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Asus’ Ultra Portable U5F Notebook

Features: This Intel Centrino Duo Mobile Technology notebook has an Intel Duo Core Processor T2300/2400/2500/2600 Sequence (1.60-2.13 GHz, 533 MHz, 2 MB L2 Cache), a Mobile Intel 945 GM Express Chipset; Intel PRO/Wireless 2915 ABG Network Connection, 512 MB DDRII 533/667 MHz memory on board (up to 1536 MB), a 12.1” XGA LCD screen, DVD Super Multi, 60/80 GB 5400 rpm hard drive, and Microsoft Windows XP Professional. It weighs about 1.4 kg. Bluetooth V2.0+EDR (Enhanced Data Rate) supports omni-directional wireless connection and enables a data transfer rate of 2.1 Mbps. The U5 Series complies with Directive 2002/95/EC, which requires the substitution of heavy metals (lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium) and brominated flame-retardants in electric and electronic equipment.

Price: Rs 79,999 + taxes
Contact: Apratim Sharma
Telephone: 98927 56755
E-mail: media_india@asus.com
Website: in.asus.com

Xerox’s DocuColor 5000 digital press

Features: The DocuColor 5000 is a digital press that can print up to 3,000 full process colour A4 4/0 impressions per hour. With a print speed of 50 ppm for A4, it supports 2,400x2, 400 dpi resolution. The DocuColor 5000 is compatible with three different colour servers including Xerox FreeFlow DocuSP, EFI Fiery and Creo Spire.

The Digital WorkFlow Collection for DocuColor 5000 offers book printing, personalised communications, print on demand and promotional transaction solutions.

Price: Approx. Rs 80 lakh
Contact: Gitanjali Puri
Telephone: 012 4256 1930, extn. 4562
E-mail: gitanjali.puri@xerox.com
Website: xerox.com

Sony’s BWU-100A Blu-ray burner

Features: This Blu-ray burner can write up to 50 GB of data on BD-R (write once) or BD-RE (rewritable) discs, or up to four hours of video using HDV 1080i on a BD-RE 50 GB disc. It supports recording of standard single layer 4.7 GB DVD ±R/±RW/RAM discs, 8.5 GB DVD±R Double/Dual Layer discs, and CDs.

Commercial Blu-ray movies can be viewed using this drive on computers that incorporate an HDCP-compliant graphics card offering DVI or HDMI connections, HDCP-compliant computer display, and software that supports BD-ROM playback. 

The BWU-100A drive comes bundled with the CyberLink BD Solution from CyberLink Corporation, which provides a software application for capturing, authoring, editing and burning personal content captured by an HDV 1080i format camcorder onto BD discs. Video can also be down-converted for burning onto DVDs. The internal drive features an IDE (ATA/ATAPI) interface, and comes in a standard 5.25-inch form factor.

Price: Rs 44,300
Contact: Navinder Singh Chauhan
Telephone: 22 6709 0810
E-mail: navinderc@rptechindia.com
Website: rptechindia.com

ECS’ KN3 SLI2 motherboard

Features: This motherboard supports AMD AM2 Energy Efficient microprocessors, Athlon FX, Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core, Athlon 64 and Sempron CPUs. It comes with an NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI chipset for dual full-bandwidth PCI-Express GPU support. It supports dual channel DDR2-533, 667 and 800 MHz memory.

The board is aimed at people who intend to put together gaming or digital media PCs.

ECS’ Scalable DGE (Dual Graphic Engines) architecture uses NVIDIA SLI technology by enabling two SLI graphics cards to work together for improved performance. It also supports simultaneous display on up to four devices.

Overclocking is possible (Instant Overclocking Controller). Other features include a Realtek ALC883 audio codec for 8-channel HD audio, and I/O features including 6x SATA II 3.0 Gbps, USB 2.0, Dual Gigabit Ethernet, RAID 5 support, 2 x S/PDIF (Optical and Coaxial), and 2 x 1394a.

Price: Rs 8,500
Contact: Rakesh Kumar
Telephone: 11 5162 9997 & 93501 35182
E-mail: delhi@cyberstarindia.com & rakesh@cyberstarindia.com
Website: cyberstarindia.com