The subnotebook trend has everyone looking for smaller and lighter laptops, but some people still want big, heavy, high-performing ones. Those people will be pleased with a new announcement from Lenovo. The notebook giant is taking the desktop replacement a step further with a huge new notebook with a built-in WACOM tablet for graphics input and a number of other interesting features. It is available from Lenovo now.

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Boise (ID) – Micron announced a new generation of its RealSSD flash disk drives for server and notebook applications Capacities are now hitting 256 GB, but the real questions appears to be pricing and not storage space.

Micron’s new drives will come in two flavors, the P200 for servers and the C200 for notebooks. The server models will range from 16 GB to 128 GB in size in a 2.5” form factor. Micron claims that the P200 will be more than 10 times faster at accessing transactional data when compared to a typical enterprise HDD. It is promised to hit a sub-millisecond latency while a typical enterprise HDD has an average latency of approximately 8 milliseconds.

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Intel, the world’s top PC chip maker, on Tuesday launched the next-generation of its Centrino wireless chip that it hopes will provide a new revenue stream amid a broader push into mobile technologies.

The launch of the Centrino 2 chip, previously code named Montevina, came after a delay of several months and was decidedly lower key than the launch of the first Centrino chips in 2003. The next generation chipset combines wi-fi capability, which is only usable within about 100 meters of so-called “hot-spot” transmitters, with a newer wireless technology called WiMax, which allows for high-speed data transmission over much bigger distances and can be used to blanket entire cities.

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The company also introduced dual-core mobile processor, as well as planning to introduce eight new processors within 90 days.

Intel has introduced the Intel Centrino 2 Processor Technology products for laptops, powered by five new Intel Core2 Duo processors. In addition.

The company has also said to introduce the world’s highest performing dual-core mobile processor, the Intel Core2 Extreme processor running at a brisk 3.06 GHz.

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While solid-state storage has its advantages, the components are also considerable more expensive than hard disk drives.

Samsung on Wednesday said it has started mass production of a 128-gigabyte solid-state drive, which is offered as an alternative to more power-hungry hard disk drives.

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Updated: Nvidia said its fiscal second quarter revenue will fall well short of targets because of weak demand, pricing pressure from AMD’s ATI and a faulty graphics processors on older notebook systems. In an SEC filing, the company said it is offering a driver that keeps fans running to relieve stress on the faulty chips in the field.

The company said after the bell Thursday that second quarter revenue is expected to by $875 million to $950 million (statement, Techmeme). The company reported first quarter revenue of $1.15 billion and was projecting the second quarter to be a seasonally average one with a revenue decline of about 5 percent to $1.09 billion. Wall Street was expecting second quarter earnings of 34 cents a share.

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The Idea Centre K210 release follows Lenovo’s launch this year of IdeaPad consumer notebooks outside of China. Lenovo on Monday launched its first consumer desktop outside of China with the release of a low-priced computer in the United States.

The IdeaCentre K210 release followed Lenovo’s launch this year of consumer notebooks outside of China, starting again in the United States with the IdeaPad series of mobile PCs.

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Dell has released a new line of notebooks aimed at multimedia creators and connoisseurs.The Studio laptops will sport a number of features designed for high-end multimedia users, such as an optional blu-ray drive and a high-resolution 17-inch screen.

The new notebooks will also sport Intel Core 2 Duo processors up to 2.5ghz and offer the option of up to 3GB of memory and a 256MB ATI Radeon graphics card. Dell hopes that the Studio line will appeal to users who lead what the company calls “high-def mobile lifestyles.”

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In the span of a few minutes in San Francisco today, Steve Jobs stuck a needle in big balloons hanging over Google and Microsoft. By announcing and taking the wraps off MobileMe, Jobs and Apple did what Google and Microsoft have tried but have failed to do: Define the cloud, and turn it into a broad-based, software-as-a-service offering for anyone. It has potential to integrate work and life, documents and images, PCs and phones.

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Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE:AMD) is showcasing its new notebook platform at the Computex show in Taipei, Taiwan and on Wednesday announced the availability of a new dual-core Turion mobile processor and a new 7-series chipset optimized for mobility as part of the product launch codenamed Puma.The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based chip maker’s next-generation mobile platform launch comes as AMD’s main x86 rival Intel recently announced that its own highly anticipated new notebook platform, codenamed Montevina, has been delayed from a late June launch to mid-summer due to technical issues with the Intel (NSDQ:INTC) 4 Series Express chipset and a separate certification hang-up the basic Wi-Fi chip included in the newly-branded Centrino 2 platform.

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So finally Notebooks with 1 TB of storage have started pouring in. Asus has revealed its M70 notebook which boasts of cool 1 TB of storage space thanks to its integrated twin Hitachi’s Travestar 5K500 hard drives in two-driv e configuration. There’s a lot you can do with 1000GB of storage you can store more than 1000 movies(avi format) or you can store lakhs of audio songs.

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