Packard Bell launches new line-up
ACER-OWNED PACKARD BELL has announced what it is punting as its 'broadest and most innovative product range ever' in the shape of two new notebooks and two new netbooks.
PB has followed up on the 8.9-inch 'Dot' netbook with the 10.1-inch Dot S and the 11.6-inch Dot M. Both have multi-gesture touch pads and built-in wifi and webcams. Bluetooth and 3G connectivity can be added as an optional extra.
S&M
The Atom-powered netbook range comes pre-installed with Adobe's Photoshop Elements 6 for footling with your photos, a 5-in-1 card reader and a 160GB hard drive.
The S will sell for €300, the M for €400.
The Easynote Butterfly weighs 500 grams less than a standard notebook (whatever a standard notebook weighs... we must have missed the memo) and is less than an inch thick. It comes with a 13.4-inch backlit LED display and is powered by an as-yet-undisclosed Intel processor.
On a wing and a prayer
An ATI Raedeon HD4330 Mobility chipset pushes the pixels around and you get to choose whether you want a standard hard drive or an SSD.
Available only in European markets, the Butterfly promises an eight hour battery life (geddit... butterfly... lives for a day?) and comes with the same multi-touch trackpad as its diminutive siblings. No pricing had been announced at time of typing.
The Easynote TR series is aimed at laptop-toting media fans (who can't afford a Mac) and PB reckons this one's all about style. Co-designed by Pinininininfarina, the TR85 has a 15.6-inch, 16:9 aspect-ratio, backlit screen for watching videos and comes with built-in Dolby sonic trickery to make it sound much bigger than it is.
TR Heaven
The Dotty duo are out now and the other two should show up some time in June. µ
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Bah!
Riding the Red Arrow Express from Calgary to Edmonton with a Macbook Pro open on my lap, editing C++ code, the bizman beside me says: "Oooohhh a Mac! You must be in the creative field?" "Uuhh, no, software development".
Mac as media machines is just another example of Apple's grasp on the cortex of lesser people. You can do media or development, or even spreadsheets, as well on OS 10, or Linux, or Windows.
How is it possible that the incredible minority of mac users get to be so bloody loud? Can you enjoy your fruit thingy in silence so the rest of us can get on with our lives?
Gee!
Probably editing the code for something that is going to run on windows or linux though. ;)
Interesting that hoohoo doesn't consider software development as creative. Must write rather bland code... 'course, considering that software "development" nowadays is mostly stringing together modules already written by other, more experienced senior engineers (like me)...
Just because I can afford a fruity computer doesn't mean I want one. I can afford a room full of 'em, but have no use for them in my business.
I thought they went out of business YEARS a go. What did Acer just buy them up and never do anything with them until now?
How many macbooks with 3450 or Atom. Case closed. Or should that be lid closed.