Pink Laptop: Fujitsu LifeBook P8010 (Limited Edition)

The LifeBook P8010 is the latest ultraportable laptop from Fujitsu.

Black was the only color available for this laptop when it was first released in March 2008. One month the the release, the limited pink gold edition was announced in Taiwan. According to CAI Hui Si, the Associate Vice President (China Region) of Fujitsu, the reason behind the release of the limited edition, was to celebrate the breakthrough of 20 million shipments of LifeBook in Japan factory. The pink gold edition of LifeBook P8010 has a stylish design, that easily stand out from the crowd. It is limited to only 500 units.



Here's the specification of LifeBook P8010:
* Intel Core 2 Duo Processor SL7100 LV (1.2GHz, 4MB L2 cache, 800MHz FSB)
* 2GB DDR2 667MHz SDRAM memory (Dual Channel; 1GB x 2)
* 120GB S-ATA 150, 5400 rpm hard drive
* Integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100
* 12.1" Crystal View Wide XGA display (1280x800)
* Size: 11.1 x 8.25 x 1.1/1.6
* Weight: 2lbs 14.6oz (3lbs 10.1oz travel weight)
* Built-in Webcam for Instant Messaging
* Dual-Layer Multi-Format DVD Writer
* Embedded TPM and Fingerprint Sensor
* Multinational2 56K3 V.90 modem and Gigabit Ethernet LAN
* Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN (802.11 a/b/g/draft-N)
* Integrated Bluetooth Wireless
* Main battery: Lithium ion (6-cell,7.2v 8700 mAh, 62Whr)
* Windows Vista Business
* One-year International Limited Warranty

What's cool about this laptop is that it offers features that are standard in larger size notebooks, such as integrated webcam, optical drive, memory expandability up to 4GB, and fingerprint sensor for enhanced security.

A detailed review for Fujitsu LifeBook P8010 is available at notebookreview.com.

2008 VIP Asia Award: MSI PR210 YA Edition

MSI PR210 YA Edition laptop has been selected by AVING, Global News Network, as the 1st half of 2008 VIP (Very Important Product) Honoree in the Computing Category.



The 12-inch laptop is powered by AMD Turion X2 processor (up to 1.9GHz), with main memory size of up to 3GB, and 160GB of hard drive. Other standard features such as WiFi, DVD burner, USB, etc. are included as well. Here's the standard spec for MSI PR210 YA Edition laptop:

- Processor: AMD ATthon 64×2 Dual Core TK-55 1.8GHz
- HDD: 2.5INCH S-ATA 120GB(5400rpm)
- Display: 12.1inch Glare Wide display(1280×800)
- Graphic: ATI Radeon X press 1270
- M/B: ATI RS690T SB600
- ODD: DVD Super Multi
- OS: Free DOS
- Connector/Slot:USB x 3, audio, RJ45, RJ11,HDMI,D-SUB/ Multi Card Slot, EXPRESS Slot
- Color: denim blue, wasabi green, coral pink, alloy black

With the elegant and slim design of this laptop, combined with the fashionable and striking color (denim blue, wasabi green, coral pink, and alloy black), the MSI PR210 YA provide an invigorating and fresh new way to compute.

Pink Laptop is Getting Popular

Pink laptop is getting popular. Laptop manufacturers who provide pink color option for their product is already seeing this trend:

- Pink is the second most popular color option for Dell Inspiron laptop
- At Amazon, the pink VAIO CR has the top sales among all Sony-branded laptop
- At Asus Eee PC retailer, the blush pink is the best seller

Due to this hot pink laptop trend, many new laptop models announced this year, ranging from high-performance systems to low-cost models, start to include pink color option: MSI Wind, Acer Aspire One, Dell's XPS M1530 & M1330 and yet to be released mini-notebook, Thinkpad, Toshiba etc..

Of course, there are still quite a lot of laptop models that don't offer pink color option, such as MacBook, ThinkPad, Vostro, HP, etc. If you are using one of these laptop models which don't offer pink color option, you can still jump into the pink fashion trend by applying pink laptop skin, pink laptop case, or if you don't mind spending more money, you can send your laptop to Colorware for painting.

Pink Leather Case For MacBook Air

Japanese company, Bird Electron is coming out with a nice looking leather case for MacBook Air. If you are a Apple product fan, we are sure you remember when Steve Jobs pulled the MacBook Air out of a manila envelope.. Now you can replace the manila envolope with this nice looking leather case (will be available in pink and black), and impress your friends at the cafe before they have second thoughts about the practicality of the sexy little device.

