World’s Most Expensive Laptop Costs $350,000: Cheapest Laptop is Just $100

Small world but huge difference. Today, I was searching about expensive laptops and I found one laptop to have price tag of nearly $350,000. It is Tulip E-Go Diamond. From the name you can rightly guess that it has a touch of diamond.

I could find a nice description of this laptop in AMDboard.com:

“Tulip E-Go notebook inlaid with solid palladium white gold plates in which thousands of brilliant cut diamonds have been set. The quality is V.V.S. top-Wesselton and the total weight is 80.00 Crt.

The brilliant cut diamonds are microscopic and pave set with surgical precision. This magnificent end result is possible thanks to the use of brilliant cut diamonds with a large variety of diameters.”

I do not how many people can afford this laptop or even how many people are willingly spend so much after a laptop. However, I know that those people who would buy Tulip E-Go Diamond, would simply buy it for status symbol or as a fashionable item not to play games or watch a movie with it. About its technical specification, I am quoting from Softpedia:

“The E-Go laptop is hand bag shaped and it is targeted at ladies, so, not exactly for gamers. Though, the specifications are good. The system is based on an AMD Turion 64 processor, with an ATI Radeon Xpress 200 graphic chipset and featuring 1 GB of DDR RAM PC3200 memory. The hard disk can store 100 GB SATA and the display is a 12.1 inch widescreen WHGA, supporting 1280 X 800 pixel resolution.

Also, a DVD-RW optical unit is available, a touch pad, a built in webcam with a LED illuminative point and a microphone for video and voice conferences. The connectivity is enabled by Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g, Bluetooth 1.2, the ExpressCard slot, by four USB 2.0 slots and the 10/100Base-T NIC. Additionally, VGA and S-Video port are available and a SD/MMC/MS/MS Duo card reader.

Tulip E-Go Diamond sound system is a 2.1 one stereo, while the battery has a four hour lifetime specification.”

Only four hour of battery life. I am extremely disappointed. I would not bother to pay $350,000 just to have 4 hours of battery life. Instead, I will try to have one unit of the world’s cheapest laptop at $100. Haven’t you ever heard of One Laptop Per Child project? Of course, if you are day dreaming about Tulip E-Go Diamond then you should not remember it. What is $100 laptop after all. You can find the answer in the project website:

“The proposed $100 machine will be a Linux-based, with a dual-mode display—both a full-color, transmissive DVD mode, and a second display option that is black and white reflective and sunlight-readable at 3× the resolution. The laptop will have a 500MHz processor and 128MB of DRAM, with 500MB of Flash memory; it will not have a hard disk, but it will have four USB ports. The laptops will have wireless broadband that, among other things, allows them to work as a mesh network; each laptop will be able to talk to its nearest neighbors, creating an ad hoc, local area network. The laptops will use innovative power (including wind-up) and will be able to do most everything except store huge amounts of data.”

Even this $100 laptop will have a way to charge it with alternative energy sources. So, I am a big fan of this $100 laptop. The only problem is that I am not a school children anymore. I still do not have a child of my own either. So, I will have to wait until a commercial version comes to the market at $200 or some more!

Which one would you like to buy?

Second Display Notebook from Asustek: Do We really Need That?

Digitimes has reported about this notebook from Asustek. This notebook has two displays. One is the traditional monitor inside the case. The second display is on the outer side (upper part) of the case. Here is what Digitimes said about it:

“At the ongoing Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco, Asustek Computer is showcasing a notebook that comes with a small screen on the cover. The "second display" design for notebooks enables users to operate, such as using the email and MP3 player functions, without unfolding the devices.

Similar to mobile phones with a sub display, notebooks that come with a second display are considered a special design concept for notebooks featuring the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system, according to Taiwan notebook makers.”

Those people who are extremely busy and tech savy will surely enjoy this feature of the Asus notebook. For users like me, it hardly makes any difference. I could not find any information about the price of the product. However, I know that this notebook will get popular as its design and color are beautiful too.

