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Logitech expands range
to include notebook bags
New products include notebook cases, webcams and a wireless 'Wii style' mouse
LOGITECH has entered the
notebook bag market with the
launch of two new products
aimed at stealing a piece of the
highly lucrative notebook
essentials market.
As notebook PC sales
outpace desktop PC sales, a
more diverse set of consumers
are enjoying the benefits of the
compact notebook. A recent
Logitech-sponsored study of
more than 1,000 notebook
users highlighted four types of
notebook users: home users;
younger users; technology
enthusiasts; and mobile
professionals.
Logitech’s two new
advanced notebook cases, the
Logitech Kinetik 15.4 Backpack
and the Logitech Kinetik 15.4
Briefcase, offer a flexible take
on the traditional notebook
case. Both feature an exo-shell
casing, which helps protect the
laptop from damage, and a
contoured back panel, which
conforms to the back.
A unique compartmental
design provides organised bays
for devices and access to the
laptop and other equipment.
Both cases are made from
lightweight, durable materials
and are easy to carry and built
to last.
In addition to the bags,
Logitech announced that
following the sale of its 50
millionth webcam, it has
entered into a collaboration
with lens maker Carl Zeiss to
fit co-designed lenses into its
new webcams. The Logitech
QuickCam Pro 9000 and the
QuickCam Pro for Notebooks
are the first webcams to meet
Zeiss’s world-renowned
standards for lens design and
manufacturing
The company also revealed a
new mouse, which works in a
similar way to the hugely
popular Nintendo console, Wii.
The MX Air Rechargeable
Cordless mouse works by using
gesture commands to control
certain aspects of the PC such
as volume.
AMD to offer regular processors
and low-power alternatives
CHIP giant AMD has
announced that it will, for the
first time ever, be launching
both regular and low-power
versions of its new Barcelona
Quad-Core Opteron processors.
It is also the first x86 CPU
range to incorporate four
processing cores onto a single
die of silicon.
It is designed to work in
the same thermal envelopes as
current generation Opteron
processors while offering a
performance increase of up to
70 per cent.
The processor range is due
for shipment to platform
partners this month with the
first hardware complete with
the new processors arriving
on the shelves and catalogues
of retailers and resellers next
month.
“More than ever before,
customers are expecting
energy-efficiency and
performance-per-watt
leadership as much as
absolute performance.
“With this new reality of
computing, greater
performance at the expense of
greater power consumption is
no longer an option," said
corporate vice president,
Server and Workstation
Division at AMD, Randy
Allen.
“AMD has prioritised
production of our low power
and standard power products
Logitech’s new
Kinetik 15.4
backpack
AMD the first chipmaker to do so with its Quad-Core Opteron processors
because our customers and
ecosystem demand it,” he
went on to say.
“And we firmly believe that
the introduction of our native
Quad-Core AMD Opteron
processor will deliver on the
promise of the highest levels
of performance-per-watt the
industry has ever seen.”
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