admin @ July 28, 2008 # No Comment Yet
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 9, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Qualcomm displayed a 3G, $299 mini-laptop today made by Inventec that is supposedly designed to run Windows Mobile 7 in the future (it runs Linux now). Windows Mobile 7, which supports Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chipset, will in turn make the company more competitive in the mini-laptop space processor that’s currently being dominated by Intel, AMD and [...]
admin @ June 15, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The laptop market has been absolutely turned on its head in the last 12 months.
It used to be all about how much power you could fit into a small form factor.
And yet, in the year that Alienware has unleashed its frighteningly quick Area-51 m15x gaming laptop, all anyone wants to talk about is the latest [...]
admin @ May 14, 2008 # One Comment
While laptops are often looked at as being solely designed for portability, this can sometimes be far from the truth. With many laptops striving for performance to match larger desktop PCs, battery life can often take a backseat in the pursuit of raw power.
Thankfully, it’s still possible to find a great combination of performance and [...]
admin @ May 14, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Samsung could pull out of the laptop market if it fails to gain over three times its current share of the worldwide notebook market. The revelation came during a Samsung presentation to TechRadar at its HQ in Suwon City.
When asked whether the required 11 million global sales in 2011 was possible for Samsung to achieve, [...]
admin @ May 9, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Dell laptops are dull. If you’re after something relatively lightweight but feature-packed, you’re not likely to go for one. But some leaked pics and specs have emerged on Engadget – and we can’t wait to see the real deal.
The Inspiron 1535 and 1735 models appear to be debuting late this month and early next, so [...]
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 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 6, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Apple and Dell are planning to release notebooks later this year that offer Blu-ray drives, according to [...]
admin @ January 27, 2008 # No Comment Yet
After its Hello Kitty Special Edition laptop, you’d think NEC had nothing else up its sleeve, but they’re back—in black. The newest laptop in its stable is the LaVie G Type J Black Limited Edition with 12.1-inch LCD. Weighing in at just 35 ounces, it comes with a battery that promises to last for 6 [...]