Zoostorm Fizzbook Spin touchscreen laptop

April 14, 2009 – 3:12 pm

The Zoostorm Fizzbook Spin is a student friendly touchscreen laptop which can be used in conventional laptop mode or the screen can be swiveled and folded to create a tablet. In tablet mode the Fizzbook Spin can accept input from both fingers or a stylus.

Fizzbook Spin

This laptop has been designed with students and indeed kids in mind, it is drop tested to 50cm and has a tough outer case to protect from accidental damage and rough handling. The Fizzbook Spin also comes with student friendly software in the shape of the Intel Learning Series and Smart Classroom Suite software.

Spec-wise it has a 1.6Ghz Intel Atom processor, 1GB of RAM and a 60GB hard drive as standard, not stunningly high spec but for running academic type apps on an XP OS its more than enough. The screen is a small but decent 8.9″ and the whole unit weighs just 1.35kg.

Available from around £370 in the UK the Fizzbook Spin is perfect for homework.


Asus Eee PC T91

April 13, 2009 – 9:08 am

Asus news from CeBit includes the imminent arrival of the Asus Eee PCT T91 which is a small 8.9″ touchscreen laptop that looks damn tasty.

The T91 is a laptop with a touchscreen in the conventional laptop mode but the screen can swivel and twist to turn the T91 into a touchscreen tablet. Being a small Netbook size laptop it will weigh in at under a kilo making it extremely mobile and offer 5 hours of battery life for longer access whilst out and about.

Asus T91

Special features include WiFi, Bluetooth, built-in GPS with the unexpected bonus of built-in TV & FM tuners. To ensure that the touchscreen interface works well Asus have added in their own Touchsuite software which we understand will include some pretty cool apps for photos and memos.

The T91 will be available soon and the word on the street is that there will be a slightly bigger brother, the T101 which will have a larger 10″ screen.

Asus once again seem to be propelling themselves to the front of the market with innovation and bold moves, long may it continue.