AppleApple MacBook Air, the world's thinnest laptop

Apple has unveiled the MacBook Air ultraportable, the world’s thinnest notebook, at the MacWorld Expo in San Francisco.

“The MacBook Air measures an unprecedented 0.16-inches at its thinnest point, while its maximum height of 0.76-inches is less than the thinnest point on competing notebooks,” the company’s press release says.

Along with a “spacious trackpad with multi-touch gesture support so users can pinch, rotate and swipe”, the Apple’s ultraportable has a 13.3-inch (1280×800) LED-backlit widescreen glossy display, a full-size backlit keyboard, an aluminum enclosure, and a built-in iSight video camera for video conferencing. The MacBook Air is powered by a 1.6 GHz or 1.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 4MB L2 cache, and includes as standard features 2GB of memory, an 80GB 1.8-inch hard drive or an optional 64GB solid state drive, 802.11n wireless network support, Bluetooth 2.1 technology, the Intel GMA X3100 integrated graphics, a micro-DVI port, and a single USB port. Ethernet LAN port and modem connection are provided via external USB adapters.

The MacBook Air, which weighs 3 pounds, has no built-in optical drive. Instead, users can buy an external DVD burner, called the MacBook Air SuperDrive, for $99. The SuperDrive is powered by MacBook Air’s USB port, eliminating the need to carry a separate power adapter.

According to product specifications, the notebook’s battery provides up to 5 hours of run time.

The new MacBook comes with Mac OS X Leopard operating system and will be shipping in two weeks through the Apple Store, Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers for a suggested retail price of $1,799.

The MacBook Air $1,799 configuration includes:

- 13.3-inch LED-backlit glossy widescreen display with 1280×800 resolution;
- 1.6 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 4MB L2 cache;
- 800 MHz front-side bus;
- 2GB of 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM;
- 80GB hard disk drive with Sudden Motion Sensor;
- Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100;
- Micro-DVI port (includes Micro-DVI to VGA and Micro-DVI to DVI Adapters);
- built-in iSight video camera;
- built-in AirPort Extreme 802.11n wireless networking and Bluetooth 2.1+EDR;
- one USB 2.0 port;
- one headphone port;
- multi-touch TrackPad with support for advanced multi-touch gestures including tap, scroll, pinch, rotate and swipe; and
- 45 Watt MagSafe Power Adapter.

Build-to-order options and accessories include the ability to upgrade to a 1.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor; 64GB solid state drive, MacBook Air SuperDrive, Apple USB Ethernet Adapter, Apple USB Modem, Apple MagSafe Airline Adapter, Apple Remote and the AppleCare Protection Plan. Additional build-to-order options also include pre-installed copies of iWork ‘08, Logic Express 8, Final Cut Express 4 and Aperture 1.5.
 

Dell XPS M1530 Notebook

Dell completed the overhaul of its XPS notebook line by introducing the XPS M1530. The system is one of Dell's few high-end 15-inch notebooks and is aimed at the same audience that would otherwise seek slim, stylized portables such as Apple's MacBook Pro: the minimalist system is 0.9 inches deep at its thinnest point and uses a slot-load optical drive (like the M1330) in place of the usual tray-loading option. A minimum 128MB GeForce 8400M GS graphics chip provides dedicated 3D acceleration even on the least expensive model, which also includes a 2-megapixel webcam and a fingerprint reader.

A base system starts at as little as $999 by using a 1.5GHz Core 2 Duo, 1GB of memory, and a 120GB hard disk backed by a DVD burner. Buyers can custom-order the notebook, however, to use as much as a 2.6GHz Core 2 Duo as well as 4GB of memory, 250GB of storage, a Blu-ray burner, and faster 256MB GeForce 8600M GT graphics. The M1530 can be colored with a black, red, or white outer shell and is available to order now, but should ship by mid-December. The price tag starts from $999 depending on the kit.

