Lenovo goes on with new displays and this time we have a chance to see new environmentally friendly low power consumption models ThinkVision L174 and L197 Wide. New models are designed by reducing the number of bulbs used in the system from four to two, while adding new brightness enhancement films to ensure greater operating performance. TUV Rheinland, German product testing and certification company, has verified the ThinkVision L174 and L197 Wide consume between 25 and 35 percent less electricity than any prior generation ThinkVision monitors. Expected to hit the stores somewhere by the end of April with $239.99 for L174 and $259.99 for L197.

ComputerBase.de has revealed AMD’s notebook processor roadmap for 2008. The list has four “Griffin” based chips, a codename for laptop processors a part of the upcoming “Puma” notebook platform. The roadmap shows AMD Turion 64 Ultra and AMD Turion 64 dual core models, with 2MB and 1MB of L2 cache, with support for DDR2 800MHz memory and have clock speeds ranging from 2GHz to 2.4GHz and power consumption between 32 and 35 Watts. Also there is single core Athon 64 chip with 1MB of L2 cache, DDR2 667MHz support, a speed starting from 1.9GHz, and a power consumption of 31 Watt. The AMD Sempron “Sable”, a lower-end “Griffin” chip, features single core, 512KB of L2 cache, a 25W power consumption, and a clock speed starting from 2GHz. Along with the new processors, “Puma” platform will have the RS780 mobile chipset with the DirectX 10 ready HD3200 integrated graphics and the Unified Video Decoder technology. The company has announced that the new laptop line will start shipping at the end of the Q2 of 2008.

In today’s crowded PMP market probably nobody thinks about world’s first MP3 player, MPMan F10 that today turns 10 years. Korean Saehan Information Systems launched in March 1998 at CeBIT and went on sale in the summer for $250 price tag. MPMan F10 featured 32MB of flash memory and connected to PC via parallel port. Measured 91 x 70 x 165.5mm this was quite big product comparing to today models. Miniature LCD display showed just main playback info. Next on the stage was Rio’s PMP300 but MPMan F10 will be remembered as the first commercially released personal music player capable of handling MP3 files.