Here's the photos on Akihabara News show.


They look fairly nice, with double-circle tie that is more durable and protective than heavy-duty paper. However, it's unclear if they'll make it to U.S. shores from Japan.

Pink Laptop: Hello Kitty Laptop From Epson & Sanrio

Because of the exposure of more and more younger age kids to the lsptop PCs, Epson and Sanrio has teamed up to release a new laptop model, NJ2100, with 2 different Hello Kitty designs.

The Hello Kitty Laptop from Epson & Sanrio was released on May 28. The laptop is available in 2 different design: either a floral-inspired or airplane-dominated theme.



Spec of the laptop:
- Intel Celeron 540 (1.86GHz) CPU
- 1GB RAM
- 80GB HDD
- DVD-ROM/CD-RW compo driveIEEE 802.11b/g wireless LAN
- Gigabit Ethernet
- 15.4-inch display
- FireWire socket, four USB 2.0 ports, and a PC Card slot
- Windows Vista® Home Premium Service Pack 1
- Norton Internet Security 2008OEM
- Price: 147,000 yen (USD 1,410)

As you can see, the NJ2100 Hello Kitty laptop might look like a toy for kids, but it comes with a pretty high-end spec, and the price is pretty as well. But if you are a Hello Kitty's fan, who cares about the price or the spec?


If you are not satisfy with just the the Hello Kitty design laptop, you can choose to spend a little more money for Hello Kitty accessories, such as Hello Kitty mouse & mousepad combos, and a USB memory cellphone strap with connector. They are all available online at the Sanrio website.

Pink Gaming Laptop: Toshiba Qosmio X305

Qosmio X305 is the latest gaming laptop from Toshiba that will be released on 14-July-2008. It will be a pink color laptop, with 17-inch WSXGA+ screen, 1GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX with turbo cache VRAM, 3Ghz intel dual core processor, Up to 4GB of DDR3 RAM, and dual high speed 7200RPM hard drives up to 500GB a pop. Other features include the Harmon Kardon stereo speaker system with subwoofer.

Here are some pictures of pink gaming laptop: Toshiba Qosmio X305



Update: Toshiba Qosmio X305 pink gaming laptop is now available on Toshiba website.

Pink Laptop Bag: Lucy Laptop Bag

The 17" Large Lucy Laptop Bag is designed in cheery pink color with white piping and a large, white heart patch on the front. Any lady who carry this pink laptop bag will looks confident, has a great sense of humor; like she wears her heart on her sleeve.


The Lucy pink laptop bag is cute, and well designed for great usability. It has quite a number of inside pockets, a magnetic snap outer pocket (great for travel docs), soft & comfortable shoulder straps and metal feet. It weight only 2.4 lbs, which is pretty light for a laptop bag at this size. Besides being a pink laptop bag, you can also use it as a handbag by just taking out the computer clutch.

The Lucy laptop bag is the product of the company named Plastic People -- so guess what's the material of this product?

Plastic.

Although the material is a kind of plastic, it's wonderfully soft and supple, like leather. It also comes with an adorable matching clutch & mirror included.

Designer of this laptop bag: Shannon South
Price: $165 for 15" laptops, $175 for 17" laptops

Pink Laptop Case: MacBook Air Shield

Another cool laptop case that will turn your MacBook Air into a pink Laptop.. Agent 18 has announced a new case for the MacBook Air: MacBook Air Shield.

The MacBook Air Shield is made of durable, lightweight polycarbonate. And different from other MacBook Air cases, the MacBook Air Shield provides accessibility to all connectors and features an opening for the notebook's vents to prevent overheating.

The MacBook Air Shield fits around the edges of the lid and also cover most of the bottom of the case. This case is available in 3 colors: pink, white and black. It's available at Apple Store and will cost $49.95.

