Laptop trend in 2008

Many notebooks next year will have an external display to receive more convenient e-mail and text messages, equipped with additional WiMax standards to easily access the Internet despite being cool in the park . .

Two handy screens

Like some mobile phones with internal and external displays, laptops are also following the trend of displaying information when users fold their phones. Currently there are not many types of secondary monitors on the market. But next year, there may be many new laptop models that will allow you to quickly e-mail or send instant messages right from the external screen, depending on the choice when installing.

Hybrid hard drive

Drive incorporating magnetic and solid disk technology is a device that many people think will become a "hot" product after Windows Vista launches but does not meet expectations. However, this is still a device that has the opportunity to "retry". Seagate has launched many products of this type. The biggest benefit of hybrid drives is energy saving, fast operation because the device acts as a large hard drive cache. However, the solid part (flash memory) needs to be larger to show its advantages.

Solid state storage SSD

Along with hybrid hard drives, this device is being awaited in the market next year because of its fast speed, durable performance. Although the price is still high (the 32 GB model is 500 USD), it is expected that prices will quickly decline in 2008.

The initial product using the IDE interface proved quite slow, but the latter model based on SATA has faster boot and download speeds.

Choose between HDD and Blu-ray

Consumers will have more choices when buying a laptop with a new generation optical drive. However, any choice is difficult because each of the supporters will have their own movie provider, buy HDD, you will not be able to watch movies for Blu-ray and vice versa. Hybrid drives in both formats can solve this but the cost is high.

WiMax will be crowned

This wireless Internet data transfer standard will be able to cover a wide range of cities, replacing the cable. Users can connect to the Internet on laptops from anywhere without having to go to Wi-Fi cafes.

Bright LED display outdoor

When working outdoors, LCD monitors are often flattened, so products that can be overcome such as the Toshiba R500 will be preferred.

Stricter security

Phoenix Technologies has announced a product called Failsafe for laptops, which captures the image of a computer stealer. If the hard drive contains sensitive information, you can delete it remotely to prevent it from being stolen. Along with this product is an encrypted hard drive that uses a Trusted Computing module.

Colors and shell materials are optional

Dell, HP / Voodoo and Sony have launched many models that allow customers to choose the color of the exterior. Gateway and Asus also use a variety of metals in the laptop cover design to make the machine look more valuable, and at the same time with good impact resistance.

Keyboard with lights

In the dark hours, you can still comfortably type with LED lights at the foot of each key. Products with this characteristic like ThinkPad, Dell M1730 next year will appear more.

Product packaging for different needs

There are many models that use the basic configuration for different product packages. For example, HP offers the dv9500z with a 17-inch screen priced at under $ 900, while the dv6500z 15.4-inch screen costs under $ 700.

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