New BENQ Joybook S57

BENQ just rolled out the brand-new HD-ready Joybook S57 15-inch notebook.

The S57

 17-inch is too big for you? You can’t help feeling the blues of having to carry it around for those cross-country trips? No problem, 15-inch is here. The new 15.6-inch BENQ S57 might not revolutionaries the notebook market, but will make lot of multimedia enthusiasts happy.

The HD-ready notebook comes with Trusound HD, and 8ms response time – which should make watching the HD movies all the more interesting. The 15.6-inch 16:9 LED-backlit panel has a resolution of 1366 x 768. It is powered by an Intel Centrino 2 processor and next-generation ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4650 GPU. You can also enjoy Direct X 10.1 games on the S57.

The Joybook sure looks good with the blackened liquid dark exterior and a pearl-white inside. It packs multimedia features like 8X DVD Super-Multi optical disc drive or 2X Blue-ray DVD combo; the latter featuring the added convenience of DVD and CD read/write functions. The 500GB hard disc space should provide enough space for your audio and video library. Connectivity is taken care by  802.11a/b/g/n WLAN card, eSATA high-speed data connector, ExpressCard slot, 4-in-1 card reader, and optional Bluetooth 2.1 support.

This piece will be available from March 9 in Australia, Thailand and Malaysia. No pricing of the S57 is known yet.