
Laptops are surely gadgeeters' old and the best friends. No matter what happens, a laptop or a netbook is preferred to anything else for a first gadget or the only gadget of choice. So what about getting a good thing in darn cheap price? Yes you can. Gadgetophilia has not only considered the laptops that suit you the best but also this segment is specially for the models that come under $500. So if you are to buy a good laptop but short of some pocket money to buy exactly something like a Macbook Pro, here are some which can be pretty useful.Here is another folding laptop concept and this is very interesting because you might turn into a PDA or a mobile phone. The Flexi PDA is waterproof when folded up and it features some very cool flexible screen technology. This folding laptop concept is perfect for outdoors applications but I’m not sure how it can turn into a mobile phone.Mr Ben Heckendorn is a genius. This man has made some of the coolest of the cool hacks you have ever seen in your life! This is pretty cool, this is absolutely awesome! He has gone through all current video game consoles and turned them into pretty cool laptops. Thats right, not just X-box 360, not just Nintendo Wii, but he has just recently finished his Playstation 3 modification.Don’t believe that it is possible to hack a Play station 3 into a laptop, have a look at this pretty cool video of it in action!These pretty cool video game consoles, and really cool custom laptops are definitely a must have. There is nothing cooler than portable Playstation on a laptop.Panasonic has recently released two new cool laptops that belong in the tough category, they are code named CF-30 and CF-19. The important detail of Toughbooks is the protection that it offers and therefore the extended durability that it can achieve, it can support a lot of damage that other laptops can’t and passed some interesting tests, such as:
* 26 drops from a height of 36 inches – and it still worked after all the strikes
* vibration tests to use the laptop on ground vehicles (read big car)
* water resistance – you can drop water on the keyboard and it will continue to work
* high and low temperature tests
* dust and altitude resistance
Ok, so after the small intro on the Panasonic Toughbook series I’m happy to reveal the 2 new products which consists of a convertible Tablet PC a.k.a. CF-19; and a clamshell notebook a.k.a. CF-30. Both have a great “cover protection” that actually is a magnesium alloy case. There are better laptops out there in terms of performance, but in terms of “protection” these two are probably the best ones.Anyway, inside they feature the latest Intel Core Duo processors and a 80GB hard-drive that can work in awful conditions, like when the vibration gets worse while you are on a plane or on a car trip. In the RAM memory department, it comes with a standard of 512MB but this can be expanded to 4GB. Other cool features include the four wireless options that both devices offer: WLAN, WWAN, GPS, bluetooth; and being “backwardly compatible” meaning that old accessories still work with the freshly launched notebooks.







