Ben Heck (aka Benjamin J Heckendorn aka The Hackesche Dorn) has increased again, and we are not doing that in the suicidal mind. His latest project is a Commodore 64 laptop.

After endless delays, Ben finally begun and the project in an astonishingly short week and a half. Within the rather smooth and beautiful retro-Box is an original C64 motherboard, a Gamecube and a power piece of hardware than 1541-III, the tricks of the C64 in an SD card to see how a floppy drive.

While similar price 12 – and 13-inch notebooks was annouced at the show, 3.8 pounds and less-than-an-inch thick dv2 does not feel like a budget notebook with a fixed cover (available in black and white) and Robust construction. It is also quite Looker with a nice shiny surface and attractive etchings on its palm rest.Enable it to consider its affordable price is AMD’s new platform Yukon Neo or Athlon processor, was designed so as not against the bank, but notebooks of this size exteremely thin (think a Netbook-type device with a larger screen and more power). With its 1.6-GHz AMD Athlon MV-40 Neo CPU paired with ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3410 Graphics of the notebook can be high-definition content (an external Blu-ray drive is available) and a large part of the multi-tasking. Rounding out the impressive notebook SRS Premium Sound, Integrated Webcam, and support for up to 4 GB RAM, 500 GB hard drives and mobile broadband options. Dv2 HP leads the pack of a new type of ultra-portable and affordable, we expect that the other notebook Manufact to follow.

Sony Japan have just unleashed a new set of crocodile skin VAIO C-series laptops. Available in pink, red and brown, not colorful crocodiles were damage in the texturing of these notebooks instead, Sony form of plastic to resemble their scaly hides.Within this structured plastic, there is a choice of Intel Core 2 Duo processors, NVIDIA GeForce 9200 GS GPU, and up to 8 GB of RAM. Memory is up to 500 GB and the OS is Windows Vista.

Initially only available in Japan, Sony VGN-CS92DS, VGN-VGN-CS92JS and CS92XS is on 18 April. No word on whether they consider it to Europe or the USA.

In these days many are following Asus’ foot step, producing a laptop or UMPC in the pretty low price of $ 200 – $ 400 Another way the laptop grabbed some blurry shots in the last few weeks, now has been confirmed – it is the CTL 2Go PC.CTL 2Go PC is somehow similar marketing strategy to other budget items laptop makers, in the education market for students. 2Go PC will retail for around 400 U.S. Dollar. Through the first sight for the entire design of the laptop, it does not look that the most appealing eyes. This is also one of the reasons why it does not catch my eye when it is in circulation for many other sources.

Specification wise – the 2Go PC is equipped with a 9-inch 800 640 LED-backlit display, a 1-GHz Intel Celeron M processor, 512 MB RAM (expandable to 1 GB) and a 40 GB 4200 rpm 1.8 inch HD. It would also be equipped with wireless-G adapter, an SD MMC card reader, a webcam, 2 USB 2.0 ports, a 3 hours battery, comes with Windows XP (and Linux). The question is whether the price is 400 U.S. dollars includes the license for Windows XP. If yes, the Linux version could be cheaper than $ 400. Besides the 2Go PC seems to come that, with a handle to the body for easy transport.

MSI has formally present their latest touchscreen nettop ALL-IN-ONE, the MSI Wind Top AE1900. First discovered on the Japanese Web site in February, 18.5-inch nettop has a single core Intel Atom 230 processor, up to 2 GB of RAM and a 160 GB hard drive, along with a DVD burner.The 16:9 display is running at WSXGA resolution and has an integrated 1.3-megapixel webcam, stereo speakers and microphone. Connectivity includes WiFi b/g/n, Gigabit Ethernet, a 4-in-1 memory card reader, audio in out, four USB 2.0 ports and a modem.

According to MSI, the Wind Top AE1900 requires only 45W at full load. Now that partly because of the low-power Atom processor, but if you sign up for an always-on kitchen PC for basic web browsing, media playback, messaging, and – perhaps most importantly – you want he is like an old Apple Cinema Display, this could be the nettop all-in-one for you. No word on availability or pricing yet.

Nova Media has the iCON 225 (not pictured), its newest 3G USB modem for Macs. The device offers HSDPA connectivity at up to 7.2Mbps download and 2Mbps upload speeds, as well as EDGE and GPRS connections with a maximum of 80kbps and 220kbps upload download speeds. iCON 225 is not SIM-locked or in a particular network, and allows users to SIM cards from most service providers.

The iCON 225 is an Internet Connection Wizard, launch2net, to streamline and contains links connection settings for most mobile network operators as well as up to 8 GB of memory through a microSDHC slot. A lanyard and USB extension cable also packed with the modem. Compatible with Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later, the icon 225 is available.

New announcements of netbooks may tend to be very boring. Most of them hold pretty much the same form factor and specifications, but with slightly different designs and logos on the lid suggested. If OCZ announced their Neutrino netbook it seemed like just another Netbook with nothing special. OCZ turns out, is actually trying something a bit different.

OCZ is usually known for the creation of memory and other PC components, non-current machinery. To proceed with this, the neutrino is considered part of the Do-It-Yourself program. Anyone can be the most barebones of the Netbook, including everything except the RAM, hard disk, card reader and installed OS. The idea is, the buyer will be able to find the best prices on the aspects of the Netbook, and adapt them to their wants needs. The obvious market is for the hardcore technicians who are already their own machines, but OCZ is the packaging with full instructions so someone should be able to view the Netbook itself.

The idea for the construction of hardware usually results in some higher end, but ultimately cheaper desktop machines. The bones of the neutrino with the rest of the parts which can also be purchased, resulting in lower prices than most Netbooks. Suppose you already have the OS disc, or are planning to Ubuntu or Ubuntu-based Linux distributions, a fast Newegg search results in a $ 60 2.5 “HDD 250GB, and $ 20 for a 2 GB stick of RAM. How to save a few dollars for the possibility of the machine itself, and finally know what the inside of a Netbook looks like ribs, without any except. Seems a decent treatment to me.

1. Minimize the screen brightness. Normally I do not like my laptop screen brightness, because it my eyes tired very quickly. In my experience, by the turn the screen brightness, it can be your laptop battery for longer 45 minutes to an hour.2. Turn off Bluetooth and wireless device. Many add some device such bluetooh and wireless. Do you know if they are the faster laptop battery drain? It is the device in the proximity (Bluetooth) or hotspot (wireless). If they can not find it, they still try to search it. Simply both right now! Use it if you want to use and turn it off again after they have already done so.

3. Change your wireless USB mouse. Many people use a USB or Bluetooth mouse with radio or infrared connection. But they do not realize when they drain the power of your laptop battery. I commend you, the cables for the mouse to your notebook longer battery life.

4. Install more memory RAM. I recommend the installation of 1 GB of RAM minimum, to your hard drive does not turn too often. This is your system and makes it so that your hard disk does not have to do as much work.

5. Install Windows XP than Vista. When you install Windows Vista, I recommend installing Windows XP. The Vista OS in my experience really drain your notebook battery quickly. The Windows XP, less services in the background.

6. Turn the disk indexing. Usually by using NTFS partition, there is an option to enable disk indexing. With him on the Windows more or less constant index of the hard disk, which results in the HD spinning, even if they do not really need. But becareful, by pressing the indexing means that if you search a drive, it takes a bit longer.

7. Battery condition. Battery on your laptop have a memory. It will be recognized when you plug and unplug the power cord. If the battery is not conditioned every so often you may see a significant decrease in battery life. Everything you need to do, the battery completely down, letting it shut down by itself, let it recharge, without it, and then was conditioned.