The specs of the XPS M1530:
* Display – 15.4” 1280x800 pixels
* CPU - Intel Core 2 Duo T5250/T5450 (1.5 GHz/1.66 GHz)
* DDR2 SDRAM 1 or 2 GB
* HDD - SATA 120/160/250 GB (5400 rpm)
* DVD+/-RW (DVD/CD read/write) with slot start up
* Video card - 128 MB NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS/256 MB NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT
* Wi-Fi Dell Wireless 1490 802.11a/g or Intel Next-Gen Wireless-N
* Bluetooth 2.0
* 2-megapixel web-camera
* Dimensions – 357x263x23.7-35.1 mm
* Weight – 2.62 kg
* OS - Windows Vista Home Premium

MSI GX-620 and the GX-720 Concept notebook

MSI will show its Green Concept notebook product design with Anion technology! Anion technology is a technology to purify the air and remove toxic substances. MSI is the first to combine anion technology with the advance computer technology to create World’s First Anion Notebook. Notebooks are often used in indoor spaces with insufficient ventilation; the MSI Anion notebook can provide users the benefits of clean air anywhere.

MSI developed the MSI PR620 Anion Notebook, which makes it world’s very first notebook that is capable to release anion to better your health. Using the latest in technology, the MSI PR620 Anion Notebook can release up to five hundred and fifty thousand ions/cc (50 cm from the air vent)*. This is more than if you were right next to mountains or the beach. The Anion module can also contain concentrated ozone lower than 0.02ppm. (UL & TUL regulations must be lower than 0.05ppm; high ozone concentration can be harmful to human bodies).
 

Play Multiplayer Pong with your iPhones

Who said that the iPhone or iPod Touch can’t be great games consoles? As you can see from the picture above, you can play Pong with your friends from your iPhones. Just install the software and go head to head. It’s like playing Air Hockey only cooler as Apple is involved.

I always like to see what people can come up with. Especially when they go and use their smartphones for anything different than what it can already do. Remember the iPhone watering plant device? What about the surveillance iPhone system? Congrats to all those people inventing these “gadgets”.

As for the Pong software we still don’t know when and where it will be available and for what price. But I’d sure like go 2 out of 3 with some of my friends.

Motorola Phone Pictures Leaked

At first I thought this is the ZN5 Motorola handset which is rumored to have a 5 megapixel camera from Kodak. But this is a slide phone so could it be a different model?

Anyway, here’s what this “ZN5″ is supposed to feature:

• MOTOMAGX Linux platform,
• 5 megapixel camera without autofocus
• quad-band EDGE
• Bluetooth,
• Wi-Fi,
• 100MB of internal memory,
• microSD slot,
• “ROKR” type touch wheel which also serves as the 5-way navigational pad.

Ok, wait a minute, no 3G? No autofocus? What is all of this Motorola?

A Decoy Phone from LG

I love some of the new names phones have this day. Touch a Diamond? A BlackBerry that is Curve but might be Bold, depending on your needs. And a Decoy slide phone from LG. That’s its name, Decoy. But what’s in a name anyway…

And most importantly I am interested on what’s inside a Decoy from LG as this phone is rolling out on June 16th from Verizon Wireless. And let’s check out some of its specs for you:

• CDMA dual band,
• QVGA 240 x 320 pixel display,
• 2.0 megapixel camera,
• video and mp3 playback,
• expandable microSD slot,
• built-in removable Bluetooth earpiece.

Nothing really special but just the right phone for some budgets. The full price is $349 while if you get a 1 year plan from Verizon you’ll have the Decoy for $249. Add one more year and buy the phone for just $179

To Buy or Not to Buy the Eee for $650

To Beers or Three Beers, this is the question! No, wait, I got it wrong, it must be the weekend.

To Buy or Not to Buy the Eee? This is the question of the week, day, minute. And I am not talking about the Eee in general as a concept but by the upcoming, Atom processor powered Eee PC. It’s rumored that anytime next week Asus will release the Eee PC containing an Atom processor. But the price rizes up to $650.
Here’s an idea, let’s throw in a DVD combo, let’s widen the screen to 13-15 inch and let’s give it an Atom processor and a 80GB HDD. We’ll conveniently call it Eee PC 1301-1501 and sell it for a little over $700. What do you guys think?

I guess we will know more about the Atom Eee next week.