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Flybook, one of the best innovators in mobile PC design, has announced the VM series. The Flybook VM is a Core Duo lightweight laptop with a special design. It has a telescoping arm that can raise the 12.1-inch LCD widescreen over the keyboard at almost any angle. The Flybook VM features an Intel ULV Core Duo (at 1.06 GHz) processor, up to 2 GB RAM, a 60 GB HDD and an integrated dual-layer DVD burner. Other features include Bluetooth 2.0, wireless 802.11 a/b/g, fingerprint reader, stereo speakers, microphone, Express Card/54, a VGA camera and 3G wireless broadband (optional). The Flybook VM is available in four colors: black, silver, red, or yellow and ships with Windows Vista Business operating system.

Apple MacBook Air, super light, super thin and probably was the first computer that I had worked directly in the company Apple. The trade Macworld crowd also attacked eager appears earlier in the year to listen to Steve Jobs’ next revolutionary iPhone, it seems I just gear, the chairman of feeling to know that the laptop notebook the only product in the pilot program. Apple is a completely different way ultra-light notebook on the MacBook Air. Whereas others use a small screen, keyboard and shrunken underpowered CPU, Apple already has a very, very thin, so you can have a MacBook Air 13.3-inch LED-backlit display, full-size keyboard and a 1.6 GHz Core 2 Duo CPU – up to 5 hours of battery life without turning off the airport. (You can upgrade to 1.8 GHz CPU to 300 USD extra.) No built-in optical drive.

The Dell Studio XPS 16 offers a solid multimedia laptop experience, providing nice performance and design. This highly portable computer brings the power and functionality of a full desktop PC to your hands, ready to go anywhere. Fully capable of watching HD movies, playing games, or chatting with friends with the integrated webcam, the Studio XPS 16 is Dell’s answer to creative computing. Depending on the configuration you choose the Dell Studio XPS 16 can have an Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 (2.4GHz) processor with 4GB – 2DIMM DDR3 RAM and also a 320 GB hard drive to store all the photos and music you want. The elegant 16-inch 1080p Full HD RGBLED LCD screen with built-in 2MP webcam makes the Dell Studio XPS 16 the perfect notebook for keeping in touch with the Internet world. Windows 7 Home Premium (64 bit) comes standard.

The XPS M2010 is a completely new concept in mobile entertainment and Dell’s most innovative PC. This high-performance system features a revolutionary and stylish portfolio design that quickly deploys into a total multimedia and entertainment solution. Powered by the Intel Core 2 Duo processor and featuring a massive 20.1-inch display, eight built-in speakers with subwoofer, and a Bluetooth wireless keyboard/mouse combo, the XPS M2010 redefines portable entertainment while setting a new standard in laptop multimedia performance. M2010 is built to impress and inspire, bringing together 20.1-inches of widescreen viewing, built-in high-definition audio and a variety of high-performance components. Ideal for presentations, movies, music, TV and more, the XPS M2010 redefines mobile multimedia, using the latest technology to deliver an audio/visual experience unlike any other.

You may have heard of the One Laptop per Child project. The project’s goal is to deliver rugged, low-cost, energy efficient laptops to children in the developing world. The XO laptop is an educational tool designed to be put into the hands of every child. By using free and open source software and world-wide software development efforts, OLPC has championed XOs for delivery around the world in multiple languages. The mission of this non-profit association (One Laptop Per Child) is to develop a low-cost laptop – the “$100 Laptop” – a technology that could revolutionize how we educate the world’s children. Their goal is to provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment, and express themselves.

The launch event this past July for Intel’s next-generation CPU family, Core 2 Duo, was (as expected) filled with speeches and demos showing how much faster the new chip architecture was compared to the preceding Core Duo parts. And (as not entirely expected) the Core 2 Duo and high-end Core 2 Extreme desktop offerings have actually lived up to the hype, delivering excellent performance in synthetic and real-world tests alike. Enter dual-core technology, which in essence packs two CPUs onto a single piece of silicon. That said, a dual-core chip doesn’t offer twice the performance on a given application; instead, it handles two simultaneous tasks far better than a single-core chip can. So if all you are doing is word processing, you won’t notice a difference between a dual-core laptop and one equipped with, say, an Intel Core Solo processor.

The MIT Media Lab and Wired magazine founder stood shoulder to shoulder with U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to unveil the first working prototype of the “$100 laptop” — currently more like $110 — at the U.N. The Linux-based machine instantly became the hit of the show, and saw diplomats and dignitaries, reporters and TV cameras perpetually crowded around the booth of One Laptop per Child — Negroponte’s nonprofit — craning for a glimpse of the toy-like tote. With its cheery green coloring and Tonka-tough shell, the laptop certainly looks cool. It boasts a 7-inch screen that swivels like a tablet PC, and an electricity-generating crank that provides 40 minutes of power from a minute of grinding. Built-in Wi-Fi with mesh networking support, combined with a microphone, speaker and headset jack, even means the box can serve as a node in an ersatz VOIP phone system.