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Lenovo today is bringing users the highest levels of mobile workstation innovation and performance with the introduction of the ThinkPad W700ds mobile workstation. The ThinkPad W700ds gives users prime screen real-estate as the first mobile workstation in the industry with two screens. Lenovo combines a new balance of unique design with complex engineering and unparalleled performance to give users in the most demanding of fields such as digital content creation, oil and gas exploration, computer-aided design and photography, the ultimate mobile workstation.

“The ThinkPad W700ds dual screen mobile workstation challenged our international development team to engineer a notebook to fit the way workstation users work – in the office and on the road,” said Mark Cohen, vice president, Notebook Business Unit, Lenovo. “Bringing this level of innovation to the most extreme PC users required continually balancing size and functionality with keeping the PC cool and quiet. This mobile workstation is the result of where Lenovo innovation and performance intersect.”

The Power of Two
Because many workstation users typically work with two monitors, Lenovo designed the ThinkPad W700ds mobile workstation with two screens, accommodating their work habits while on-the-go and eliminating the compromise of having only one display when operating in a mobile environment. Research has shown that extra screen real-estate with multiple monitors helps maximize user productivity versus single display solutions.1 Measuring almost 40 percent of the 17-inch primary screen, the 10.6-inch second screen gives users extra screen real-estate measuring approximately the size of a Lenovo IdeaPad S10 netbook.

The second screen easily slides out from the PC cover behind the primary screen, and it can also be adjusted to fit a user’s viewing angle by up to 30 degrees, similarly to how a car’s rear view mirror tilts. This unique feature and test of engineering only adds a few millimeters in additional thickness to the mobile workstation over its predecessor, the ThinkPad W700 mobile workstation.

The second screen complements the primary optional 400-nit WUXGA display which provides up to twice the brightness of earlier ThinkPad mobile workstations. The primary screen’s 72 percent wide color gamut enables more than 50 percent greater color intensity for an uncompromised viewing experience.

Intersection of Innovation and Performance
With its second screen, the ThinkPad W700ds mobile workstation builds on the breakthrough capabilities offered in the ThinkPad W700 mobile workstation that included the industry’s first built-in digitizer and color calibrator for mobile workstations.

Ideal for digital content creators and users, the optional digitizer provides high resolution, pressure high resolution, pressure sensitive control of the primary screen, the primary and the secondary screen or a specific defined area of either screen. Select models also come with a color calibrator that quickly and automatically adjusts the screen’s color to give true-to-life images and rendering 2D and 3D images, which are important items for digital content creators.

Professional photographer, Phil Borges commented, “The Lenovo ThinkPad W700 is the ultimate in portable workstations for photographers. The built in calibration and the ultra bright monitor make it possible for me to do work on the road that I would normally have to wait to do in the studio. The W700’s two built-in hard drives make backing up photos while I’m on the road or in the studio a snap. Normally the process takes me a couple of hours, but with the W700 backup time is cut in half. Now the new ThinkPad W700ds takes it one step further with a second screen, allowing me to move all my working palets to the second screen and giving me more real estate on the main screen for photo editing.”

The ThinkPad W700ds mobile workstation gives users the latest technologies that are essential for work in data and graphics-intensive fields such as computer-assisted design, computer-aided manufacturing and others. Top processing and graphics performance includes choices of Intel® mobile quad core and extreme processors with optional dual hard drives with RAID configurations and choices of NVIDIA® Quadro FX mobile graphics. The mobile workstation offers up to 8 GB of high speed DDR3 memory and choices of solid state drive storage and traditional hard disk drives for a maximum of 960 GB of possible total storage. The mobile workstation also carries certifications from more than 20 independent software applications.

The ThinkPad W700ds mobile workstation offers a rich, customizable multimedia experience with optional ™ DVD burner/player and high speed UDMA compact flash reader, support for Dual Link DVI, Display Port and VGA, a 7-in-1 multicard reader and five USB ports. In addition to WiFi, for connectivity beyond the office, select models support WiMAX. Security features include an optional fingerprint reader, a smartcard reader and hard drives with full-disk encryption.