Pink Laptop: Van Der Led Jisus V2

Van Der Led will be releasing a new laptop model called Van Der Led Jisus V2, which will be a 10-inch pink leather laptop. Here's the detail spec of the laptop:

- Processor: VIA C7-M 1.6GHz
- Memory: 1GB DDR2 533
- Hard Drive: 80GB 5400rpm
- Screen Display: 10.2 Inch 16:9 (1024x600 pixels), LED backlight
- Network: Wi-Fi: 802.11 a/b/g wireless LAN; Bluetooth: Bluetooth 2.0; Built-in 1 x 10/100Mbps
- Graphics: VIA Chrome9 HC
- Battery: 3 Hours of wireless productivity (3 Cell 7.4V, 2200mAH )
- Operating system: Ubuntu, others possible

The pink Van Der Led Jisus V2 laptop comes with a slightly larger screen size, and several differences with in features compare to the previous version of 8.9-inches Jisus laptop. Besides the size, processor, graphic card, hard drive being different, Van Der Led Jisus V2 has extra features such as bluetooth, and the leather case. The battery life however is only 3 hours which is less than the 4.5 hours of the 8.9-inch version.

The pink leather case Jisus V2 laptop will be released to the market on 20-June-2008. There will only be the pink leather case version available, and the selling price will be 350EUR.

Other features of Jisus V2 laptop are: VGA out, mic and earphone port, 2 USB ports, built-in stereo speakers, 4-in-1 media card reader (SD/MS/MS-Pro/MMC) slot, and RJ45 port. Considering the low cost and the descent features offered by the Jisus V2, it will be a good alternative for the Eee PC.

Pink Laptop: Van Der Led Jisus

Another low cost mini laptop: Van Der Led Jisus. This laptop comes with 8.9-inch display, and is another laptop that come into competition with Asus Eee PC (and MSI WIND, and Acer Aspire One, etc.).

Van Der Led Jisus laptop is from Netherlands, and has just been released last month (25-May-2008). What makes the laptop special is the design with special logo on it. There are various colors available for Van Der Led Jisus laptop: pink, white, black, yellow etc.



Here is the specs of the Van Der Led Jisus laptop:

- Processor: 1.0 GHz, 64-Bit Loongson 2F
- Memory: 512 MB DDR2-667
- Hard Drive: 4GB Nand flash
- Graphics: SM712
- Monitor: 8.9" LCD screen (800×480 pixels), LED backlight, VGA port
- Network: Wi-Fi: 802.11b/g wireless LAN; Realtek 8139 10/100Mbps Ethernet (RJ-45)
- USB port: 2 x USB 2.0
- Audio: 1 x microphone port 1 x two channel earphone port
- Build in stereo speakers
- Battery: 4.5 Hours of wireless productivity
- Operating system: Ubuntu, others possible

The Jisus laptop has quite a number of similarities with Asus Eee PC: 4G flash-based hard drive, VGA port, LED backlight monitor, and almost identical style of its full keyboard and trackpad compare to Eee PC.

The price of Van Der Led Jisus is 299.99EUR.

Dell's Mini Laptop

More laptop manufacturer is jumping into the mini laptop race. Asus Eee PC is the first who release their mini laptop, then comes WIND from MSI, followed by Aspire One from Acer, and now Dell is going to release their first low cost mini laptop.

The low cost mini laptop has not been officially announced, but is instead just having a few pictures leaked from Gizmodo's site. According to the site, the new mini laptop from Dell was spotted during the interview with Michael Dell at All Things D.

The model name and the price of the laptop is still unknown. All we can know now (through visual speculation) is the laptop has the following features/components: 8.9-inch screen, USB ports, a card reader, VGA output, Ethernet, and that red candy shell. Rumors has says that the new mini laptop from Dell is going to be run on either Ubuntu or XP operating system, with Intel’s new Atom 1.6GHz processor, and the price of around $500.

The new mini notebook from Dell will be giving more tough competition to the UMPC market.

Acer Aspire One

After Asus Eee PC and WIND from MSI, here comes the Acer Aspire One which is the latest low cost mini notebook from Acer. It was first introduced at the Computex trade show in Taipei on Tuesday.



To no one's surprise, the Acer Aspire One comes with the Intel Atom Processor, and running Linpus Linux Lite. Here's the detail spec of Acer Aspire One:

- Intel Atom @ 1.6Ghz
- 512MB of RAM
- 8GB of SSD.
- 8.9" LED-backlit 1024×600 screen
- 3hrs (3-cell) and 6hrs (6-cell) battery options
- Size: 248mmx170mmx29mm
- Colors: sapphire blue, seashell white, golden brown and coral pink
- OS: Linupus Lite OS

And here's the video for hands on of Acer Aspire One:



Acer will make this product available starting from 2nd July, and the price will be $379. A Windows XP version with 1 GB RAM and 80GB hard drive will then be available later in the same month. The price for the Windows XP version is still unknown.