Eurocom has introduced the D900C PHANTOM-X Mobile Workstation notebook powered by Intel’s Core 2 Quad Q6600 or Q6700 quad-core processor.
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Dell has announced its new Vostro line of desktop and laptop PCs, based on AMD’s and Intel’s 64-bit solutions. The new systems are more business-oriented than Dells Inspiron consumer PCs, yet more personalized than the enterprise-class Dell Optiplex and Latitude PCs.
Dell has released the new 64-bit desktop and notebook computers. The new PCs are Inspiron 530, 530s and 531, 531s desktops; Inspiron 1720, 1721 (17-inch), Inspiron 1520 and 1521 (15.4-inch), Inspiron 1420 (14.1 inch) notebooks; and XPS M1330 (13.3-inch) notebook.
All of the major PC makers released this week their new notebooks based on Intel Centrino Pro and Centrino Duo “Santa Rosa” platform. Along with new GM965/PM965 chipsets, these laptops feature the new 64-bit Intel Core 2 Duo processors, which now have 800MHz front side bus, compared to the first generation of Core 2 Duos for notebooks with 667MHz FSB. Also, now there is increased number of PC vendors offering their mobile computers with 64-bit Windows Vista OS pre-installed.
Intel today introduced the new Centrino “Santa Rosa” notebook computer technology. The latest “Santa Rosa”-based laptops with “Centrino Duo” and “Centrino Pro” logos feature the new Mobile Intel 965 Express chipsets, 64-bit Core 2 Duo processors with increased front side bus speed to 800MHz from 667MHz, a new integrated graphics, a wireless N connection with greater speed and range, a Turbo Memory for faster boot-up and application loading, and Intel’s Active Management Technology in business-use models.
The major notebook makers have already released the first “Santa Rosa” notebooks. Intel expects the release of more than 230 Centrino Duo and Centrino Pro processor technology-based designs from PC manufacturers, resellers and integrators around the world to be released this year.
Gateway has unveiled this week the E-155C Tablet PC featuring the latest 64-bit Intel Core 2 Duo U7500 Ultra Low Voltage processor at 1.06GHz.
This new convertible notebook with 12-inch (1280 x 800) widescreen display supports both a digital pen and touch screen inputs using Wacom’s technology.
Toshiba announced yesterday 17-inch Satellite P205 and 15.4-inch Satellite A205 notebook PC series. Almost all P205 models and the whole A205 lineup feature 64-bit CPU (Intel Core 2 Duo T5300 or T5500).
These Toshiba’s multimedia notebooks ship only with 32-bit version of Windows Vista Home Premium, Business or Ultimate, depending on model.
AMD plans to release in May the 64-bit dual core Turion 64 X2 TL-66 notebook processor clocked at 2.3GHz and built using 65nm technology, HKEPC reports.
AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-66 has 512KB of L2 cache per core and supports DDR2-800 dual channel memory, while its thermal design power (TDP) remains at 35W.
Intel plans to push its forthcoming Santa Rosa platform, scheduled for launch at the beginning of May, under its notebook PC platform brands Centrino Pro and Centrino Duo, as well as under a Viiv branded desktop platform too, according to Digi Times’ sources.
“PC makers such as AOpen, Sony and Shuttle have used mobile on desktop (MoDT) platforms to create small form factor systems targeted primarily at noise or space sensitive environments, such as SOHO and living room PC markets. However, these systems have found difficulty in expanding sales in to the wider desktop market due to higher costs, lower performance, and lower expansion options compared to traditional desktop systems,” the report says.
Intel has silently launched the Core 2 Duo U7600 and Core 2 Duo U7500, the corporation’s first 64-bit ultra-low voltage (ULV) processors.
The U7600 is clocked at 1.2 GHz, while the U7500 runs at 1.06 GHz. Both have 2MB of L2 cache and a 533 MHz front-side bus, as well as TDP (thermal design power) of 10 watts.
Hewlett-Packard has recently announced the HP Compaq 6515b and HP Compaq 6715b business laptop computers, both configurable with AMD Turion 64 x2 dual core 64-bit processors and built on the latest AMD M690 chipset.
The pre-configured 14.1-inch widescreen 6515b and the 15.4-inch widescreen 6715b models are offered at HP’s web-site with 32-bit Windows Vista Business, while some models come with Vista Home Basic. Although the option is not listed on-line, it is possible to purchase some of these laptops with 64-bit Vista.
Advanced Micro Devices has announced the availability of laptop-use version of its latest 690 chipset. AMD M690 supports AMD Mobile and Desktop Client processors, up to 800MHz HyperTransport interface speeds and has an integrated ATI Radeon X1200 series graphics. There is also a new battery life saving technology called Display Cache.
“To ensure longer battery life, the AMD M690 incorporates innovative memory technology known as Display Cache, designed to allow the CPU to operate in low-power mode without accessing system memory. This platform-level innovation coupled with the energy efficient processor design of AMD Turion 64 X2 dual-core mobile technology extends battery life by up to 30 minutes over previous AMD mobile technologies.
Notebook PC maker Clevo will release at CeBIT Show in Germany this week the new D900C gaming notebook, based on desktop-use Intel 965 Express chipset, which support Core 2 Extreme processors and with Nvidia’s SLI graphics system utilizing two video cards.
