also introduced 16 new laptop computers including its<br />
top of the range EliteBook premium series and Bradley claims<br />
that these new products have a striking design that has been<br />
tailored to the “ever-changing mobile lifestyle that consumers<br />
are now demanding.”<br />
The new computers feature the liquid-metallic HP Imprint 2<br />
surface design. The laptops offer a choice of processors including<br />
the AMD Turion 64X2 Ultra cual-core mobile processors and the<br />
Intel Centrino @ and Centrino 2 <strong>with</strong> vPro. The HP ProtectSmart<br />
hard drive protection technology is standard on the new range of<br />
laptops.<br />
Asus computer for less than $300<br />
Asus has released its Ebox computer that uses a 1,6 GHz Atom<br />
processor, has built-in Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and a I GB ethernet<br />
connect. It has a 160 GB hard disk and 1 GB of RAM and is<br />
expected to sell for less than $300.<br />
The small box computer has connectors for a USB keyboard and<br />
mouse and a conventional VGA monitor. Its video chip is capable<br />
of playing high definition video in DivX formats and is said to be<br />
surprisingly quick. It is about the six of a satellite decoder.<br />
Various test models have been released to computer analysts who<br />
say the machine has a near-instant pre-boot environment and using<br />
the Linux-based ExpressGate it will let users browse photographs<br />
on the web, make Skype calls and handle instant messages through<br />
Pidgin <strong>with</strong>out starting up the full desktop operating system.<br />
July 2008
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