June 18, 2010

Apple Unveils Wireless Magic Mouse


Apple has introduced the new wireless Magic Mouse, which is the first mouse with the Apple’s revolutionary Multi-Touch technology. The mouse has a seamless multi-touch surface that will allow you to navigate smoothly just by using the intuitive finger gestures.

Here are some striking features of the Magic Mouse:

  • It is a single or multi-button mouse with seamless touch-sensitive enclosure and advanced gesture support.
  • Scrolling through long documents, large images or just moving forward and backward through a large collection of images is easier with the Magic Mouse.
  • Both left and right hand users can use the mouse by easily configuring the commands in System Preferences.
  • The mouse has laser tracking engine, which gives a smooth and consistent experience on any surface type.
  • Magic Mouse has Bluetooth wireless feature that means a cable-free desktop and easy working.
  • The secure wireless connection of the mouse can work from up to 10 meters away.
  • It has an extended battery performance and an advanced power management system that works with Mac OS X and automatically switches to lower power modes during inactive period.
  • The mouse is powered by two AA batteries that come along with it.
  • The mouse requires Mac OS X Leopard version 10.5.8 or later.

The Magic Mouse comes standard with new iMac and will be available through Apple Authorized Resellers by the end of October at a maximum retail price of Rs. 3,890.

ASUS Eee Pad & Eee Tablet get announced ahead of COMPUTEX 2010


Just ahead of COMPUTEX 2010 starting tomorrow, June 1st, we have some straight-forward iPad ompetitors appearance to discuss. These are ASUS Eee Pad and ASUS Eee Tablet. The Eee Pad model number EP121 is a 12-inch full-on Windows 7 Home Premium touch sensitive device with Intel Core 2 Duo CULV doing all the processing. It also has a webcam, a couple of connectivity ports I suppose and a dockable physical keyboard. Battery on this one will be going on for 10 hours. 10-inch Eee Pad EP101TC on the other hand runs Windows Embedded Compact 7 so it can very well have less processing power and longer battery life. Anyway, prices on both fit in $Rs.19950 - Rs.24950 range.


There is also ASUS Eee Tablet coming out. Compared to the Pads above this one is much limited in functionality, but still has a 2 megapixel camera, touch sensitive 2450 dpi screen, Micro SD card reader, USB, 10h battery life, all the rest for a rich-featured e-book reader (I’d be careful calling Eee Tablet something else).