Last week, while I attended HP/Vivienne Tam's fashion week events, I learned how to fix the previously reported HP Mini 1000 webcam issue. It turns out the real problem is a bit of film stuck to the inside of the screen, which blocks the webcam. It made my webcam look like it had a dark pair of sunglasses on.
A few months ago I started going to a young doctor in San Francisco who uses mobile technology to improve efficiency and accuracy. I blogged about my first visit, recorded a quick video and the good folks at BNet took notice. Thet published a video that shows Dr. John Selle's Tablet PC and notebooks in action. 
The latest MacBook Pro's battery life is low for soemthing with such a large battery. The MacBook Pro 17" battery is HUGE. 
Back in 2004 our notebook partners faced a tough problem – every notebook needed to be custom engineered for each GPU. That might not make a difference to consumers, who just buy complete notebooks with a GPU inside, but the problem with custom engineering is that it takes a lot more time and effort to bring a notebook to the market with the latest GPU.
I do a lot of hands-on research on smartphones. I do this for two reasons. First, I believe they are fast becoming one of the prevalent cloud clients, and second, they are fast becoming a popular device to consume video. AMD obviously is involved in building the cloud with the AMD Opteron Processors but also conversion to make a video smartphone-friendly can take a tremendous amount of compute power, and ATI Radeon HD 4800 series graphics and AMD Phenom II X4 processors do those conversions quite well.
Speck announced new colors for its SeeThru hard shell cases for the new unibody MacBook and 15-inch MacBook Pro. The new colors are hazard orange (limited edition), purple, aqua and green, which means you can choose from a total of seven colors to make your MacBook stand out.
I had the opportunity to hang out with Vivienne Tam and a group of female bloggers in New York during fashion week. On Wednesday night we went to Vivienne Tam's fall season preview at her boutique in SoHo. The Peony flower was her inspiration for her entire spring line, which extended all the way from her dresses to the Mini 1000 special edition that I'm blogging from this week.
Gateway announced a new line of 14-inch notebooks that borrow design cues and features from the company's MC series and MD series notebooks. They have a splash of style compared to Gateway's older 14-inch models and will start at $649.99. 
I'd like to extend a warm welcome to George Ou, who will be blogging here at Notebooks.com from time to time. He is the founder of ForMortals.com and a senior analyst at ITIF.org, a think tank based out of Washington D.C. He recently served as technical director and editor at large for TechRepublic and ZDNet, where he published the Real World IT blog. 
It's hard to believe that just over one year ago, netbooks were a brand new class of laptops meant for the developing world. Its creators grossly undermined the public's appetite for cheap and portable computers and one year later, netbooks became the fastest growing segment in the market while every other market suffered painful losses in the brutal economy. 
I've been using the HP Mini 1000 Vivienne Tam Edition for the past month and generally have had a great experience. There have been some instances where I've needed to use the webcam and found it to be less than satisfactory. 
I'm a big fan of the HP Mini 1000 and it earned our first Editor's Choice award, but the quality of its built-in webcam is a weak point. The Mini 2140 has a similarly spec'd webcam, but it delivers a dramatically better image than the one found in the Mini 1000. 
If you're tired of all the hassles of emailing drafts back and forth you should out DocVerse's new solution. DocVerse makes Microsoft Office act more like a web application, enabling instant sharing and collaboration. The company's given us 50 Beta Invites if you want to give the service a spin. Read on to see how it works.