Apple iPad Available to the Public on April 3

Just slightly delayed versus plan, the most-awaited Apple iPad tablet computer will go on sale in US stores on April 3 and in other countries in late April

I was never too impressed with Apple iPad when it was introduced since it seems to fall in between the already innovative iPhone/ iPod vs. the netbook

But the iPad runs more than a hundred thousand applications that already operate on iPhone & iPod. The slight delay in availability did not appear to concern investors on Wall Street and Apple shares hit a record high of 219.70 dollars at one point.

AFP reports, the iPad has a 9.7-inch (24.6-centimeter) color screen and resembles an oversized iPhone. It is 0.5 inches (1.3 centimeters) thick, weighs 1.5 pounds (0.7 kilos) and comes with 16, 32, or 64 gigabytes of memory.

Have you seen the new iPod Shuffle?

Half the size and still less than $100, the iPod shuffle just keeps getting better and better... or is smaller and smaller?

What's cool here is that it stores 4 gigabytes which is equivalent to about a thousand songs. It also has a voice over feature now that tells you which song is playing as well as how much battery you've got left. They're calling it the new Apple virtual DJ - that's quite cool, it should sound like Apple's Mac, he's quite cute.

The new iPod shuffle can do this in 14 different languages too! Beat that! I can barely speak the one that's supposed to be my native tongue. It should though, given that there's no space for a screen since it's now really really tiny. It comes in silver or black which is nice and safe

MacBook Air Prices Discounted by $500!

Although the base model for Macbook Air with a slower processor and a traditional optical disk drive instead of the solid state drive, remains $1,799 - to everyone's surprise the high-end version supermodel-thin MacBook Air laptop is now, to $2,598 from $3,098. That $500 is about 16% off the retail price! Great for bargain hunters looking to buy a Macbook

And why is the sudden $500 discount on the high-end Macbook just 6 months after its release? Well according to Apple spokesperson Bill Evans, apparently the options to upgrade a MacBook Air to a faster Core 2 Duo processor and a 64 gigabyte solid-state drive are now more affordable. Falling NAND flash memory prices is certainly benefiting customers then or maybe Apple just wants to sell more of their units - who knows.

Apply did right by their already loyal customers though, those who purchased the unit at full price will actually get a $500 refund! Isn't the just nice? I truly appreciate a company who wouldn't rip people off like that. That's absolutely outstanding of Apple.

I personally think a Macbook is sexy. But I went with Lenovo on my unit, because I thought the Mac was too expensive for me and my usage.

Newest PDA Phone In the Market: Samsung Instinct

Very similar to the iPhone - it actually looks and feels like an Apple iPhone, Samsung's Instinct is the spitting image of iPhone, I'm the one worried about patent issues and stuff like that. It has a touch-screen interface, wireless internet, multimedia functions, bluetooth, camera, camcorder, expandable memory, GPS, email and web browsing, with other features that may put it just a short step above Apple's iPhone.

Instinct also comes with first-rate voice-command features. Simply press the voice-input ('Speech to Action') button on the right side, and you can initiate calls or text messages to contacts in your address book, or launch key applications.

Napster's New MP3 Store FREE For 7-Days Plus Get A Chance To Win A Zen V MP3 Player

Well Napster has just joined the association against Apple iTunes when it opened the world's biggest MP3 download store with more than 6 million songs last Tuesday

What makes this idea brilliant is that the music store is web-based (http://free.napster.com/) and has digital songs from all major music labels as well as thousands of independent labels.

The MP3-format songs will be compatible with the vast majority of digital media devices and mobile phones including Apple's popular iPod as well as its iPhone according to Reuters

Most songs on the service will be available for 99 cents each and $9.95 an album.

Napster's special promotion for the Zen V MP3 Player is right here too if you want to win just join in!

Watch HBO movies on your Apple iPod

HBO episodes from "Sex and the City," "The Wire" and "Flight of the Conchords" will cost $1.99 per episode, the iTunes standard price for individual TV shows. But other shows - "The Sopranos," "Deadwood" and " Rome " - will command premium prices of $2.99 per episode.


The iTunes store, which offers downloads of 800 TV shows, has so far sold 150 million episodes.


Visit the Apple iTune store now

The New Lenovo Ultrathin ThinkPad X300 Laptop To Challenge Apple's MacBook Air

Lenovo today launched the much-anticipated ThinkPad X300 ultraportable, challenging Apple's MacBook Air (read a Marketing Critic's Review of MacBook Air) as the lightest and thinnest notebook available today, as announced on PCWorld.com

Weighing started at 2.93 pounds. Lenovo claims ThinkPad X300 is more feature-rich than Apple's 3-pound MacBook Air. Lenovo has included three USB drives and an ultrathin DVD burner, while MacBook Air has only one USB drive and no optical drive. With a DVD-RW drive, the X300 weighs 3.13 pounds, Lenovo said.

The laptop measures 0.73 inches at its thinnest point by 0.92 inches at its thickest point, bigger in comparison to MacBook Air, which measures 0.16 inches at its thinnest part and 0.76 inches at its thickest part.

Targeted at business users and consumers, the laptop uses 25 percent less power than previous ThinkPad models with a 64G-byte solid-state storage drive for data storage, a 13.3-inch LED-backlit display and use of a lithium-polymer battery, Lenovo said.

The lithium-polymer chemistry provides better battery life than standard lithium-ion batteries found in most laptops today, said Tom Ribble, director of Thinkpad product marketing at Lenovo. The system supports up to 4G bytes of memory and includes integrated graphics, a digital camera, and wired and wireless networking. It includes both touchpad and trackpoint scrolling capabilities.

The system will come with WiMax capabilities later this year with Intel's updated Centrino platform, according to Lenovo. The buyer may choose that the machine come preloaded either with Windows XP Professional or Windows Vista.
The ThinkPad 300's Processor

The X300 is powered by Intel's Core 2 Duo SL7100 LV low-voltage chip, operating at 1.2GHz. Like the Core 2 Duo processor specially developed for Apple's MacBook Air, Intel shrunk the SL7100 LV processor to make it 60 percent smaller than standard-sized processors belonging to Intel's Merom family. The chip is manufactured using the 65-nanometer process, like other Merom processors.

Although the size is the same, the SL7100 LV chip consumes less power. It uses 12 watts of power, according to processor details provided by Intel. The Core 2 Duo processor for MacBook Air uses 20 watts of power, while operating at 1.6GHz to 1.8GHz. Fujitsu also uses the SL7100 LV chip in its ultraportable LifeBook P8010 laptop, which started shipping in the U.S. this month.

Lenovo has pumped the latest technology into its laptop that both consumers and business users will appreciate, Ribble said.

Prices for the X300 start at $2,799, and it is available through Lenovo's Web site and through retail partners.

(image from Slashgear.com; article via PC World)