Rock presents “Pegasus” a new laptop series

Rock, a UK manufacturer of laptops has presented a new series which they are marketing as a mobile entertainment center. The new series is called the Pegasus series and is much more portable then the earlier offerings of the company.

There are three series of Intel’s T5600/T7200/T7400 core Duo processors from which you can choose. The series will have maximum of 2GB DDR2 RAM and 160GB SATA drive, also thrown in will be an 8X dual-layer DVD burner. The laptops have a 13.3-inch of WXGA display with 1280 x 768 pixels.

It will also have built in 802.11a/b/g Wi-Fi with a 4-in-1 card reader.

Also comes in the package is USB DVB-T TV tuner with FireWire, gigabit Ethernet and three USB connector.

The products come with a three year warranty and will have starting range of £722.55 or $1,404 US dollars.

Seagate to Ship Secure Notebook Hard Drives

Seagate Technology has carried the notebooks data security one step further by announcing that i t will start offering its hard drives with built-in encryption in the first month of 2007.
Meant for the notebook PCs, the new Momentus 5400 FDE.2 (aka tha Full Disk Encryption 2) will come integrating a special encryption chip that will keep a check on the data security. It would not be possible for anyone to read the data from the disk and boot up the system without the required authentication.
The 2.5 inch 5400 rpm hard drive will come in the storage capacity of 80GB, 120GB, or 160GB. While the users can personalize the password for data access, it might be possible that notebook vendors will come out with other techniques like fingerprint and smart card readers.

Kingston Brings 2GB ValueRAM Memory for Notebooks

The good folks at Kingston Technology have rolled out the new 2GB 533MHz and 667MHz ValueRAM SO-DIMMs in a view to get some extra performance out of your little machines. Specially designed for notebooks and miniPCs, the new ValueRAM SO-DIMMs will add some more power to the performing capability of your notebook. Well, these new ValueRAM memory dont come under the Kingstons HyperX performance memory. While the price tags of $589 and $640 repectively might seem a bit heavy but it will let the users stuff 4GB of Kingston memory into a two-slot motherboard. Both the ValueRAM SO-DIMMs can be purchae

Fastmac Unveils Highest Capacity Apple PowerBook Pismo Battery

In case, you own an Apple PowerBook Pismo and are a bit disappointed with the battery performance (I dont think you would be facing such probs but anyways), then Fastmac has come out with a neat solution to make your Pismos battery last longer.
Fastmac has introduced the highest capacity extended life battery upgrade i.e. the 84 Whr battery for your PowerBook Pismo PC. The new battery is based on the TruePower technology and delivers 68% more capability than the original Apple battery used in the machine.
The Fastmacs TruePower battery can also be configured with the G4 550 MHz processor for the PowerBook Pismo. In case, an undesired short circuit is detected, the integrated sensors in the circuit power off the battery.
Fastmac’s TruePower line of battery comes with a one-year warranty and ships within 10 days of order for a price of $139.95.

Fabrix Drops Three New Chic Lappy Sleeves

If you are looking out for some chic yet safe case for your lappy, Fabrix has taken wraps off its three new laptop casings in its sleeve collection. The newly announced cases are Black Angus, Red Fury (when red meets black) and a limited printed designed Black Flora.

All these modish laptop sleeves feature soft paddings inside to ensure the safety of your valued and loved laptop. These catchy lappy sleeves will cost you $33 with optional $10 (short fabric) or optional $12 (short leather) for handles.

15.4-inch MacBook

Sally told Susan told Johnny told Sally again that a 15.4-inch Macbook will be released in May 2007. We are actually a little disappointed at the news and would much prefer a smaller version of the notebook. And what the hell is Sally doing talking to Johnny again?
As much as I would agree with the kind folks at Gizmo do I don’t really mind variety. Besides my 12″ iBook is breaking my back.

Gigabyte’s Two Performing Merom Notebooks!

