Archive for June, 2009
Hands on: NVIDIA Tegra Netbooks
Our friends from netbooknews.com are at Computex in Taipei this week and spent some time checking out some netbooks powered by NVIDIA’s Tegra technology.
Windows 7 Launch Date Set: October 22, 2009
Microsoft’s confirmed the launch date of Windows 7. Retailers will begin selling copies of the new operating systems on October 22. The company also confirmed that it will offer free or discounted copies of Windows 7 to customers who purchase notebooks with Windows Vista, but details haven’t been announced.
Smartbook Design Concepts
Freescale partnered with the Savannah College of Art and Design to come up with new mobile computing design concepts. These “smartbook” designs aren’t your typical notebooks as you can see in the attached photo gallery.
Acer Releases New Line Of All-Day Notebooks
Acer’s upcoming Aspire Timeline brand of notebook computers will combine performance with long battery life. The Timeline notebooks will come in three iterations with each providing a blend of performance and extended run time. A 13.3″ model dubbed AS3810T is the most expensive model, checking in at $899.99 while running Intel’s Core 2 Duo SU9400 (1.4GHz). Due to the small screen, it provides a whopping 9 hours of battery life.
Intel Announces New Mobile Processors At Computex
Intel is busy at Computex 2009, where it will be announcing new processors for mobile and laptop computing. There are four new models coming, with the T9900 as the flagship model, pushing above 3GHz processor speeds. The P9700 and P8800 increases performance with large amounts of high speed cache memory. The SU2700 is geared towards the ultra-portable market and will be used in the new thin and light notebooks, which Intel expects to be the big sellers in 2009. Additionally, Intel plans on releasing a new chipset dubbed GS40 to maximize performance from these new processors.
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Viliv S5 Unboxing Photos
We bought several Viliv S5s for an upcoming project and I’ve really enjoyed using one for the past few days. I snapped some photos as I unboxed one of these Mobile Internet Devices and put together a quick photo gallery.
Joanna Stern Goes Hands-on with MSI X400 and X600
Laptop Mag’s Joanna Stern gets some one on one time with the MSI X-series family and shows us a brief overview of the expanded lineup that includes the X340 we’ve already seen along with the yet to be released X400 and X600. The X400 sports a larger 14″ screen and the X600 displays 16″ of screen real estate. The X-series will all come with Intel’s new ULV Core 2 Solo processors and the X600 will come with an ATI 430 discrete graphics cards.
Searching for “GM Bankruptcy” News
GM is going bankrupt today and like a lot of people I’m searching for info about what’s going on. If you haven’t heard by now, GM is going to announce one of the largest bankruptcies in U.S. history and it will impact just about everyone in one way or another. I’m using this opportunity to [...]