10 Things You Should not do With Your Laptop

Laptop pcs are more expensive than desktop pcs and that is perhaps why laptop is still not so common in many parts of the world. Laptop is still used mainly by the businessmen or executives and well off people. However, these days, laptop companies are now trying to make laptops affordable so that ordinary users can buy them. You can do many things with your laptop but there are 10 things that you should not do.

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1. Don’t keep a laptop in too hot or too cold place: Yes, both of them are bad laptop. If you do so, you only run into the risk of losing your data in the laptop.
   

2. Don’t browse Internet a lot: Internet is full of spy wares and other malicious things that can harm your laptop. The more you browse Internet, your laptop will be exposed to virus and spy wares more. So, try to keep your use of Internet in a modest level.
   

3. Don’t expect that you can play cool games in your laptop: Yes, almost all laptops are not ideal for playing 3d games. First of all, the screen is small and then the processors and graphics cards are not very powerful. So, if you are a hardcore gamer, you will only feel disappointed.
   

4. Don’t buy a laptop for doing video editing: Most laptops are not ideal for doing any kind of video editing, animation rendering or even high end graphics design. So, if you are planning to buy a laptop for this kind of work then don’t go for it. You will only get frustrated in the end.
   

5. Don’t be a MacGyver with your laptop: MacGyver is an expert and he knew what he was doing. Don’t try to open the inner part of laptop and carry out different tests. Leave it to the experts. Curiosity may not kill the cat but it will surely destroy your laptop.
   

6. Don’t show off: In this world of fashion, many people want to show off their expensive things to make others jealous. Laptop is still a cool thing to show off but there is a risk too. If you show off your laptop too much then it will become easier for the bad guys to steal it.
   

7. Don’t lend your laptop: Yes, don’t lend your laptop to your friends or relatives. Especially, if they do not know how to take care of a laptop computer then your laptop may suffer numerous problems and fixing a laptop is an expensive affair.
   

8. Don’t eat or drink: While working with your laptop don’t eat or drink. If you are too hungry or thirsty then take a break and eat and drink something and then come back to your laptop again. Liquids can simply destroy all your data in the laptop.
   

9. Don’t operate your laptop for long time: For desktop computers, it does not matter that much whether you run it 2 hours or 20 hours at a stretch. Often, we keep our desktop computers idle and open. Don’t do the same thing with our laptop. Then laptop may get overheated.
   

Don’t carry laptop the way you carry your books: Yes, never carry laptops carelessly. Always remember that it is an expensive gadget and you must be careful about it.

600,000 Laptops Get Stolen Every Year: 10 Things about Laptop Theft

Yesterday, I wrote about the data theft through a laptop of GE. Well, many top companies are suffering similar problems these days. I just read a well written report about laptop theft in Red Herring. Laptop theft is now turning a very big problem but few people are aware about it. Even, government agencies are not so serious about this matter. Big corporations are not doing enough to protect data and this is causing a lot of problems.

I am listing here ten things about laptop theft to make you aware about the severity of the problem.

1. The Department of Commerce of US, out of their 30,000 laptops, has lost 1,137.
2. Recently, the police department of Britain had to change their security arrangements after one of their laptops containing security measures of the upcoming labor party conference went missing.
3. Nearly 600,000 laptops get stolen in America every year.
4. According to Consumer rights protection group Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, ‘93 million data records of U.S. residents have been exposed due to security breaches since February 2005.’
5. 24 states in USA have some sort of a legislature regarding data privacy.
6. Companies related to laptop security are witnessing huge growth in their revenues.
7. Absolute Software has emerged as the market leader in the laptop security field.
8. LogMeIn, Inc. has come out with a good solution to track the stolen laptop.
9. Laptop theft is still a smaller problem in Asia compared to US.

If data gets stolen from the laptop of the company you work, you are in a big risk as your information of social security and credit may fall into the wrong hand. This can turn your life into a nightmare considering the high number of identity thefts.