Nokia has announced today that the highly anticipated Booklet 3G netbook will begin selling at Best Buy for $300 USD, as long as customers sign up for a $60 USD per month mobile data service plan with AT&T.
Those who do not want to sign up for the service, will have to shell out $599 for the device and can use Wi-Fi.
The full specs for the device are:
Dimensions
Weight (max) 1250 g
Dimensions (max) 264 x 185 x 19.9 mm
CPU and Chipset
Intel Atom Z530, 1.6 GHz
Intel Poulsbo US15W, fanless design
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The large optical drive maker Lite-On has announced the launch of the industry’s fastest internal DVD writers, each capable of writing to DVD-R at 24x speeds.
Each of the three drives will also include Lite-On’s SmartErase technology which will allow users to erase sensitive data on both CDs and DVDs.
The company has added their LabelTag technology will be included in the high end iHAS624 burner. Lite-On adds that “the feature allows users to create label tags on the data side of any blank disc, allowing them to burn data after making the label in separate recording sessions.”
Price and exact release dates were not released but the cheaper iHAS324 burner will have a SATA interface and should be available next month.
The mid range iHAP424 has a PATA interface and will include standard LightScribe labeling capabilities.
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Seagate has announced a new line of drives that are slated to offer a capacity of 2 trillion Bytes (2TB) - eventually. The first Constellation drives are expected to start shipping sometime during the first quarter of this year. But unlike the Western Digital Caviar Green drives which can already be pre-ordered from many vendors, the actual 2TB capacity Seagate drives may not ship until late summer.
The 2.5″ drives to be released first will feature capacities up to 500GB and be offered with either a SATA or SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) interface. Like Western Digital, Seagate is promoting their new drives’ power efficiency. As of yet though it’s difficult to make a comparison between the two since Seagate hasn’t released many specifics.
Based on what little information is available on their website the new drives appear to be comparable to or slightly worse than Western Digital’s existing drive lines. While they claim their new PowerChoice techology gives them “the highest power-reduction savings ever offered in an enterprise-class HDD,” looking at the specs for their current products that makes sense. They already appear to use about 20% more power than comparable Western Digital units.
