Archive for July, 2010
How Best Buy Uses Its Value Equation to Determine Which Laptops to Sell
Laptop MAGAZINE got the chance to sit down with “the most important person in the PC industry you’ve probably never heard of”, Best Buy’s Vice President of Computing. Jason Bonfig gave the low down of how Best Buy chooses which laptops to sell in its stores. Due to the large number of retail stores throughout [...]
Giveway: Speck PixelSleve Plus iPad Case
UPDATE: We have a winner. Linze Anderson is our winner and we will be sending this out shortly. Congratulations to Linze! Notebooks.com is giving away another iPad case, this time from Speck. The Speck PixelSleve Plus iPad Case is a very nice sleeve style case with a zipper, carrying handles and a protective inner lining. [...]
MSI Launches New Wind U230
MSI recently launched a newer version of the Wind U230 thin and light netbook. The new version swaps out the 12.1-inch display for an 11.6-inch display. The MSI Wind U230 features: 11.6-inch display (1366×768 resolution) 1.6GHz AMD Athlon Neo MV-40 processor ATI Radeon HD3200 Graphics processor 2GB of RAM 250 GB HDD 802.11b/g/n WiFi 1.3-megapixel [...]
Griffin Reveal iPhone 4 Case: Better than the Bumper
The Reveal iPhone 4 Case from Griffin is what the Apple Bumper case should have been if Apple was more interested in protecting the phone than fixing the reception issues. Due to the reception issues, one thing is sure you have to have a case if you want a good signal while holding the iPhone [...]
Fix the iPhone 4′s Reception with an Antenn-aid
Designers Szymon Weglarski and Jon Dorfman created the Antenn-aid, following Apple’s iPhone 4 Press Conference last week. The Antenn-aid aims to fix the iPhone 4 reception issue by covering up the problem area. At Apple’s Press Conference last week, Steve Jobs announced that Apple acknowledges the reception problem and will be offering free iPhone 4 [...]
Road Trip Backups: Apricorn Aegis Padlock External Harddrive Review
You can’t have a road trip without pictures, especially if you are going to places like Mount Rushmore, the Wind Caves and Devil’s Tower. Thanks to digital cameras, snapping a thousand pictures in the course of a week is easy to do, but if you aren’t backing up your pictures you are asking for trouble. [...]
Amazon Sells More eBooks than Hardcovers
Amazon announced on Monday that it has sold more eBooks than hardcovers for three months straight. Amazon is one of the nation’s largest booksellers. Back in 2007, the company released the Amazon Kindle, an eReader. Since then, Amazon has increased its Kindle Book library, providing cheaper, electronic alternatives to many hardcover books. Amazon is claiming [...]
Notebook Security While Traveling: Hardware and Software Solutions
Traveling with technology can make a trip much easier when it comes to staying connected, but it also means you need to secure your notebook and other gadgets in a mobile environment. This could be a hotel room, car or coffeeshop – but in any case your notebook will be more vulnerable than it is [...]
Giveway: Waterfield Designs iPad Smart Case
UPDATE: Justin Jones is our winner and we will be sending this case out to Justin soon. Congratulations and enjoy the case! Notebooks.com is giving away one of our review samples from Waterfield Designs. The iPad Smart case is a premium sleeve case for the Apple iPad with a retail price of $59. We reviewed [...]
Samsung SyncMaster P2350 Review: Big Screen on a Budget
The Samsung SyncMaster P2350 is a 23″ HD monitor that offers looks and performance for a great price. Samsung provided us with a review unit for the past 30 days which gave us the opportunity to see how the budget priced monitor handles all types of tasks. The P2350 may be budget priced at around [...]
