Acer's Aspire TimeLine 1820PT hits US

Another 11.6-inch notebook with preinstalled Windows 7 Home Premium has come up to United States. New technology multitouch screen makes this device more convenient to use. By the way, touchpad has multitoutch built-in too. The screen is twistable lets you convert your notebook into usual tablet PC. The screen has resolution of up to 1366 x 768.

Intel Core 2 Duo SU7300 processor has 1.2GHz frequency, supported by 8GB RAM and GMA X4500HD makes it a pretty good device for its size. TimeLine 1820PT has also 320 GB hard drive, not that much for today's technologies. As for connectivity this Acer is filled up very well: 3G, Bluetooth, WiFi for wireless. As for wired and other outs: 3 USB ports, HDMI and VGA outs in addition to card reader. All these features make this notebook a piece of high end technology. If you liked the idea of good old tablet PC's you will love this puppy.

Acer Aspire Timeline 1820PT specs:

* Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo SU7300
* Memory: DDR3 4GB
* Hard disk: 320GB
* Display: 11.6 inch HD 1366 x 768
* Graphics: GMA X4500M HD, Intel
* Networking: Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11a/b/g, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, WiFi Link 5100
* Interfaces: 3 USB 2.0 ports, multi card reader, VGA, HDMI
* Weight: 1.72 kg

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Samsung i8910HD Gold announced, comes soon to Europe and Middle East

As we all know, designing a successful smartphone nowadays takes much more effort than it used to even a year ago. This time last year we had no iPhone 3GS, no HTC Hero, not even a single proper image of Palm Pre. Android was just raising his green head and Nokia hasn't yet sold a million of 5800s. Despite all that and considering the fact that Christmas time sales craze should start very soon, managers at Samsung decided they can do without revamping hardware and adding more functionality to software but replace some body panels. Body panels in question are from Samsung i8910HD, also known as OmniaHD, and they are substituted by golden ones.

I always thought of Samsung i8910HD as a good social networking mobile phone for youths. A fair Sidekick LX rival with its full physical QWERTY but more humble camera and price tag. No matter, replacing plastic with gold should make i8910HD Gold more appealing to… whom? Come to think of it, if I was on the market with my own money in search for a premium class mobile phone I'd walk straight to Nokia booth and grabbed something from 8xxx series, preferably an Erdos. For the last five years it was a yardstick for premium class cell phones. I'd consider i8910HD Gold as a present only. Yes, it's flashy and glamorous. I do like Champagne Gold styling, Luxury Brown is not so pretty by me, but you still get a leather case for it. For those interested, Samsung i8919HD sales will start soon in Europe and Middle East.

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Yinlips YDP800 projector PMP teases your wallet with video

We’re not sure what’s taken so long, but the Yinlips YDP800 pico projector PMP is finally available to the US, courtesy of online store Ownta. The good folks have released a demo video of the projector in action — not quite at the maximum 80-inch picture that Yinlips boasts, but hey, we’ve just about done it before on another pico projector. For around $270 including delivery this feature-packed PMP seems to give a good run for your money, especially when compared to the $299 WowWee Cinemin Swivel. No sign of any sample pictures or videos from the 1.3 megapixel camera yet, so for now just enjoy the video after the break.

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Intel: Initial Larrabee graphics chip canceled

Intel said Friday that its Larrabee graphics processor will initially appear as a software development platform only.

This is a blow to the world's largest chipmaker, which was looking to launch its first discrete (standalone) graphics chip in more than a decade.

"Larrabee silicon and software development are behind where we hoped to be at this point in the project," Intel spokesman Nick Knupffer said Friday. "As a result, our first Larrabee product will not be launched as a standalone discrete graphics product," he said.

"Rather, it will be used as a software development platform for internal and external use," he added. Intel is not discussing what other versions may appear after the initial software development platform product, or "kit," is launched next year.

Graphics chip analyst Jon Peddie, president of Jon Peddie Research, said Intel is not hitting performance targets and this became apparent at the SC09 supercomputing conference last month.

"Justin Rattner (Intel Senior Fellow) demonstrated Larrabee hitting one teraflop, which is great but you could walk across the street and buy an ATI graphics board for a few hundred dollars that would do five teraflops." A teraflop is 1 trillion floating point operations per second, a key indicator of graphics chip performance.

Larrabee, a chronically delayed chip, was originally expected to appear in 2008. It was slated to compete with discrete graphics chips from Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices' ATI graphics unit.

Intel would not give a projected date for the Larrabee software development platform and is only saying "next year."

Intel says its plans are unchanged to deliver this month the first chip with graphics integrated onto the CPU. This new Atom processor is referred to as "Pineview" (the platform is called "Pine Trail") and will be targeted at Netbooks.

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