P200 Ultraportable Notebooks Unveiled By Samsung

Samsung made a dashing entry into the ultra portable notebook market with its latest P200 business notebook. The notebook is quite light-weight and a complete and sound solution to your business needs.

It runs on Intel's latest Core2Duo chips, supported by ATI's Radeon Xpress 1250 graphics. The device sports a 12.1 inch display, 1.3 megapixel webcam, bluetooth 2.0, 6-in-1 memory card reader, a PCI express card slot and 2 USB ports. The battery life is around 3 hours and the notebook weighs only 4.2 pounds.

The price you would have to pay for it would be around $1500. The price tag is not too much considering the features this notebook offers.

A Semi-Rugged F5 Slate PC By Motion Computing

Recently, Motion Computing nearly after a year of its announcement released their "F5 Slate PC". The device has cool looks and is quite rigid. Its build quality tells us about wear and tear it can bear. This gizmo is water, dust, shock and temperature resistant. Featuring a 1.2 GHz Intel processor, a 40GB hard disk, 10.4" XGA display, built-in bluetooth and a 2 megapixel camera, this gizmo will fulfill all your needs easily and comfortably.

You can also have other cool addons like a bar code, a biometric scanner, 3 USB ports, Ethernet and lots more. Sadly, the price which the device carries may not please everyone. It can cost you $2700-$4000 depending upon the configuration you choose.

Lenovo ThinkPad R61 Reviewed

• Rating: 83 Very Good
• Rank: #4 on PC World's Top 10 All-Purpose Laptops chart (September 2007)
• Price: $858.00 - $1,574.99 at 19 online stores.
• Pros: Comfortable keyboard
• Cons: Poor sound

What you get for the money: Some R61 configurations cost as low as $670 but are bare-bones. Recently, however, an R61e with 2GB of memory, Windows Vista Home Premium, and an Intel Core 2 Duo CPU could be configured for $989.

The ThinkPad R61 has plenty of cool features, including the ThinkLight, an LED that illuminates the keyboard so you can type comfortably in low lighting. ThinkPad keyboards are among the best, and the R61's keyboard is no exception.

The laptop's modular bay lets you hot-swap devices such as a dual-layer DVD drive or an extra battery. The battery in our review unit lasted a healthy 3 hours, 19 minutes. And the 2.2-GHz Core 2 Duo T7500-equipped R61 performed well in our speed tests, earning a WorldBench 6 Beta 2 score of 80. The 14.1-inch-screen model weighs 5.8 pounds, a bit lighter than other laptops in this price range.

Worth noting: In a recent survey, Consumer Reports readers ranked Lenovo tech support as second only to Apple's. The survey also found Lenovo and Compaq laptops tied in needing the fewest repairs among eight leading laptop brands.

Drawbacks: Lenovo ThinkPads are designed more for business than pleasure, so shoppers seeking slick multimedia features should look elsewhere.