Asus Eee 901 PC Laptop and Apple Macbook Air Laptop Compared
August 29, 2008
In this Cyber-age, competition among the computer manufacturers has grown to such an extent that new models that are built, give more accurate results at the simple touch of a button. But at the same time, there is also a question of continued existence of a new product in the global market. A product becomes famous and widely used only if it has features that are above par with that of its rivals. A product must also be manufactured with some of the latest technologies to beat the other models those have already proved in the market, their mettle. At the same time, this product must also be able to compete with the new products that would be launched in to the market. This can be achieved with its scope for regular software or hardware updates as well as its advanced technologies-backbone. To become more savvy about any such new products, a comparative study will help any one who is trying to hunt for more information about them.
Comparison of any two products ultimately gives a clear idea about them, thereby reducing confusion at the time of purchase. With a lot of new laptops introduced in to the market, we have taken steps to make a comparative study between different prominent models that are already dominating the market. The products compared here, are Asus Eee PC 901 Laptop and Apple Macbook Air Laptop. Though, these products are dominant in their own way, they are a bit different in other angles.
The screen size of Apple MacBook Air Laptop is 12.1 inches, which gives its user a better viewing experience, while the screen size of Asus Eee ultraportable Notebook PC 901 is 8.9 inch. Though, the thinness of Apple MacBook Air Laptop is just 19mm, its Intel Core 2 Duo processor runs at a speed of 1.6GHz or 1.8GHz. The weight of both the PCs are almost the same with Apple MacBook Air Laptop trailing a bit here, weighing 1.4Kg as against Asus Eee PC 901 Windows XP laptop’s 1.1Kg. Apple MacBook Air Laptop is designed to have a battery life of 5 hours while the battery life of Asus Eee PC 901 Windows XP laptop is 7.8 hours. The hard disk capacity of Apple MacBook Air Laptop is 80GB and it supports Apple MacOS X 10.5 operating system while Asus Eee PC 901 Windows XP laptop is compatible to Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition operating system. Apple MacBook Air Laptop features iSight web-camera and back lit camera. Both the model comes with WiFi and Bluetooth 2.1 as standard features that helps you to access the internet easily.
Features of Apple MacBook Air Laptop:
19mm thinness
Weight: 1.4Kg
5 hours of battery life
80GB hard disk
12.1” display
Asus Eee PC 901 Windows XP laptop is an internet ready portable device that has Intel Mobile 1.6Ghz 
processor. This aspect of the Eee PC keeps its pace more or less, shoulder-to shoulder with the agility of the MacBook Air. Additionally, the Eee PC is capable of performing both the entertainment and business tasks with ease. This portable device scores with a rapid start-up time. Its display resolution comes to 1024 x 600 pixels, Super Hybrid Engine Technology ensures reliability and its connectivity is explained by a remarkable combination of wireless networking 802.11 a/g/n, 10/100 Ethernet port, bluetooth and SD/MMC (SDHC) slot. This machine, further comes with a built-in Solid State Disk (SSD) technology meant for energy saving, quiet operation and shock proof mobility. Asus Eee PC 901 is designed with a handful of built-in devices such as stereo speakers, bluetooth and wireless LAN aerials. Size of this machine is not at all a hindrance when it comes to it its functionality.
Features of Asus Eee PC 901 laptop:
Rapid start up
Designed for simple and ease of use
Compatible to Windows XP and Windows LiveSuite
1.6Ghz processor (Intel Atom mobile processor)
WiFi 802.11 a/g/n
SSD Memory – 12GB
Bluetooth
1024MB RAM
8.9” Display
All the features discussed above provide basic idea about the two ultraportable laptop PCs. Significant features that shine in some products make them world-famous just like an Apple MacBook Air Laptop, being named as one of the world’s thinnest laptops or an Asus Eee PC 901 Laptop being lighter in weight and arguably, more appealing.
Sony VAIO UX1 Laptop PC
August 29, 2008
Sony VAIO UX1 Ultraportable Notebook PC is obviously a fully functioning laptop PC, if you are confused by its sporty and unconventional appearance. The most striking aspect of this laptop has definitely got to be its retractable keyboard that is very much like that of a smartphone’s. This laptop coming in a dark black shade is quite appealing even though, one would just might go through a thought that silver colour should have been more appealing, more or less.
This slim laptop model comes embedded with a 4.5 inches diagonal sized X Black LCD screen that very much complies with widescreen standards with its 16:9 aspect ratio. To the user’s amusement, it is also a touchscreen. This screen puts forth a smooth slide to reveal a user-friendly QWERTY keyboard posted just beneath it. A stylus is also provided here to navigate on the touchscreen of this remarkable device. Another significant provision here is a finger-print reader.
This model is Sony’s first UMPC (Ultra-mobile PC) that runs the business edition of the Windows Vista operating system. To scroll on this operating system, this ultraportable notebook smartly offers a joy-stick pad apart from the regular mouse button. This device then, comes with a couple of cameras one of which, is embedded on the bezel just above its display screen. A macro-mode button is provided here to realise brilliant close-up photography.
