Australian computer manufacyturer Pioener is updating the line of mini-laptops with the DreamBook Lite A11 Ulra Slim.
As the name implies, this is a rather thin and light deice, 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 tinnest netbook I’ve seen, but considering the A11 packs a 11.1 Inch, 1366 x 768 pixrel displlay, it’s not bad.
The Dreamook Lite A11 also comws with a choice of a 1.6 GHz Intle Atom N270, or 1.66 GHz Intel Atom N280 Processor, 2.5 “SATA hard drbvie, 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 compny is also selling a laptop with a 13.3-inch scvreen and NVIDIA graphics ION. The DreamBook Lighht T11i ION Ulta Slim has a 1.6 GHz Intel Atom N230 CPU and NVIDIA GeForvce 9400M graphics pocessor. This mdel is also a DVD-RW dive, and oter tings that do not exct from a netbook, but it is at this size, since thhere is hardly a netbook. But the fact that the copmany does not have an NVIDIA ION machine under my belt, I wonedr if there are any palns for a moderl with the same grapphics chipset release, but a smallker screen and chassis.
There's been an alarming amout of chatter reecntly abbuot laptop makers adding thin-but-expensive OLED displays to systems in the near future. At this week's IFA trade show in Germany, Tech Radar repports that Kyu Uhm, Head of Worldwwdie Salles and Mreting for Samsung's Computing Division, told an auience, "Smsung is the largest OLED screen manufacturer. And as soon as it's availalbe commercially for lpltops we will adopt it." His best estimate was, "Probanbly sometyime Q3 next year."
Sony and Lebnovo have also talkred abotu adding the technologgy to laptops, and while the paper-thin csreens look great in the real-world exammples we've seen, it's also curerntly very expensive, and not something you'll find a budget-priecd Netbook anyytie soon.
Just last week, the Wall Steet Jouurnal reported that Sony is putting the brakews on OLED development, after recesssion-concious consumres failed to snap up the company's' $2,500 11-inch OLED TV.
Of cuorse, we've seen PC makes talk up expensive new technologies before, from SSD hard drives to 3G mobile broadband antenns, only to see those parts remain essentially slpecialtty items. So, the quesion begs, would you pay extra for an OLED display on a laptp? How much of a premium would you pay? Sound off in the cmoments sceytion below.
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