3 more years will be the 'booming' time of rotating screen laptops

The screen of notebook notebook, designed to be turned back into a tablet PC, will be a popular image in the near future as investment and production costs fall.

Like PDAs and flat-panel PCs that take several years to gain a place on the world market, convertible laptops (laptops that rotate) are still in their early stages and will further prove its usefulness in life. Daily life of consumers. Currently, the price for a rotating notebook and tablet is 300 USD higher than a regular laptop but can be reduced to only 75 USD when output increases.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is launching Lenovo's new ThinkPad X41 tablet. Ballmer said the tablet will run on Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 operating system.

Gateway's new line of CX 2600 laptops starts at $ 1,349, a 14-inch screen revolves around a titanium shaft. Notebook is equipped with flash card reader, wireless feature and battery lasts 9 hours.

Hewlett-Packard's Compaq tc4200, introduced for the first time in February this year, is relatively affordable at $ 1,599, $ 44 less than the Compaq nc4200 notebook.

Lenovo's X41T tablet is the first ThinkPad with a single-axis rotating screen and also the first product after the acquisition of IBM's computer division earlier this year. X41T is priced at 1,899 USD.

Weighs 0.9 kg, Fujitsu P1510 LifeBook is equipped with 8.9-inch screen, 1.2 GHz processor, 60 GB hard drive, 1 GB RAM, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. This notebook was released in August for $ 1,499.

Acer is one of the pioneering companies in the production of Tablet PC. 4th generation C310 version of TravelMate, sold for $ 1,649.99. It has a 14-inch screen, Intel's Pentium M processor, and an 8.5-hour battery life.

LE 1600 of Motion Computing, used exclusively in hospitals and insurance organizations, costs $ 2,049, Intel's 1.5 GHz chip, 512 MB RAM and a 30 GB hard drive.

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