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Toshiba prepping dual-screen ‘GuideBook’ tablet for June launch?
Believe it or not, Toshiba has been toying around with dual-screen tablets at least as far back as 2006 , and it looks like it might be trying its hand at the idea again now that it’s catching on a bit — DigiTimes is reporting that company has a new dual-screen “GuideBook” device on track for a June launch. Unfortunately, the only other details at the moment are that the device will apparently pack two 7-inch displays, and that it will supposedly be manufactured by Toshiba in-house.
Toshiba refreshes Satellite low-power laptops in the UK
If you had your eye on a CULV-toting Toshiba Satellite ultraportable, you might to wait another month before coughing up the change — Pocket-Lint says the mysterious new Toshibas from Computex are actually updates to the T110 and T130 , and both are getting a sizable upgrade. Whereas 2009′s low-end lappy settled for a Celeron chip, the Iron Man Metallic T210 (pictured above) has a dual-core 1.2GHz Pentium U5400 powering that 11.6-inch LED-backlit display, and the 13.3-inch T230 is back in black with a Core ULV i3-330UM and a 500GB hard drive.
SMK-Link’s Notebook USB Audio Station tilts your laptop with speakers
On one hand, it’s just a laptop docking station. On the other, it’s probably the most useful laptop docking station this side of Toshiba’s dynadock V . SMK-Link ‘s simply titled Notebook USB Audio Station was just released, bringing a universal (Mac and PC) design that actually goes above and beyond the call to a product segment that’s typically a snoozefest
NVIDIA brings a dual GTX 470 prototype to Computex, causes power shortages in Taipei
We’ll hit the pause button on all the power-sipping tablet talk for a moment to show you NVIDIA’s maddest and baddest beast yet. This is a dual GeForce GTX 470 card, meaning that two Fermi dies reside on the same board, along with the necessary circuitry and an apparently beefed up apportionment of GDDR5 RAM as well. Measuring in at 12 inches long, this prototype is being shown off at Computex by add-in board partner Galaxy — probably just to prove that the mammoth undertaking is even possible.
Intel HD graphics to support 3D this summer, 30 more WiDi laptops on the way
Intel’s integrated graphics are about to get a stereoscopic shot in the arm this summer.
Brite-View HDelight brings WHDI to laptops and netbooks
We’ve been following WHDI’s story for quite awhile now, and Brite-View looks like it will be one of the first to bring the wireless HD technology to laptops with its HDelight. The setup is pretty self explanatory — you’ve got a larger-than-we’d-like box that hooks up to your laptop via HDMI and then a even larger box that attaches to a monitor or HDTV. The Brite-View guys had a demo running at the Netbook Summit, and we found ourselves quite impressed — thanks to the second-generation 5GHz WHDI chip , there’s no noticeable latency when streaming 1080p video from the laptop to the larger display.