The powerhouse mobile workstation also balances its functionality with staying cool and quiet. Lenovo engineered a dual thermal solution to keep the ThinkPad W700ds mobile workstation running as cool as ThinkPad notebooks and quieter than the ambient noise in a typical office.

Pricing and Availability
The ThinkPad W700ds mobile workstation is available immediately through www.lenovo.com and business partners. Pricing for models starts at $3,663.

Website: Lenovo

Thermaltake proudly presents the new passive VGA cooler, Fanless 330. The passive design of Fanless 330 offers the absolute quiet operation environment for all the gamers and graphic designers who especially require supports of high end graphic cards.

Silent operation, however, isn’t the only thing that’s making Fanless 330 the next big hit on the cooling hardware market. There are three heatsink modules on SpinQ to dissipate GPU heat, and 4 efficient copper heatpipes speeding up the heat transfer. In order to further boost up the performance, the mirror coating base also ensures these well designed cooling structures on Fanless 330 are in perfect contact with the GPU.

Fanless 330, the new passive graphic card cooler from Thermaltake, has the most unique mechanical design never seen on the market. It does not just offer 0bBA operating environment, but great cooling performance and distinguishing style too!

Website: Thermaltake

Samsung Electronics America, a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Corporation, a global leader in digital media and digital convergence technologies, today announced its highly anticipated entrance in the U.S. notebook market. The product line-up includes notebooks in four different categories—Premium Thin & Light, All Purpose, Business, Desktop Replacement, and the Netbook segment.

“With Samsung’s entry into the U.S. notebook market, we are now able to provide a complete PC computing solution to our customers,” said Christopher Franey, vice president of Marketing and Commercial Sales at Samsung Electronics Information Technology Division. “The introduction of Samsung’s premium notebook offerings to the U.S. market solidifies Samsung as a global technology leader, providing advanced mobile computing designs of the highest reliability and quality.”

The X360 and X460 are 13.3- and 14.1-inch premium ultra thin-and-light notebooks with an MSRP starting at $1,599. The X360 is “lighter than air” weighing in at 2.8 pounds and achieving up to an incredible 10 hours of continuous usage, and both support Samsung’s latest 300nits SuperBright® LED backlit LCD display.

Samsung’s NC10 is a netbook with a 10.2-inch wide SuperBright LCD, enhanced capacity battery and huge 160GB hard drive, carrying an MSRP of $499. The Q310 is a highly portable all-purpose notebook with MSRPs of $1,149 and $1,299, featuring a 13.3-inch wide LCD. The R610, with an MSRP of $1,049, is a desktop replacement that features a 16-inch wide LCD.

Completing Samsung’s entry to the notebook market is the enterprise-focused P460 and P560, which are semi-ruggedized notebooks with an MSRP range of $1,149 to $1,399. All of Samsung’s notebooks will initially be available throughout the traditional IT reseller channel, including distributors Ingram Micro and D&H; direct marketing resellers including CDW, PC Computing, Insight and PC Mall; and at most major online e-tailers, including Amazon.com, NewEgg.com, Buy.com and TigerDirect.com. High-Impact Design, Full-Featured Performance, Premium Products Each notebook (with the exception of the NC10 Netbook) will feature the latest Intel® Centrino® 2 processor technology with Intel® Core™2 Duo Processors, 3 gigabytes of system RAM, 802.11 a/b/g/n WiFi, 1.3MP webcam, 3x USB 2.0 ports, Gigabit LAN, Bluetooth 2.0 and HDMI output. With these top-end specifications, Samsung’s notebooks are designed and built for the customer seeking the latest technologies integrated into highly mobile platforms. Samsung’s famous Touch of Color design – with its black to red color gradation featured on their HDTVs and desktop monitors – will also be found in the Q and R series notebooks.

Samsung is a global leader in digital convergence technologies, as well as a leader in the design and manufacturing of components for mobile computers, allowing the company to offer more flexibility in the design and functionality of its products. Over 60% of the core components that go into Samsung notebooks are Samsung-branded—from memory to hard drives to the LCD and the batteries. This sets Samsung apart from its competitors, as the company controls every aspect of each notebook, from its chassis design to its hardware and software integration. For example, Samsung notebooks are designed so all power supplies and batteries are interchangeable across the entire notebook line (netbook excepted).

