The LED backlight also boasts of better luminance, faster response time and lower power consumption than the traditional LCD, and combined with some fancy ASUS Power4 Gear eXtreme power management should have battery life up 20-25 percent over traditional laptops.

ENGADGET: ASUS gets official with its LED-backlit U1F lappy

Apple Computer (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) earlier this year jumped on the 802.11g bandwagon for its Airport Extreme line of wireless networking gear--even though the IEEE hasn't completely finished cooking the standard yet.

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Options for the new machines will include Apple's new wireless-networking technology, Airport Extreme, which supports speeds of 54 megabits per second and is also backward-compatible with standard Wi-Fi gear.

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