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The latest notebook coming from NEC is touting a new green feature, the VersaPro notebook lineup has just had the Type VE series added. The notebook will feature a 15.1-inch display with a 1280 x 800 resolution, 80GB hard drive, 1GB of RAM and is powered by a 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T7250 processor. As for its green features, those are limited to a special “Eco Button” that will, when pushed lower the CPU speed and screen brightness, which will in turn decrease the overall energy consumption by 20 percent. While the Type VE series is not as green as many may have hoped, its still a nice option for users to get a little extra battery life.

Via [Akihabara News]

As usual, when it comes to getting new computing machines, our friends from Japan are again ahead of all of us. Our Japanese buddies will have the chance to be the first one to get hold, feel and test the spanking new and ruggedly handsome NEC tablet PC, which is appropriately branded as the ShieldPro FC-N22A. From its name alone, you can immediately deduce that this machine was built for the purpose of sustaining the most severe environmental conditions. True enough, the ShieldPro tablet PC can withstand temperature range of -4 F to 122 F, can sustain falling up to about 35-inches without breaking apart, is dust proof and complies to IP55 requirement for being water proof.

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NEC has introduced a new a 22.5-inch TFT LCD to its product line. The 22.5-inch LCD sports a WUXGA resolution with full high-definition 1920 x 1080 resolution, a high luminance of 460 cd/m2, a 97% wide color gamut (NTSC ratio) and a double frame rate of 120 Hertz. The new 22.5-inch model boasts of an excellent picture quality which is geared for preview monitoring and verification commonly used in broadcast stations and post-production studios. Additionally, the 22.5-inch NEC LCD has an anti-glare polarizer surface,12 CCFLs backlight and a built-in inverter.

Together with the 22.5-inch LCD, NEC also released a new 19-inch TFT LCD. This time the 19-inch LCD boasts of a super extended graphics array (SXGA) resolution.

Both LCDs will be launched during the Display 2008 event on April 16-18, 2008 in Tokyo Japan. A US launch will follow on May 20-22 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Hopefully by then, NEC would have already come up with pricing details for both models.

Read [NEC] Via [Far East Gizmos]

Starting in January 2006, NEC will begin selling a new line of all-in-one devices under the ValueStar name. Combining an HDTV display with a Windows Media Center-powered PC, the hi def Valuestar models will use their built-in hard-drives for recording.

Price for these models will start at €2400 (about $2,900 US).

Read [Engadget]