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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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: [...]
admin @ March 20, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Although it was introduced primarily as a rival to the OLPC XO laptop, Intel’s [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]