admin @ July 30, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The Gadget: The Moshi Zefyr, which is a collapsible USB-powered notebook cooler for the MacBook and MacBook Air (MacBook Pro version coming soon). The USB slot is pass-through, which lets you plug in another USB device so as to break even, and the whole thing can collapse into itself for easy transport.
The Price: $75 for [...]
admin @ July 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The Gadget: Kangaroom’s laptop stand and charging station, which offers a ventilated laptop stand as well as two phone/iPod holders so you can have a place to charge your gear without cluttering up your desk. It’s even tilted, since many laptop users enjoy typing at an angle.
The Price: $45
The Verdict: We’ve been fans of Kangaroom’s [...]
admin @ July 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Following the Wind’s success, and further advancing in the mini-laptop collective hysteria, Micro-Star International is planning a thinner version for business people, as well as a new, completely unknown smaller-than-a-mini-laptop mobile Internet device. According to Andy Tung, the business Wind will re-use the components of its predecessor, but focus on design:
On Intel’s roadmap, there won’t [...]
admin @ July 28, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Sometimes it’s nice to just sit and consider exactly why you don’t do so many of the things that you don’t do. (That’s why I don’t tie my nipples to doorknobs! Of course!) This is a useful exercise that the guy behind Portable Gaming Solutions has apparently never tried. As a result, he is offering [...]
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Not all the tech we buy needs to be brand new and manufactured specifically to fit our needs. With a little ingenuity and cheapness, you can rig up common household objects to do the job just as well. Here’s an example of such a thing, using a $6 hot water bottle as a laptop stand [...]
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Even though the XO Laptop’s Sugar-coated OS wasn’t exactly the most vaunted aspect of the attempted laptop-for-all, following Windows XP’s invasion of the project, former OLPC exec Walter Bender’s newly formed Sugar Labs is shopping Sugar around. They’re in talks with at least four “ultra low-cost” notebook makers who would use it for kid computers. [...]
admin @ July 27, 2008 # No Comment Yet
At OLPC’s Global Country workshop today, founder Nick Negroponte unveiled the next-gen XO Laptop, and it totally blows the original away. About half the XO 1.0’s size and more like a foldable book, it does away with the keyboard and trackpad to go totally touchscreen—that’s right, dual touchscreens, straight out of the future, like a [...]
admin @ July 15, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Check out the latest entrant in the UMPC race, the MSI Wind, which we missed at CeBIT earlier last week. Toting a 10-inch display, Intel Shelton’08 platform, with variable processor speeds from 1.0GHz – 1.6GHz; 2.5-inch HDD or SSD, 1GB RAM, a reported 7-hour battery life and running either Linux or Windows operating systems, it [...]
admin @ July 10, 2008 # No Comment Yet
LG’s XNOTE P300—if you discount the faux-tiger stripes, that is—is a 13.3-inch notebook with all sorts of lovely features, including an LED-backlit screen. Specs and sex(y ladies) below.
1280 x 800 resolution
Core 2 Duo CPU (2.4 GHz) T7500
2GB RAM
GeForce 8600M video card with 256MB VRAM
1.3-megapixel camera
WWAN
HDMI
1.6 kg
Price is around $2,785 — or its Korean equivalent.
admin @ July 10, 2008 # No Comment Yet
It’s not even out yet and people have already hacked Mac OS X to run on the MSI Wind. Like with other non-Apple Leopard boxes, the little computer believes it is a Mac Pro, which is OK because we all want to be Mac Pros when we grow up. This version is still lacking some [...]