Archive for October, 2010
Notebooks.com Week in Review – MacBook Air and the HP Slate – October 22
In case you missed the news this week Apple introduced two new MacBook Air notebooks and HP finally made the HP Slate Official. At a Back to the Mac press event where the company introduced iLife ’11, OS X Lion and FaceTime for Mac Steve Jobs unveiled a new 11.6″ MacBook air and a 13.3″ [...]
Star Walk: iPad App of the Week
Earlier this week one of our writers, Ben, showed you how to use your mobile phone to do some star-gazing. He focused on iPhone and Android apps. Inspired by his great post, we decided to show off Star Walk as this week’s iPad App of the Week. Star Walk is a visually beautiful app that [...]
Windows 7 Year in Review – A Look Back after 240 Million Licenses Sold
It seems like just yesterday Windows 7 was released to manufacturing. Time flies indeed! I remember my first experience with Windows 7 which was the developer preview build 6801 released at the Microsoft Public Developer Conference in October 2008. Of course, it was still early in the development phase and you didn’t see a lot [...]
How to Use Your iPod Touch Like an iPhone
The latest iPod Touch is more like the iPhone than any previous generation with the camera and the retina display. Steve Jobs even hinted that the device is phone-like in his announcement when he said it was like an “iPhone without a contract”. With a little effort, a few apps, and some optional accessories the [...]
MacBook Air 11-inch Tear Down by iFixit.com
The iFixit folks, who specialize in tearing down perfectly good products for the purpose of showing us how to open them up in order to look inside for repair, upgrade or curiosity, have done so with the new MacBook Air 11-inch model. They offer step-by-step instructions for taking the new MacBook Air apart if you [...]
HP Slate 500 Camera Demo
The HP Slate 500 comes with a pair of webcams for video calls and to capture photos and videos. I gave the 3MP camera on the bacl of the Slate 500 a spin and recorded the following video. If you want to read more about the HP Slate 500, you can read more about the [...]
HP Slate 500 Detailed Hands On & First Impressions With Slate and Accessories
During our meeting with HP we were able to give the HP Slate 500 a good look and caught the Slate and its accessories on camera. You can see more details on the HP Slate 500 and accessories from our earlier coverage as well as another HP Slate 500 hands on video. More HP Slate [...]
HP Slate 500 Hands On Video
We were able to catch up with HP earlier today for a hands on with the HP Slate 500, HP’s new Windows 7 Slate. You can see the first Hands on video below which gives you a tour of the device. We’ll also have a longer HP Slate 500 tour which gives you a look at [...]
HP Slate 500 Announced – Hands on with HP’s Windows 7 Slate (Video)
HP has just made the HP Slate 500 Tablet PC official. The HP Slate, shown off in early stages way back in January, has had a long road to becoming an official product but it is indeed real and will be available in the U.S. for $799 including a HP Slate Digital Pen, HP Slate Dock (with [...]
Microsoft Windows 7 Turns 1 and Celebrates 240 Million Copies Sold
Microsoft shipped Windows 7 one year ago today replacing one of its least popular operating systems (Windows Vista) with what a year later is now the company’s most popular OS. In its first year Windows 7 has sold 240 Million copies. Most of those are sold as pre-installed copies on computers that are sold from [...]
