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Digital Foci, a company which makes products used to enjoy digital photos, today announced a new portable digital picture viewer with a built in hard drive and memory card reader. The Picture Porter Elite will become available for purchase in May, with a start price of $499 depending upon the hard drive storage size.
The Picture Porter Elite, said Digital Foci, offers up two storage capacities
The launching of the $1,899 WinBook W362 marks the appearance of an impressive new level of functionality in WinBook’s widescreen notebooks. WinBook W362 models feature enhanced graphics with the ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 GPU and quicker performance from the Intel Pentium-M processor 755 (2.0 GHz, 2 MB L2 Cache, 400 MHz FSB).
WinBook also is introducing the $1,399 WinBook W322 model with Intel Pentium-M 725 (1.6 GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 400MHz FSB). Both new models will be shipping in time for holiday deliveries.WinBook W362 models make creating DVDs, CDs and MP3s is easy with the standard DVD/+R/RW. Gaming and DVD playback are enhanced by the standard 15.4-inch WXGA (1,280 x 800) widescreen LCD and ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 graphics with 64 MB video RAM.
eMachines launched the T2824, the T2958, and the T3092, all priced at less than $600. All three machines are designed for consumers wishing to purchase a cheaper alternative than higher-priced, more powerful PCs, such as a computer for the den, or a new PC for a student heading off to college.
All of the new eMachines PCs offer either CD or DVD burners plus a 8-in-1 card reader.
At $399.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate, the eMachines T2824 ships with an Intel Celeron D 325 processors, 256 Mbytes of RAM, a 40-Gbyte hard drive, a combo CD/DVD burner, and the memory-card reader.
Quote from the review at The Tech Report:
“SMALL FORM FACTOR PCs are all the rage these days, and for good reason. Running a high-performance system inside a toaster-sized enclosure is a tantalizing prospect for LAN party regulars, users looking for a less obtrusive desktop or home theater system, and PC enthusiasts who are looking to ride the bleeding edge of the latest trend.
Although the portability and performance of small form factor systems like Shuttle’s XPCs can’t be denied, the diminutive cubes aren’t perfect. For starters, the majority of small form factor systems offer only one PCI slot. Most users probably won’t feel restricted by a single PCI slot, but anyone looking to run a 24-bit audio card alongside a PCI-based TV tuner or Wi-Fi card need not apply.
Quote from the review at T-Break:
“Just like the previous model, the Optical drive sits on top and is hidden through a retractable cover making the overall look of the Mega180 more like an entertainment unit than a PC. The LCD has also gone through major changes. Instead of an orange background with a black display, MSI goes for a black background and a multi-color display which matches the unit’s look real well. The navigation buttons on the Mega180 are placed below the LCD which is also better then placing them next to the navigation Shuttle like the previous model.
From Western Digital’s press release:
Continuing to deliver the ultimate choice in feature-rich storage products, Western Digital Corp. today introduced its Media Center storage peripheral. The Media Center combines a 250 GB WD Caviar® SE hard drive, an 8-in-1 memory card reader, USB 2.0 hub and the company’s exclusive Dual-option Backup feature in one convenient external storage device. Western Digital’s Media Center is the only storage peripheral that provides consumers with all-in-one functionality and an easier way to download and store files from a variety of digital accessories.
Quote from the review:
“After hearing the readers of my original review rant and rave about me not stressing and testing the MPEG-4 playback, I decided to re-do parts of the review, which should be apparent if you read the original. I’ve tested out MPEG-4 playback quite a bit, and I found it to be nothing short of excellent. It works like advertised, and provides an amazing level of convienence to those people who download many DivX videos. Instead of having to waste hours of their time per movie to convert the file into the right format, all they need to do is burn it to a CD. It’ll then be ready for watching.
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