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Laptops → WinBook WS5000 Core 2 Duo
Sotec offers a new BTO Ultra, the WinBook WS5000, a compact PC with a 12” screen, a 1024x768 resolution. You can choose between a Core 2 Duo T5500, T7200 or T7400, from 40 to 120GB SATA hard disks, from 512MB to 1.5GB of memory, a DVD burner, etc.
Laptops → WD Bumps Its Notebook Storage Capacity to 160GB
Western Digital finally joins Seagate and Hitachi in offering 5400RPM, 160GB hard drives for notebook computers. Western Digital's new 160GB Scorpio SATA hard drive employs perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) to achieve its capacity and features a 5400 RPM spindle speed.
Laptops → Belkin Announces Portable Home Laptop Stands
Belkin announced its new CushTop and PocketTop laptop stands on Tuesday. Both are designed to sit between your legs and laptop, and are geared towards home users instead of travelers.
Laptops → Win a laptop with The Publican Food Report 2006
Publicans completing the annual Publican Food Report survey can win a Toshiba laptop or one of 75 other great pub food prizes.
The internet-ready Toshiba laptop is a prize from Menumakers, the new online menu-building service which brings together three foodservice brands. Menumakers, from Moy Park Foodservice, enables pubs to plan regular and seasonal menus, using templates which can be found at menumakers.co.uk. The recipes are supported by a profit calculator for each dish.
The brands included are Chickwich Premier coated chicken products, Health Farm chicken products, and the Kitchen Range Foods portfolio, which includes snacks, sharing platters, main courses and desserts.
Laptops → Laptop Dock Works Fine for Light Office Apps
Notebook docks eliminate the harried feeling you get plugging and unplugging numerous peripherals whenever you set down or pick up your notebook. Kensington's Notebook Expansion Dock with Video is for notebook owners who can't get a matching dock from their laptop vendor. Although it has some limitations, many users will find it a worthwhile accessory.
The $180 dock connects to your notebook via a USB 2.0 connection. It offers four USB 2.0 ports, speaker and headphone/microphone jacks, and an ethernet port. Its most interesting feature, however, is its USB-to-VGA connection, which lets video travel through the dock's VGA port and out to an external monitor.