Intel told us to expect cheap, thin, midsized laptops to start showing up in major laptop manufacturers’ catalogs this summer, and sure enough, Lenovo announced theirs one week later. Next up, according to Digitimes: Hewlett-Packard.
For all its impressive engineering and hyper-stylised design, the ultrathin laptop category isn’t very enticing, mainly because every entrant is laughably expensive. But now, Intel’s trumpeting an entirely new approach to thin laptops: compromise!
I’m not entirely sure that these sets can lay claim an actual record, but LCD’s 1080p, 6mm-deep, sub-9kg, 42-inch and 47-inch TVs do look awfully thin.
By Panasonic, this plasma just inches millimeters out Pioneer’s 9mm previous best. It’s 8.5mm thick on the dot and it uses 50% less power than veteran Panasonic plasma tech. Bonus shot:
The CES countdown is nearing its end, and JVC has let loose details on its Japanese site of a prototype LCD TV that will be more waifish than even the most figure-conscious booth babe.
PC World is reporting today that Samsung has managed to cram an LED backlit HDTV into a housing that’s no more than 6.5mm thick. Don’t sneeze or breathe too hard around this one.
LG plans to take the thinnest LCD TV crown at CES 2009 with the LH95, which supports 240Hz and a 2 million to 1 contrast ratio.
According to this teaser site and this fashion site, Dell has a laptop coming that may be both lighter and thinner than the MacBook Air.
