TECHNOLOGY - The BEST Of 2009

Netbooks: Toshiba mini NB 205 and HP Mini 311

If you're going to be staring at a 10-inch screen for hours on end you deserve a design that doesn't feel claustrophobic, and the 3-pound NB205 delivers with the biggest touchpad in its class and a spacious chiclet-style keyboard. Toshiba impresses with its best-in-class touchpad,excellent keyboard,spacious 250GB hard disk driver,full-workday, capable 9-hour battery life and classy appearance.On the other hand,The HP mini weighs in with its admirable performance in handling not just high-definition video super smoothly-nay,beautifully- on its 11.6 inch screen,but also processor-muscle snapping games like World of Warcraft without wincing because of its Nvidia Ion aided graphics capabilities.

Camcorder:Flip MinoHD

When it comes to eminently pocketable camcorders,the MinoHD stands out by a whisker.Capable of very good quality 720p video for a device this diminutive(116 grammes,1.97*0.66*3.94 inches),this super-sleek and stylish ultracompact camera is easy enough for even our grandmum to operate.It features a bright 2-inch TFT active matrix LCD display,8GB memory,a builtin condenser mono micro-phone,an onboard speaker,and USB as well as HDMI connectors.Further,an in-camera editing feature makes it possible to snip away at what the focus-free 35mm,F/2.4 aperture lens captures without hooking it up to a PC or Mac.

OS: Window 7

It has faster resumes(from sleep mode),faster shutdowns and even faster recovery from crashers.Battery life on laptops and netbooks is much more ameliorated. It enchances productivity by improving on its intuitiveness, ease of use and connectivity.Unlike Vista, Windows 7 can run comfortably on everything from low-end 1GB RAM netbooks and beyond.

Laptop:MacBook Pro The world’s greenest lineup of notebooks.Highly recyclable and even more energy efficient, the new MacBook Pro family is designed with the environment in mind.

Lighter (at 2.9 kgs), thinner(at 0.98 inches),faster, and more environmentally-friends than other an amazing 8 hours of battery life on a single charge.Powered by a 3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 6MB on-chip shared L2 cache running 1:1 with processor speed, the notebook is hewed out of single blocks of aluminium (called "unibody").It supports up to 8GB of 1066MHz DDR3 memory, and comes with a 500GB hard drive.Th 17-inch LED-backlit glossy widescreen 1,680-by-1,050 display is driven by an NVIDIA GeForce 9400M integrated graphics processor.