July 8th, 2008
UK workers take their laptops with them while in holiday! At least that is what vnunet.com says. Well, what’s the big news, after all? I plan to go to a holiday in a couple of weeks and I also plan to take my laptop with me, so no news here! The fact is that we can not live without our internet connection and computer, no matter where we are and what we do, right?
What I don’t agree with is that over 65% will contact the office while in holiday, well, not me, from my point of view, I go for good! However, I want to stay in touch with my websites while there and with my personal email. For the rest, nope! If you have some kind of smart device, one of those Nokia E Series phones, use them for something else, not to contact your office while in holiday, OK?
The only thing that we should consider there is that report of the 12.000 laptops being stolen every week, because, I guess nobody wants to missplace the computer somewhere while in holiday. It would ruin your holiday AND your days at the office!
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July 7th, 2008
Seems that the game is on and the race is tough! Period! A few months ago, NEC joined the race and now ASUS comes in too! It must be good!
The laptop I speak about is the new ASUS B51E, which is MIL 810F approved which surely tells a lot about it. let’s see:
- The laptop can drop up to 75cm and still lives on! Good one!
- The drainage holes on the keyboard prevent up to 120cc of liquid from entering the internal components.
- The baby has a Magnesium-alloy chassis with rubber bumpers.Tough guy!
- High-strength protective film protects LCD from scratches so it can be operated outside, in difficult environment without any issue.
- Sponge protection system keeps harddrive from losing data due to vibration and drops. If you also add this one to the first one with dropping it from 75 cmm, we have a good solution here, I would say!
What the laptop has inside? Well, a Core 2 Duo chip, integrated Intel GMA X3100 graphics processor, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth radios as well as an optional integrated Webcam, so kind of a regular laptop, isn’t it?
I don’t know anything about the price at this moment so let’s wait and see!
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July 4th, 2008
I was reading this morning how computer Italian market is driven by laptops, how sales for laptops grow year by year. Actually, if you look to the 35% growth rate for laptops sales in Italy, then you must agree that it is something to consider…The whole computer market in Italy seems to be doing pretty well, but nothing compares to how laptops are sold there!
Then, to my surprise, I’ve seen an other article on an other site about how sales for laptops in Germany boom! Seems these guys give a free laptop for every purchased one, or they sell really cheap laptops or I can not explain it,really!
An improvement in the German economy coupled with the rising strength of the Euro has contributed to a 44 per cent year-on-year increase in sales of mobile computers.
Ooo, this is good! This is even better than in Italy! But wait, how are other European countries doing? Let’s see!
In UK, seems that there is a 40% growth in laptop sales. Over 60% of the 3.1 million units shipped in the UK last quarter were notebooks while France, Spain and Sweden show gains of between 30 and 40%.
I think this is also the situation in Romania, even if I can not give you numbers. As a short conclusion, we purchased 3 new computers for our office, all of them were laptops and not desktops.
Well?
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