Commodore USA just announced that they will release the Commodore PC64 later this year, an “exact” replica of the good old C64 with beige chassi but this time being an Intel Atom-powered PC sporting 4GB DD3 memory, 1TB SATA hard drive, HDMI, and DVD/CD drive (or optional Blu-ray). Sweet! According to Commodore they expect it to hit the markets before the holidays, no word on pricing yet though.
That old keyboard sure brings back some good memories for me – my first computer was a Commodore VIC-20 before I moved on up to a C64.
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Dell has teamed up with Threadless and will offer 11 of their t-shirt designs as laptop covers through Dell Design Studio. The Threadless picks are available on Dell Studio laptops and Inspiron Mini netbooks and will be changed several times a year to offer fresh, new crowd-sourced designs.
Link: Dell.com: Design Studio
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Sony joins the netbook game with the Vaio W line, which they refer to as “a chic new line of mini notebooks” available in white, brown and pink.
Starting at $499.99 these machines are powered by a 1.66 GHz Intel processor, got a 1366×768 10.1" “XBRITE-ECO” widescreen display, 1GB RAM, 160GB hard drive, bluetooth + 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, available in and weighs a mere 2.6 lbs. Along with that you get two USB ports and a web camera + microphone.
SonyStyle.com: Sony Vaio W series
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This is Marvell Sheevaplug; a Linux-running PC small enough to be plugged into a regular wall socket while offering a 1.2GHz CPU, 512MB RAM, 512MB flash memory for storage and a Gigabit ethernet port + USB 2.0 port for connectivity.
So, just hook it up to the network, connect a hard drive to the USB port and you’ve got a super-silent tiny web or file server you can control over the network, taking up no space at all and consuming less than 5 watts of power (so there’s no need for a clunky power adapter or anything).
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Marvell: Sheevaplug product briefing [PDF]
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Want a custom, covert-operations style MacBook? Try the Stealth MacBook Pro from Colorware; a regular 15" MacBook Pro (3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 8GB RAM, 256GB solid-state drive, 8X superdrive) but with a soft, smooth-textured, zero-gloss black finish protecting your computer from both fingerprints and scratches. The backlit keyboard now glows in blue too, nice touch.
There’s only 10 of these ninja macbooks available though, so hurry up if you want one!
Colorware: Stealth MacBook Pro ($5999)
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The Touch Book by Always Innovating might look like a regular netbook at first glance but with features like a 95%-sized keybard along with a fully detachable 8.9" touch display that can be used as a tablet it might just be a bit more interesting to some people.
It’s powered by an OMAP3530 ARM chip and sports 256MB RAM + 256MB NAND memory along with a 8GB SD card for storage (no hard drive on this one). Besides that you get wi-fi, bluetooth, three USB-ports and a 3D accelerometer.
The Touch Book is said to start shipping next month to a price of $300 for the tablet section, $400 if you want the keyboard too.
Read more @ Laptopmag
Here’s HP Mini 5101, a sturdy, ultralight laptop with a bit more muscle than your average netbook. It’s enclosed in black, brushed aluminum and aluminum alloys and sports a Intel Atom processor, a 10.1" LED display, a spill-resistant keyboard 95% the size of a regular one and it weighs in at just 2.6 pounds.
It’s available with three different screen resolutions (WSVGA and higher) and with either a lighter four-cell battery or a six-cell battery offering up to 8 hours of runtime. When it comes to storage you get a 7,200 RPM hard drive alternatively an optional solid state drive with either 80 or 128 gigs.
The HP Mini 5101 starts at $449 and is expected to be available in late July.
Link: HP.com/personal
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Shuttle launched the “All-in-One Mini-PC” X50 a while ago but will, as of the end of June 2009, be available as a barebone system as well, meaning you get to buy this sleek, 3.6 cm thin and fanless system and then equip it with your operating system, HDD/SSD and RAM of choice.
The X50 is available in both black and white, both sporting Intel Atom 330 dual-core processors (2×1.6 GHz), a 15.6" touchscreen, a 1.3 megapixel webcam, wlan, gigabit-lan, card reader, stereo speakers, microphone and the forementioned fanless power supply (65 Watt).
Read on for more pictures of this sleek machine:
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Here’s the new Voodoo PC Envy 133. These white and black carbon-fiber Intel Centrino beauties are just 0.7" thin, meaning they’re thinner than the MacBook Air (which is 0.76" thick at the middle).
Other than the thin waist the Envy 133 sports a 13.3" LED WXGA (1280×800) screen, weighs 3.4 lbs and packs features like ambient sensors to adjust the screen brightness, a backlit and tactile keyboard, integrated webcam, multiple gesture touchpad and Ethernet connectivity as well as WiFi.
It comes with Voodoo IOS too, meaning you can fire up bootware Linux really fast for Skype, Firefox and similar tasks without booting Windows Vista.
Expect a starting cost of $2,100 when its launched during this summer.
Read more at Gizmodo
Dell has released a couple of pics of their upcoming and tiny laptop. There’s no official specs (or name for that matter) but Dell named the images “Mini Inspiron”. Among the expected features we find a 8.9-inch display, three USB ports, 8-in-1 card reader and an integrated webcam. Dell will probably release more info at Computex next week.
Read on for a picture of the dark red version:
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