For those that have already pre-ordered MacBook Air or are planning to buy it, Apple has announced the MacBook Air SuperDrive. The dual-layer burner only weights 1.06 pounds and is powered by USB, looking just as the MacBook Air laptop.
It has a built-in cable and it’s reading / writing at speeds of 24x CD-R, 8x DVD±R and 4x Dual Layer. Until now we don’t know when it will be available, but we assume it will come once with the MacBook Air laptop, as it’s designed especially for it. And when …

Intel’s upcoming Centrino platform, Montevina is coming with 15 new 45nm laptop CPUs, of which eight smaller, perfect for the small form factor devices.The 35mm squared ones are as following: Core 2 Extreme QX9300, 12MB cache, TDP of 45W, X9100, 6MB cache, TDP of 44W, 3.06Ghz, Core 2 Duo T9600, 6MB cache, TDP of 35W, 2.8Ghz, T9400, 6MB cache, TDP of 35W, 2.53Ghz, P9500, 6MB cache, TDP of 25W, 2.53Ghz, P8600, 3MB cache, TDP of 25W, 2.4Ghz and P8400, 3MB cache, TDP of 25W, 2.26Ghz. As expected, all of them …

The 1080p generation seems to come to an end due to the Japanese Government, that announced it’s plans to develop Ultra High Definition ( or Super Hi-Vision ) standards by 2015. What does this mean ? Well, a resolution of 33 megapixels ( 7,680×4,320 ) and a 22.2 channel surround sound.Until now they have problems with building the camera to record videos at this quality and the equipment to transfer it, because it’s a 24Gbps stream. This year they’ve invested about $2.7 million, having a joint project with private companies …

The guys at Engadget have posted a leaked Dell laptop, with an impressive design that should be only 0.78-inch ( 20mm ) thick, with aluminum extrusion and carbon-fiber chassis, that might want to compete with MacBook Air. It will also sport a LED backlit display, but nothing’s sure yet. We are waiting for Dell to announce it.
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Apple’s MacBook Air just got into Apple store and is available for pre-order, so if you can’t wait to get one, now it’s the time to pre-order it and be one of the first to get it. It sports a 13.3-inch LED-backlit display, with a 1,280×800 resolution, with good image quality and also low power consumption, either a 1.6Ghz or a 1.8Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2Gb of RAM, 802.11n WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1 +EDR. Depending on the configuration you choose, it features a 80Gb 4,200RPM PATA HDD or a 64Gb …

Lenovo has stated that Intel is facing a delay in sending the new Penryn chips so it’s causing an issue with the laptop industry. Unfortunately we don’t know what happens and Intel hasn’t yet got officially with this to talk about the problem.Actually it seems that they have an issue with the thermal sensor and they might start shipping the chips at full capacity starting February, but as we’ve said nothing it’s official. The chips affected seem to be the T8100, T8300, T9300 and T9500. We hope to see them …

Maxdata, the German hardware manufacturer, transformed the NanoBook prototype into Belinea s.book 1 Mini-Note. The laptop is based on a Via 1.2 GHz C7-M processor. Some other features are: 840×840 LCD display, 802.11 WiFi, Bluetooth and DVI port. In total it weights 2.2-lb and you can have it for only $924, but another advantage is the Skype 1995 handset which can be attached to the laptop.

It seems like laser TV will be the next generation of, you guessed, TVs. Frank DeMartin, GM of Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America, said that laser TV provides the best quality because “laser has the ability to hit color points that no other technology can.” We suppose that he is referring to HD technology, the main rival of laser TV. He also said the price will be competitive with those of flat panels. Frank is confident that laser TV will hit he market immediately. We are not sure what to say …

Just like Alienware, NEC has launched its own curved display. Although everybody is impressed by DLP display, they shouldn’t ignore the CRVD-42DWX+ display that NEC brought at CES. Theoretical they are very similar, the curved display is a 2880×900, double WXGA+ (if anybody is interested), with a contrast ratio of 10000:1. We suppose that NEC’s display is built by the same manufacturer that built Alienware’s product , Ostendotech. Also we suppose that they will start shipping in the second semester of this year, but they didn’t announce the price so …

LG.Philips has presented a great multitouch display at the 2008 CES. The 52 incher has a resolution of 1,920×1,080 pixels and is using an infrared sensor for it’s touch capabilities, being able to recognize the touch in two different points.
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Forget the solar bags that only charge your phone, handheld or laptop a bit, because Voltaic launches a bag that can charge your laptop in just one day, if the bag is kept in sunlight. Unfortunately, it still isn’t really useful, because one day it’s quite long to charge your laptop and this if you can keep it into sunlight.
The solar bag can produce 14.7 watts from one solar panel in one sunny day and it also comes with adapters, so you can charge your USB devices, phones and also …

We found out more informations about Alienware’s curved DLP display. It will be launched in the second semester of this year. In the image above it’s shown a prototype model and probably they will change its appearence and its inner circuits. Inside lies four DLP projectors LED backlit and which their “after-effects” can be seen on the display, but they will appear only when you take a photo of the display. Altough it was developed by an ODM named Ostendotech it will be a product of Alienware. It’s expected to process …

Samsung presented at CES the i8 camera. With a thin silhouette, it draws everybody’s attention. The 8 megapixel camera supports 3x optical zoom and it features a 2.7 inch LCD. The monitor brightens automatically in accordance with the light. Also, when you slide show your pictures you can listen to MP3 music. As well, the camera supports files as AVI, MOV, WMV, MPEG and ASF. As a bonus you can film MPEG video with a resolution of 800×592. The price for this product is $299. You have a month to …

Apple has just updated the Mac Pro, being the fastest Mac ever produced, with Intel’s new Penryn Xeon. The new Mac Pro, as we’ve said, sports Intel’s 45nm quad core Penryn Xeon 5400 ( Stoakley ) processor, at up to 3.2Ghz and uses two of those, being an 8-core.
It also features a 256MB Ati Radeon HD 2600 XT, 2GB of 800Mhz DDR2 RAM, 320Gb HDD, 16x DVDRW, two PCI Express 2.0, two PCI Express, Bluetooth 2.0+ EDR and the recently released Apple keyboard.It’s prices start at $2,800 and can be …