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Apr 22, 2011

Fujitsu LifeBook Replace Optical Drives With Projectors

Optical disc drives may be passé nowadays, but the enclosures usually reserved for them in laptops need not go to waste. Fujitsu has just rolled out its latest line of portables and a pair of them pack a pretty awesome new extra: an integrated pico projector. The 13.3-inch LifeBook S761/C and 12.1-inch P771/C both fill their ODD slots with a small visualizer, and while the specs of its actual output aren't clear, the two machines have been fully specced and priced. 

The S761/C can offer you a Core i5-2520M CPU, a (presumably upgradeable) 1GB of RAM, 160GB of storage, and a 1366 x 768 resolution for a price of ¥219,450 ($2,675). Moving down in size class but up in price, the P771/C matches those specs, but for a squarer 1280 x 800 resolution, and asks for ¥255,150 ($3,110). Both will be available in Japan in mid-May, which is also when Fujitsu will release its LifeBook E741/C, whose claim to fame is the ability to authe 
 nticate users by reading the veins in their palms. 

8 comments:

Alphalpha said...

That's pretty damn sweet, I think I'd prefer a cd drive, but thats still awesome

-E- said...

optical drives are about to be obsolete anyway.

Grafted said...

Cool

Zombie said...

Flipping sweet!!

Keine Scheisse said...

That's good news. I hardly ever use my laptop's optical drive. I wish I could have one of those

Bart said...

i should probly pic one of these up. i still have the old skool cd players

SmartDroids said...

Interesting, thanks for info sis :)

DFP said...

One day there'll be no screens, or not.