L International Computers Inc. , manufacturer of high-performance computers and personal/business technologies, announced today plans for its next generation high-end laptops.

Some quotes from the press-release published by BusinessWire: “new laptops are based on Intel’s Quad -Core Processors and featuring all-round PCI-Xpress bus architecture, Liebermann showed off concept PC designs featuring design approaches to soon be integrated in its upcoming portable computing product line. The new blueprints, include the first keyboardless series laptop machines, replaced with a large secondary full-color and fully programmable high-resolution touch screen OLED display.

Users can switch on the fly any language or layout on the keyboard as well as precision-controlling parameters such as keystroke key speed and pressure. Equally, the displays can be instantly changed to gaming mode as virtual joysticks or any specific application such as music composition or video editing where the whole keyboard area can be programmed and called upon any specific application with customized controllers. OLED-based virtual keyboards can be reconfigured as needed as a programmable high-resolution multi-function flat-panels.

Aside from next-generation PuRAM Solid State Drive Technologies largely improved in I/O and transfer speeds allied to record breaking low power consumption figures and extended long-term reliability, the new laptops may equally also feature new power sources like hot-swappable fuel cell batteries based on both hydrogen or methanol designs, providing up to 24 hours of continuing power and indefinite runs without any need for direct electrical recharging.

Fuel cells work by combining the fuel with oxygen from the air and using the energy liberated to drive an electrical current. The fuel cell contains a polymer-based “proton exchange membrane” sandwiched between an anode and cathode layer, each containing a platinum catalyst. Hydrogen travels to the anode through a polymer block bored with channels 500 micrometers wide. At the anode, the platinum helps break the hydrogen down into protons and electrons. The protons cross the membrane and react with oxygen and electrons from the cathode, and this drives the electrons left at the anode around an electrical circuit to the cathode. The only byproduct of a hydrogen fuel cell is water vapor.”

This entry was posted on October 18, 2006 and is filed under News.