Toshiba packs Qosmio laptop with goodies
Toshiba has updated its Qosmio entertainment center laptop with Intel’s new Core Duo processor and a bunch of other goodies. When your work is done, or you just need a break, you can watch television, view DVD movies, play games and listen to music on the Qosmio G35-AV600.
Best of all, you can do so without powering up its operating system.
The laptop has a digital amplifier, a television tuner, a digital video recorder and a super bright 17-inch wide-screen display. The laptop also includes two 80-gigabyte hard drives, 1GB of memory, 256 megabytes of video memory, a five-in-one media reader and a remote control. It costs $2,400.
www.toshibadirect.com
Taking pictures,
and more, seriously
Tired of shooting so-so photos with your camera phone? Try snapping pictures with Sony Ericsson’s K790 cellphone. Equipped with a Sony
Cyber-shot 3.2-megapixel camera, this camera phone offers red-eye correction, image stabilization, a video clip mode and a rapid-fire option that can snap nine shots in quick succession. Plus, the phone has a handy blogging tool, allowing you to create and update a blog with text and images sent directly from the phone. The phone also features a 2-inch color screen, a music and video player, 64MB of memory, a USB port and a built-in Google search tool. Available in the late summer or early fall, it will cost $600.
www.sonyericsson.com
Card does double duty
SanDisk’s Ultra II SD Plus Card works two ways. When placed inside a camera, the Secure Digital flash memory card can handle high-resolution images with writing speeds up to 9MB per second and reading speeds of 10MB per second. When you’re done taking photos, the card can be removed from the camera and folded in half to reveal a high-speed USB connector that can be plugged into a computer. A 2GB version will go on sale in June for $135. A 512MB card costs $70 and
a 1GB version is $90. Both are available now.
www.sandisk.com
Backups made simple
Don’t have the time or the know-how to back up tax files, family photos and other vital data on your PC? Symantec promises to simplify the task with a new program that’s easier to install and use. When backing up files with Norton Save & Restore, you can create an exact copy of the hard drive or select specific files to save. You also can set it to automatically back up specific types of files, such as photos, music and documents. And should disaster strike, Symantec Corp. says its program can recover data from your PC, even when you can’t access its operating system. The title costs $70.
www.symantec.com
