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Fire causes global laptop battery shortage

admin @ March 27, 2008 # No Comment Yet

A recent fire at a major South Korean manufacturing plant has led to a worldwide shortage of laptop batteries.
The fire occurred at LG Chem’s Orchag plant at the beginning of March. [...]

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MacBook Air X-rays different to other laptops

admin @ March 26, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Specialist security experts are claiming that a MacBook Air does look very different to most other laptops or DVD players when put through an X-ray machine.
This perhaps explains recent [...]

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Asus Eee PC gets touchscreen and GPS

admin @ March 26, 2008 # No Comment Yet

TechRadar is a big fan of Asus’ Eee PC, so we welcome today’s news that the second generation is set to feature the new 8.9-inch touchscreen display and, possibly, full GPS support.
The new version Eee with an 8.9-inch screen, in 8 [...]

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Laptop storage gets faster, bigger

admin @ March 25, 2008 # No Comment Yet

We’ve seen bigger laptop hard drives than Fujitsu’s latest MHZ2 BJ series – Samsung has announced a 500GB model, for example – but nothing quite matches it for the [...]

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Acer’s trend-setting Blu-ray notebooks

admin @ March 21, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Acer has announced a new line of Gemstone Blue notebooks aimed at home entertainment. Almost all the new £799-£1,399 models feature Blu-ray disc drives in addition to 4GB of memory and Nvdia 9500M GS or 9650M GS graphics.
These are Full HD 16:9 notebooks and that means Acer has had to launch some new screen sizes: [...]

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Intel Classmate to go on sale in Europe & US

admin @ March 20, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Although it was introduced primarily as a rival to the OLPC XO laptop, Intel’s [...]

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Two-thirds of Eee laptops to be Windows-based

admin @ March 16, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Asus’ chairman Jonney Shih has said that he expects the majority of his company’s much coveted sub-notebook to ship with Windows XP during 2008.
“About 60 percent of them will have Windows XP operating system,” Mr Shih told a new conference.
Reuters reports that Asus is sticking to its target of shipping five million Eee units in [...]

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Are Apple’s MacBook Airs overheating?

admin @ March 15, 2008 # No Comment Yet

It’s the fashionista’s laptop of choice, but is the MacBook Air suffering from overheating problems?
Apple released a fix for the MacBook Air’s fan earlier this week – “SMC Update 1.0 …fine-tunes the speed and operation of the internal fan” – following on from complaints from a number of users that their ultra-fashionable skinny new laptops [...]

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Is it too easy to lose the MacBook Air?

admin @ March 14, 2008 # No Comment Yet

We all know that the Apple MacBook Air is paper-thin, but we’re staggered to explain how someone can actually lose one – it is after all a £1,200 computer. [...]

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Hands on: SanDisk Flashback notebook adapter

admin @ March 13, 2008 # No Comment Yet

A computing show like CeBIT will never be a staging ground for the launch of massively exciting consumer products. But it is a place where many low-key innovations first [...]

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