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Eee pad a competent tablet computer for iPad

Many tablet computers are getting released in the market after iPad is released and each country is having their own affordable tablet computers.But all these tablets have similar look and feel of iPad though they have many additional features and sometimes even with less price when compared to iPad.Now its the turn of Asus to release its own tablet computer Eee Pad however it was only competent with e-readers like Nook and the kindle.

Asus is going to give a tough competition to iPad as it has many different features than iPad.Asus is a Windows 7 based device.Asus is also releasing two versions of Eee Pad.One is termed as EP101TC and other as EP121.

Features of ASUS
Screen Width
EP101TC – 10-inch screen
EP121 – 12-inch screen
Processor – Intel CULV Core 2 Duo processor
Battery life – 10 hours

Inspite of all these features Engadget has had some hands on with the device and it has termed as the device is “barely working”.They have seen that EP121 was not all booting.Though the functionality and performance is under question,the UI of the models looks attractive and the touch screen also worked great.But as per their comments Eee pad still need to go long way in terms of functionality

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Laptops for Children education – One laptop per child

Gone are the days when kids used to carry slates(not the HP slate !),slates got replaced with notebooks and pen and now kids may carry a tablet computer with them to their education center.Marvell Technologies is struggling hard to fullfill the vision of Children using laptops and they are even trying to sell therir products at a cheap rate which could be around $75 to $100.Marvell is in partnership with OLPC foundation to create hardwares for the laptop.

Apart from the low cost feature, Marvell and OLPC are aspiring for many great features which will not even be available in the recent laptops.Following are their tentatively proposed features

low power rating of 1 watt per hour
multilingual, multitouch-screen keyboard with haptic feedback
Wi-Fi
high-quality video (1080p full-HD encode and decode)
integrated video and still cameras
high-performance 3D graphics
Flash 10 Internet
two-way teleconferencing
Andriod OS
ARM Processor
Thickness around 10.8 millimeters which is similar to iPad

So now when is this tablet getting released?
Its been scheduled for next year that is during January 2011

But this laptop will be available only in the developed countries and based on the priority company would look on to other decisions.

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Ultra thin low voltage chips from Intel

Intel has launched new ultra thin new notebook processors which would consume very less voltage and this is going to make a new era in the processor family.Intel has variety of Ultra thin low voltage chips for notebooks as well as for Mobiles.Number of new designs available for ultra thin chips is around 40 and there are even chips with less than 1 inch thickness,weight between two and five pounds and hence the notebooks or the laptops is going to be small in size an weight.Laptops are also going to be lightweight with its new chip and hence it is assumed to be energy efficient and in turn there is going to be a good battery life.

Intel’s new ultra-low voltage consumer laptop CPUs include the following

Core i7-660UM (dual-core, 1.33GHz, 18W, 4MB cache) Core i5-540UM (dual-core, 1.20GHz, 18W, 3MB cache)
Core i5-430UM (dual-core, 1.20GHz, 18W, 3MB cache) Core i3-330UM (dual-core, 1.20GHz, 18W, 3MB cache) Pentium U5400 (dual-core, 1.20GHz, 18W, 3MB cache) and Celeron U3400 (dual-core, 1.06GHz, 18W, 2MB cache).

Intel also provides new chips for Mobile 5 series with many supporting features as follows

Expanded support for video and audio
Built-in data protection and anti-theft technology
Full ultra-thin platform