Windows 7 to introduce a large number of low-cost notebook PC makers to see the attitude of both Han

CNET News Service October 10 international reports online text of the so-called halo effect: small and cheap, is a contagious. Quick View Hewlett-Packard and Toshiba, scheduled for October 22 launch of new notebook computers, can be clearly found that, even if the technology to improve, mainstream and high-end notebook computers test a low price is still sharp.

Market researcher IDC, said Bob O'Donnell: "notebook computer priced new realities. Ibm Thinkpad t42 Laptop Battery is increasingly difficult to sell something for more than 800 U.S. dollars." He raised an information showing that the retail channels, the average selling price of the notebook computer less than once desktops. He said: "It is perhaps just an anomaly, but the fact is that this data has been hinted at this phenomenon."

We start with Hewlett-Packard started. The quality of the company's excellent business notebook Svelte, have been in the price (more than jump from 1,000 U.S. dollars). Anymore, from October 22 onwards, Hewlett-Packard will introduce a 13-inch, the thickness is only 0.9 inches, weighs less than 4 pounds, and uses aluminum and magnesium alloy display enclosure under the cover ProBook 5310m, at only 699 U.S. dollars.

It listed more than in August last year, HP EliteBook 2530p Business Notebook series (from 1,500 U.S. dollars) of about 800 U.S. dollars cheaper. 699 U.S. dollars of the 5310m is also equipped with Intel Celeron dual-core processor, 899 U.S. dollars while the models with Intel Core 2 Duo. Both are accompanied by the latest operating system Windows 7. That is indeed priced notebook computers can be described as a significant change.

But there is better. 4 lbs weight HP Pavilion dm3 laptop, starts at 549 U.S. dollars (which is not the Internet version), to matching a reasonable memory and hard drive upgrades, the highest possible as long as about 700 U.S. dollars. This is a 13-inch notebook power-saving Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Neo dual-core processors, and the standard 6-cell battery, (Hewlett-Packard announced) continued power of up to 10 hours.

Journalist recently honored in San Francisco tried a AMD-sponsored dm3, my immediate impression that it is lightweight but durable. Apple's 999 U.S. dollars MacBook suddenly seem very noble, but a little too thick. (Although it is said that some may be subject to change.)

Followed by Toshiba. Toshiba (and Sony) has been high quality, but expensive to the other-worldly air of the ultra-portable Hp Pavilion zt3000 Laptop Battery is known. The most striking example is the 12-inch Portege R600, starts at 2,099 U.S. dollars, and casually a plus (for example, solid-state hard drive upgrade), will exceed 3,000 U.S. dollars. The kind of price in today's ridiculous.

Yes, R600 is equipped with an integrated optical drive, high-performance Core 2 Duo processors, and other high-end components, but with Toshiba's new Satellite T100 series launched in the kind of products will be harder to sell. T100 small size, light weight, and the performance is relatively high. The most important thing is the cheapest of the R600 starts at more than 1,500 U.S. dollars less.

11.6-inch Satellite T115 priced at 449 U.S. dollars onwards, with a dual-core Pentium SU4100 processor, known as the battery power added up to 9 hours, and weighs just 3.5 pounds. That will make R600 and other "executives of jewelry" (Intel CEO Paul Otellini call this type of notebook) become history. The T115 Toshiba access to the Internet may even make this slow-moving - as long as the extra 100 U.S. dollars will be able to have a dual-core notebook computers, so why give way single-core access to the Internet this?

The strange thing is Dell's have to take a two-way strategy. Take a look at Dell, we are familiar: a specialized supplier of low-cost notebooks, such as with a 14-inch screen, dual-core Pentium, CD-ROM, 2GB memory, and 16GB hard drive, only 449 U.S. dollars asking price of the Inspiron 14. Dell there are other less expensive models, the trend for laptops even greater pressure to lower prices.

Dell, followed by little-known, such as the stunning level of 2,299 U.S. dollars in charge of laptop Adamo, or the same astonishing 1,800 U.S. dollars Latitude Z. Plus a super-, ultra-thin Adamo concept, this product definitely not be cheap.

Time will prove the possibility of Dell's strategy of this luxury thin, stylish and inexpensive way out of the notebook in the blaze. Course product itself that if there are attractive enough, the top market will never disappear. (To be honest, I would like to know how the new design of a breakthrough Adamo.) At present, the future of notebook computers fell below 800 U.S. dollars price, I totally Dell Inspiron 6000 Laptop Battery.

Is generally believed, Windows 7 loading and off faster than earlier versions of Windows quickly, but a software company that, in fact, in many cases, Windows 7 boot time, even slower than even Windows Vista.

PC utility software vendors Iolo Technlogies, said internal tests found that a new computer to install Windows 7 takes 1 minute 34 seconds to boot, while the Vista computer as long as 1 minute 6 seconds.

Iolo pointed out that the company calculated the time there was not such as the desktop - the fastest this time may only last 40 seconds - but the computer from the boot to make full use of (fully usable), which is significantly higher when the CPU cycles are no longer and achieve a true idle (idle state), the required time.

Iolo intends to announce next week, more detailed information and test methods. Iolo how it can be addressed to the above conclusion remains to be seen, but this report in order to start quickly as a selling point for Windows 7, this is obviously bad news.

For me personally, try Windows 7 months, I rarely use a full boot (full reboot), is usually frequent entry and exit sleep (sleep) state, the speed of this process is particularly fast.

Iolo found that the longer the computer time used, the speed will be slower. I found, a boot time for three months longer than the original one minute, a total of about 2 minutes 34 seconds. On the use of 3 months and 6 months of computer terms, Iolo admit, Windows 7 fast boot faster than Vista, but in general they are still significantly behind the Dell Latitude d800 Laptop Battery (operating system).

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