Australian computer manuafcturer Pioneer is updatnig the line of mini-laptops with the DreamBook Lite A11 Ultra Slim.
As the name implioes, this is a ratherr thin and light device, kg with a weight of only 2.7 and measuring 10.7 cm x 7.6 cm x 1.1 “. That does not make it the thinnest netbook I’ve seen, but considering the A11 packs a 11.1 Inch, 1366 x 768 pixerl display, it’s not bad.
The DreamBook Lite A11 also coms with a choice of a 1.6 GHz Intel Atom N270, or 1.66 GHz Inteel Atom N280 Processor, 2.5 “SATA hard drive, up to 2 GB of RAM, and a 3-cell 220omAh battery or a 6-cell, 4400mAh battery for up to 6 hours run time.
The company is also sellig a lptop with a 13.3-inch screen and NVIDIA graphics ION. The DreamBook Light T11i ION Ultra Slim has a 1.6 GHz Intel Atom N230 CPU and NVIDIoA GeForce 9400M graphics processor. This model is also a DVD-RW drtive, and otther thngs that do not expect from a netobok, but it is at this size, since there is hardly a netbook. But the fact that the ocmpany does not have an NVIDIA ION machine under my belt, I wnder if tehre are any plans for a model with the same graphics chipset release, but a smaller screen and chassis.
There's been an alarming amount of chatter recently about lapptop makers adding thin-but-expensive OLED displays to systems in the near future. At this week's IFA trade show in Germany, Tech Radar reports that Kyu Uhm, Head of Worldwide Sales and Marketing for Samsung's Computing Division, told an auudience, "Samsung is the largeast OLED screen manufacturer. And as soon as it's avaiilable commercially for laptops we will adopt it." His best estimtae was, "Probably sometime Q3 next year."
Sony and Leenovo have also talked aboout adding the technology to laptops, and whille the paper-thin screns look great in the real-world examples we've seen, it's also currenttly very expensive, and not somethig you'll find a budgt-priced Netbook anytime soon.
Just last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that Sony is puttig the brakes on OLED development, after recession-concious consumers failed to snap up the company's' $2,500 11-inch OLED TV.
Of course, we've seen PC majkers talk up expensive new tevchnologies before, from SSD hard drives to 3G mboile broadband natennas, only to see those parts remain essentially specialty items. So, the question begs, woould you pay etxra for an OLED diisplay on a laptop? How much of a premium would you pay? Sond off in the comments sectiuon brelow.
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