Sony VAIO UX1 UMPC is driven by an Intel Core Solo 1.3GHz U1500 processor and its brain is nothing but a solid state hard drive of 32GB capacity with literally no moving parts to make a sound. The RAM memory is 1GB. The connectivity of this device primarily refers a 802.11a/b/g Wi-Fi followed by Bluetooth, Ethernet, FireWire, VGA-out and finally a high speed USB 2.0 port. This notebook PC weighs 532 grams and comes with the dimensions of 150 x 38 x 95 mm.
Toshiba Portege M300 Laptop
August 27, 2008
Toshiba Portege M300 Ultraportable Laptop PC is Toshiba’s latest addition to its ultraportable line up. This machine is a miniature one that has been made especially with a view to unplugged portability. Its ultra-compact dimensions and sleek design makes it the ideal travel companion to a good number of laptop users. Spend some time on its dimensions and weight those say 286 x 230 x 35mm and 1.7 kg respectively. Even a spendid TFT display screen of 12″ in diagonal size stands tall here to amuse the toughest of the customers. It can cosily fit in a small luggage too.
Widely, when designing such a system, most of the manufactures tend to shed considerable power. Here, Toshiba has clearly made a point by fortifying their newborn with a 1.2 Ghz clock speed, Intel Pentium M 753 ULV processor. A level 2 cache of 2MB capacity actively supports this CPU. This processor of the M300 aids in mobility too, owing to its ultra-low voltage properties that refers to minimal heat output. This machine can be used for long hours without the fear of heating up.
This ultraportable notebook from Toshiba is strengthened by a Hitachi hard drive of 60GB and a 512MB DDR SDRAM. An Intel 855 graphic card is also a smart inclusion in this laptop model. A shared video memory of 64MB qualifies this chipset. The optical drive provided here is a DVD Multi-recorder optical drive meant for DVD creation from Matshita. This supports every DVD formats that can be recorded, including DVD-RAM.
With the Toshiba Portege M300 Notebook PC, networking has been made hassle-free by including a 802.11g Wi-Fi. It works nothing less than wonders in the company of a Base-T Ethernet adaptor of 10/100. This laptop PC comes with an in-built modem as well. Three USB ports are availed in this machine along with one Mini FireWire 1 interface. This laptop further offers a battery life of up to 282 minutes.
A six fold path to enhance the battery life of the Laptop
August 25, 2008
Battery life is a significant aspect of your laptop computer, perhaps the most important if your premises warrant intensive travelling. Until this day from the day your laptop started accompanying you, you might have experienced myriad power related laptop shut downs. The irony here is that you cannot blame your laptop computer a bit, for this either, for almost all the models of different brands, more or less have identical battery lives. Therefore, following a six-fold path that would considerably reduce your power expenditure sounds reasonable in the circumstances.
The Six-Fold Path
- Keep your laptop display at a brightness level that is low, for brighter the display poorer is the battery life.
- Keep your laptop’s hard drive defragmented to allow your laptop’s hard drive to use them more efficiently by reorganising all the stored files.
- Running one program at a time considerably relieves your laptop battery of extra pressure.
- Maintain your laptop battery unexposed to excess sunlight as well as extreme temperatures.
- Engage hibernate mode instead of stand-by mode because stand-by mode uses some power, where hibernate mode smartly switches off the power after saving your system settings.
- Instead of running the disc drive of your laptop, save the relevant data to the hard drive of your laptop to run it from there.
Taken these steps, your laptop’s battery life is more likely to last longer and you know well, its significance. That, all the technological niceties of your laptop would be reduced to mere dissipation if its battery life proves nominal.
Dell Mini Inspiron Notebook PC
August 25, 2008
The US based manufacturers of Dell Mini Inspiron Laptop PC has decided to launch it in the market with an evident tag of the EEE killer. Now, the word has spread like forest fire. Dell has gone a bit more ahead to pitch it as the suiting machine for the billions of internet users, upcoming. The first word that leaked out was that Dell was about to launch a miniature form-factor laptop, which would enhance a person’s digital experience. Dell has given this idea about their upcoming challenge to the likes of Asus EEE, Apple MacBook Air, Sony Vaio G11, MSI Wind and HP Mini Note with the view of a bloody battle already on the cards. Obviously, the laptop world is of the dog eat dog sort.
The laptop computer that stresses on ultra mobility is also called Dell E Laptop PC. This device is expected to be of low cost widely. This 12.1-inch thick (or thin) device will have a display of 8.9 diagonal inches has its main attraction. The driving force behind this sleek model is an Atom Processor (Diamondville) of 1.6GHz speed. The base model of this series will definitely provide a thumping 4GB of flash memory and 512 MB of DDR2 memory. This miniature laptop model from Dell would carry the provision for a couple of smart operating systems, namely Windows XP and Linux. Of the two stalwarts, Linux would be the first option, as it comes in the form of a Black Top OS, a bit like the Splash Top. Windows XP here is expected to play the second fiddle.
Dell E MIni Inspiron Notebook PC proudly presents a solid-state hard drive, three USB slots, an integrated web camera and Wi-Fi networking. The 1024 x 600 pixels resolution of this machine’s display is also something worth putting here. Lastly, but definitely not the least, this device weighs just about 2.2 pounds.
