Archive for February, 2010
Fujitsu LifeBook MH380 Review
Laptop Magazine was able to get its hands on the new Fujitsu LifeBook MH380, which is Fujitsu’s first Pinetrail (Atom N450) powered netbook and has posted a full review of the Lifebook MH380 online. While the first thing that Laptop Magazine notes is the beautiful design and color of the MH380, you’ll really want to pay [...]
Deal:Two limited Stackable Coupon Codes for HP Laptops
We just came to know about two stackable coupon code from HP which you can use to by custom configured notebooks. 15% off HP customized HP laptops: HPDirect.com is offering 15% off coupon code ‘NBS978841‘ for the purchase of customized HP Laptop configured at $1399 or greater. This coupon code is also valid for HP’s [...]
Nvidia Optimus- good use of SOA
Yesterday, nVidia announced their new nVidia Optimus technology. The idea of Optimus is to optimizes the mobile experience by letting the user get the performance of discrete graphics from a notebook, while still delivering great battery life. Optimus accomplishes this by automatically and seamlessly selecting the right graphics processor for the job between an [...]
Update to Windows 7 battery issue
Last week we covered the issue about Windows 7 users reporting their battery life has dropped from several hours to 30 minutes after upgrading to Windows 7. Microsoft has issued a statement about this issue on their MSDN blog: “To the very best of the collective ecosystem knowledge, Windows 7 is correctly warning batteries that are [...]
First Impressions of the Sony Vaio W – Green Netbook
At CES 2010 Sony announced the new Sony Vaio W netbook, which adds a green focus to the netbook and how it’s shipped. I’ve had the chance to use the Sony Vaio W series netbook for a week now and wanted to share my first impressions of the new green netbook. Overall I have found [...]
Intel App Up branching out to other platforms
The Intel App Up store and platform launched at CES 2010 this year is making news again. Nicole Scott from NetBook News did an interview with Scott Apeland, Director of Intel’s Developer Network from Intel. During this interview, the road map for the Intel App Up platform was revealed. The big news? After the netbook [...]
AMD’s Fusion Processor Could Challenge Intel’s Dominance
For the past several years Intel has been a market leader of processors thanks to performance and a good bit of marketing consumers, myself included, have opted for Intel powered computers. Things weren’t always this way, in fact back when I bought my first computer I remember insisting on AMD, and in the near future [...]
Apple store offline in wait for Macworld announcements
This week starts Macworld Expo in San Francisco. And with that, all the rumors and speculation about what is going to be discussed, especially since Apple will not be in attendance this year. What we do know is that the Apple store is currently offline this morning. What does this mean? Well, if the rumors [...]
Optimus Makes it Simple
Rene Haas is the General Manager of Notebooks at NVIDIA In the past, consumers were forced to prioritize notebook performance or battery life, as one feature typically suffers significantly in order to accommodate the other. You could have long battery life from an underpowered notebook, or all the GPU power you desired from a notebook [...]
Win a Lenovo IdeaPad s10-3t from Laptop Magazine
If you didn’t win the Lenovo s10-3t that Notebooks.com gave away in January I have great news! Laptop Magazine is giving away a Lenovo s10-3t netbook/tablet in exchange for filling out a short survey on USB flashdrive usage. The Lenovo IdeaPad s10-3t tablet device looks a lot like a netbook, but it quickly converts into [...]
