Tulip Offers Notebook for €283 Thousand --- TheThirdMedia Hardware

Tulip Computers, a maker of computers from The Netherlands, unveiled its new Tulip E-Go series of mobile computers based on AMD Turion 64 microprocessors targeting audience more interested in design of the notebooks rather than their technology aspects. The most expensive computer will cost €283 thousand, which will place it in line with the world's most expensive digital gadgets.

AMD Turion 64 Powers Luxury Notebooks

Tulip's new E-Go notebooks will be powered by AMD Turion 64 MT-series processor, ATI RADEON XPRESS 200 chipset with RADEON X300-like graphics core, up to 1GB of memory and 100GB hard disk drive. The laptops will come with 12.1?widescreen 1280x800 display. The innovative E-Go product series will be equipped with a rich set of multimedia accessories, including high definition audio, webcam, DVD-RW optical drive, universal card reader and other devices.

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The manufacturer says the notebook would be able to operate up to 4 hours on battery, but Tulip does not note how much the E-Go machine would weigh.

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The design of the Tulip E-Go notebooks mainly aims young women who use mobile computers, but want to demonstrate their unique style and taste. Tulip E-Go notebooks will be available in numerous variations of leather cover with different patterns, all of them very lively, and one with cover inlaid with diamonds. The outlook of the Tulip E-Go was developed in collaboration with Marcel van Galen Design as well as jewelry designer Laurent de Beer.

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The most luxurious among Tulip E-Go notebooks is inlaid with solid palladium white gold plates in which thousands of brilliant cut diamonds have been set. The brilliant cut diamonds are microscopic and pave set with surgical precision. A unique square cut ruby has been set in both Tulip logos. For this kind of technology customers will have to pay rather unprecedented price of €283 thousand. Pricing of typical E-Go notebooks is unclear.

Vertu Brings Pink Phone

In the meantime, Vertu, a manufacturer of deluxe cell phones, unveiled Vertu Ascent Pink phone also aiming fashionable women. The handset comes in beautifully embossed leather in crocodile print, has a strip of polished keys on the front of the phone and matching ceramic pillow. Soft pink backlighting adds a touch of femininity to the sapphire crystal screen while maintaining the bold styling of its second line of luxury phones Vertu Ascent.

The Vertu Ascent Pink is tri-band phone with Bluetooth and voice dialing capabilities, additional Vertu ring tones; it supports GPRS, multimedia messaging (MMS) and concatenated short messaging (SMS).

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The Vertu Ascent Pink contrasts the feel of soft, hand-stitched leather with hard, custom-developed Liquidmetal alloy ?a durable, scratch-resistant material with twice the hardness of stainless steel and two times more resilient than other metals, including titanium, according to the company.

The Vertu Ascent Pink has 240 individual components. The flat panel keypad alone contains over 150 different parts whose design is patented. Each key is manufactured by injecting a stainless steel mixture at high temperature and pressure into an oversize mould. As it cools, the key shrinks by 14% to produce the bevelled keypad design. The keys are then each set on two jewel bearings, to create the unique pivoting action and to guide each key's movement.

The new deluxe phone from Vertu will be available in Spring/Summer 2005 season for approximately €4500.



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