Samsung’s NC10 netbook will be available in white or metallic blue color options. It will feature such high-end specifications as a 160GB hard drive and a 10.2-inch wide1024 x 600 display. It will also come with a full host of I/O ports and 802.11 b/g, Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR and a built-in 1.3 mega-pixel webcam. Most impressive is the 93% full-size keyboard and its standard 5200mAH high capacity 6-cell Lithium Ion battery, providing up to eight hours of use on a full charge. Samsung’s netbook, unlike a notebook, is designed for consumption rather than creation. With that in mind, a focus on usability and data consumption resulted in the decision to include a large hard drive and make sure long battery life was a key component.

The Samsung Q and R series feature the latest Intel Centrino 2 mobile processors, advanced graphics, large hard drives and its unique Touch of Color glossy design at very compelling prices. These models are great full-featured notebooks that look and perform well both desk and portable environments.

Samsung’s X Series highlights a huge emphasis on ultra portability and design without compromising performance. The X360 and X460 have a rugged magnesium alloy chassis and a strength-providing aluminum plate behind the LCD, a “pebble”-style keyboard, and lightweight components that bring new meaning to the phrase “thin-and-light.” Lightest in its class, the X360 at 2.8 pounds and the X460 at just 4.18 pounds combine sleek design with robust and feature-rich facets of mobile computing.

Samsung’s P Series business notebooks have a non-glossy display with an Ambient Light Sensor (ALS) adjusting the display brightness to optimize viewing. It also has a ruggedized chassis and LCD, Trusted Platform Module (TPM) with biometrics-based system security, spill resistant keyboard and hard drive shock protection. In addition, it will include a host of I/O ports, including legacy ports such as PCMCIA(PC Card), RS-232 (9-pin) serial and a 56k modem, which are still important in today’s enterprise market.

As part of Samsung’s promise of premium products, there will be an exclusion of any unnecessary software that most competitors include in their systems. The only trial software that will be included in each Samsung notebook and netbook is Microsoft Office Professional 2007 and McAfee Virus Scan 60-day trials. Each unit will include a full host of Samsung utility software that helps with system recovery and data backup, battery life management, performance boosting, network connectivity and hardware/software system diagnostics software.

Distinctive Design and Feature-Packed:

Samsung X Series
The Samsung X360 and X460 are premium thin-and-light notebooks that combine unique design with ultimate functionality.
# 13.3- and 14.1-inch wide LED backlit LCD displays with 300 nits of brightness
# 128GB Solid State Drive Option
# Only 2.8lbs. and up to 10 hrs. for X360*
# Only 4.2lbs. and up to 5 hours for X460*
# Windows Vista® Business

Samsung P Series
The Samsung P460 and P560 are business notebooks that feature ruggedized components and a business friendly design.
# NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS dedicated graphics
# Spill resistant keyboard & shock resistant hard disk drive
# Fingerprint reader and TPM system security
# Intel AMT 4.0 support
# Windows Vista® Business

Samsung Q Series
The Samsung Q310 is a 13.3-inch wide notebook that blends portability with the power of a desktop replacement.
# Intel® Centrino® 2 processor technology
# 250 or 320 GB Hard Disk Drives
# Express Card 34 expandability
# DVD +/-RW Dual Layer Disk Drives
# Windows Vista® Business

Samsung R Series
The Samsung R610 is a 16-inch wide, 16;9 aspect ratio notebook with HD resolution, an integrated 10-key pad and discrete, dedicated graphics.
# 512MB nVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS graphics
# 250GB Hard Drive
# 802.11 a/b/g/n
# Windows Vista® Business

Samsung NC10 Netbook
The Samsung NC10 is a high-end netbook with
a 10.2-inch wide screen and 160GB hard drive.
# 1.6 GHz Intel Atom Processor
# 1 GB DDR2 800MHz RAM
# 6-cell high capacity battery
# Windows XP Home SP3
* Errors and omissions accepted. Battery life based on Battery Mark test scores that will vary based on configuration.

Website: Samsung