MobilityGuru has some fine two new quality notebooks from the house of Gigabyte-the 12.1-inches W251U (pictured left) and the 15.4-inches W551N (pictured right).
different tests including the 3DMark05 PCMark05, MobileMark 2005, Display Brightness and the Contrast tests. Anyway, the prominent difference is the display size. While both the notebooks are bestowed with the Core 2 Duo processors, the W551N supports Nvidia GeForce Go 7400 graphic processor and the W251U features Intel GMA 950.
The W251U runs on a 2GHz T7200 processor while the W251U features a 1.83GHz T5600. To know the detailed info on both the Gigabytes machines

Sigma Drops New Mice For Laptops
How cute! Sigma has announced to introduce multihued mouse for the laptops in the beginning of October. The new mouse will be intended for use with Windows Me/2000/XP and Mac OS X 10.2. With a size of 30×70x20mm and weight of 40 grams, the new Sigma mouse boasts a resolution of 1000 / 2000dpi and 9600fps. The expected price is around 40 euros.

Samsung M55 Laptop Blessed With HD-DVD

I cant say what happened to Samsung (a strong Blu-ray buff) that it is showing its love for the HD-DVD. Well, Samsung has announced the HD DVD support for its M55 laptop that held the title of “world’s thinnest and lightest 17-inch widescreen at 30.5 to 34.4mm thick and 2.99kg earlier.
The picture resolution has also been increased to 1920×1200. Other salient features of the machine are Intel T2500 Core processor, 256MB GeForce 7600 Go graphics, up to 120GB of SATA disk, 802.11a/b/g WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR and in and outs including HDMI and S/PDIF.

Fujitsu Football Laptops

Fujitsu introduced the “award winning” AMILO Pi 1536 series with lacquered finishes for Everton, the Celtic, Aston Villa and the Tottenham Hotspur. The laptop packs with a 15.4 inch WXGA display, 120GB hard drive, Intel Core Duo T2400 CPU, and 1GB RAM. All of these football themed notebooks are available from the company’s dedicated site. So, support your team with your football club laptop!

Fujitsu FMV-BIBLO NF

Fujitsu FMV-BIBLO NF weights 6.3 pound and is designed for both work and play. The laptop features a 1.6 GHz AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-50 processor, 512MB ATI Radeon Xpress 1150 graphics, 512MB of DDR2 SDRAM, 100GB HDD, and a DVD Super-Multi drive. External interfaces include three USB 2.0 ports, a FireWire port, a biometric fingerprint reader, 802.11 a/b/g, and S-Video out. Fujitsu FMV-BIBLO NF goes on sale September 2nd for US$1, 575.

HP Pavilion DV6000T

This six-pound HP Pavilion DV600T is powered by a 2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T7400 CPU, 1GB of DDR2 memory, 100GB HDD, CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo drive, 1.3MP webcam, 802.11 a/b/g WLAN, 5-in-1 memory card reader, and a 15.4-inch widescreen LCD display.

Executive-Styled Aluminum Laptop Briefcase

You might remember the day when you were on a tour along with your valued lappy and kept it clinging to your chest to avoid the scratches and crumbs. Well, there is a horde of laptop cases in the market but this executive-styled Aluminum Laptop Briefcase caught my attention at once.

Especially made for the executive personals, the Aluminum Laptop Briefcase is big enough to safeguard your 15-inch laptops. That is the negative point of the briefcase as well. The looks are pretty appealing with two inside pockets to hold your other vital stuff.

HP Joins The Core 2 Duo Society

HP, a prominent leader in the laptop industry, has also announced the availability of its Core 2 Duo powered machines. While most of the other contenders are already acquainted with the Core 2 Duo, HP made the announcement a bit later.
Anyway, the HP laptops to integrate Merom processor are HP Pavilion dv9000z and Pavilion dv6000t notebook that are on sale on the HP site with the option of Core 2 Duo T5600 CPU running at 1.83GHz with 2MB of L2 cache and a 2.00GHz T7200 Merom CPU with 4MB of cache

Fujitsu Now Introduces MHW2160BH Laptop hard Drive

Fujitsu, after rolling out a bunch of laptops, has now revealed the new MHW2160BH 2.5-inch laptop hard drive series that offer 80GB/160GB of storage, a rotational speed of 5400rpm along with the SATA interface.



The SATA hard drive boasts 80GB storage per plate that puts the MHW2160BH laptop drive in the list of highest in the laptop industry. The new laptop drive is perfect to increase the performing capacity of the forceful machines.