Clevo D900C laptop features a 17-inch widescreen display with 1680 x 1050 or 1920 x 1200 resolution and can be configured with one of the desktop Intel Core 2 Duos or with Core 2 Extreme processors. D900C will feature dual Nvidia Geforce Go 7950 GTX or forthcoming Geforce Go 8800 GPUs, according to NotebookReview.
SiS announced today that it will unveil the most advanced chipsets supporting Windows Vista at CeBIT 2007. The SiS672FX series, SiS671FX series, and SiS771 series chipsets are SiS special innovations.
They are designed for optimum compatibility with Windows Vista, and support mobile PCs and desktop PCs platforms. All of these chipsets have received certification from Microsoft. At CeBIT this year, SiS will introduce its full product line of chipsets for powering Windows Vista. For Intel platform, SiS presents SiS672FX, SiS672, SiSM672MX, SiS671FX, SiS671, SiS671DX, and SiSM671MX chipsets; for AMD platform, SiS unveils the SiS771 chipset. With SiS high-end Mirage3+ graphics engine, high quality digital entertainment experiences can be explored thoroughly.
In order to present the high performance systems that adopt the latest SiS Windows Vista ready chipsets, this year, SiS set up a flagship section to live demo its star products. Furthermore, NB live-demo section and static motherboard section will also be highlighted in this exhibition.
In the live-demo section, the SiS672FX/SiS968, SiS672/SiS968, and SiSM672MX/SiS968 chipsets for Intel platforms will be on display; also, the SiS771/SiS968 chipsets for AMD platform will be presented. All of the platforms will be running Windows Vista. With SiS Mirage3+ graphics engine, the SiS672FX, SiS672, SiSM672MX, and SiS771 chipsets support DirectX9. Also, the Mirage3+ graphics engine is integrated with Pixel Shader 2.0, Texture Pipelines, Texture Filtering and Cubic Mapping Technologies to enhance the performance of the 2D and 3D graphics. Combining with the equipped media player and SiS Real Video technology, the video quality can be performed perfectly whenever you are watching TV shows, VCD, DVD, or pictures. In addition, SiS chipsets enhance the security and reliability of the systems when users are surfing the internet, emailing, using instant messenger, and editing documents using Windows Vista.
In the Mobile platform live-demo section, SiS also focuses on customers’ NB PCs which adopt SiS’ latest Vista ready chipsets. The SiS671DX/SiS968 chipsets are adopted by in Asus F5V; the SiSM671MX/SiS968 chipsets are adopted by Clevo M720S.
In static motherboard section, SiS showcased full range of motherboards aiming to fulfill different customers’ requirements. On display are SiS672FX-based motherboards from Asrock, ECS, Foxconn, Gigabyte, MSI, and USI. There is one SiS672-based motherboard from Asus, and the SiS671FX-based motherboards from Asus, ECS, Foxconn, Gigabyte, MSI, PC Partner, PCchips, and USI, will also be displayed. The SiS671-based motherboards from Axper and MSI and the SiS671DX-based motherboard from Gigabyte will be presented in static MB display section. All of the above-mentioned motherboards are compatible with Windows Vista which enable a more efficient search engine for more secure web surfing, better graphics performance, and higher integrated media functions.
Gigabyte will launch the new Intel Santa Rosa based laptop line-up next week at CeBIT show in Hannover, Germany. The new notebook series include the 17-inch gaming laptop with dual graphics card system, the models with NVIDIA’s new graphics chipsets, as same as eight-hour batteries.
Gigabyte W251U notebook is a 12.1-inch, 1.8 kg ultraportable with magnesium alloy chasis, 1.3 megapixel webcam and “long battery life”.
Gigabyte W466U notebook is 14.1-inch Santa Rosa based business notebook with 1.3 MPx Webcam, a new card slot, and a 4-in-1 card reader and also comes equipped with four USB 2.0 ports, one IEEE 1394, TV-out and a D-sub connector for video-out.
Gigabyte W468N with 14.1-inch screen is a multimedia laptop with fingerprint reader and “Robson’ quick access boot-up technology. W468N is also based on Intel Santa Rosa platform and has nVIDIA NB8P 256MB graphics.
Gigabyte W566N is 15.4-inch WXGA multimedia/gaming notebook with nVidia NB8M 256MB graphics.
Gigabyte W756N is a 17-inch multimedia powerhouse with dual graphics card system. It is the first and only 17-inch dual graphics card system, giving you up to a 100% increase in graphics performance over single graphics card systems. The W756N comes with 1GB of graphics memory.
The new Gigabyte laptops come equipped with 10 000 mAH Power Express Li-Polymer cell battery that can keep your notebook running for 8 hours.
The Gigabyte’s Santa Rosa laptops will ship with Windows Vista operating system. It is claimed that Vista on Gigabyte’s new notebooks will provide DirectX 10 feature.
Intel has earlier announced that the Santa Rosa will support 64-bit Intel Core 2 Duo processors and will feature 667MHz up to 800MHz front-side bus, which speed can be dynamically reduced and raised. There are also 802.11n wireless standard and ‘Robson’ flash memory based hard drive cache incorporated.
