The W5Fe is the first dual screen notebook that belongs to the "Newport" series. Asus W5x notebooks have suffered another transformation. They've been around for quite some time now, featuring Pentium-M processors (W5A) while the W5F brought things up to date with the Core Duo processor. As for the new 12.1'' notebook model lineup, W5Fe incorporates a second display on its LCD lid as a part of Intel's original "Newport" initiative, shows Cnet.

The system which is now featured in Windows Vista as "Windows Sideshow" was developed by PortalPlayer. They've made claims that "it can run for hundreds of hours without draining your notebook battery." It sounds like promising technology indeed, but the costs to implement this technology in notebooks can't be cheap, said Dailytech.

According to PortalPlayer's website, the following features are available while your laptop is turned off or in hibernation mode:
Relevant information at your fingertips;
Intelligent organization with access to calendars, e-mails, addresses, travel itineraries, movie show; times, alerts and more;
The ability to play games, enjoy music, and share pictures;
Longer battery life for improved productivity;
A way to personalize your notebook, making it uniquely yours;

Prototypes of this technology were displayed at CES 2006 in Las Vegas, but with the impending release of Windows Vista, it looks as though we may be seeing more of these notebooks entering production. And it also seems that this technology will not be available if you choose to install another OS.