Archive for March, 2011
Dell Latitude E6320 Available for Purchase
Dell has quietly added the Dell Latitude E6320 to the online store, with prices starting at $959 after discounts which currently range up to $450. The Dell Latitude 6320 is a business class notebook that is designed to handle the needs of mobile professionals in the office and on the road. We first looked at this notebook [...]
11″ Showdown: Samsung Series 9 Compared to the MacBook Air
Samsung has finally made the Series 9 11″ Windows powered ultraportable available for sale, joining the pricy Series 9 13″ notebook. Both of these new Series 9 notebooks are designed to take on the MacBook Air 11″, and while we know it’s not all in the specs we wanted to take a look at the [...]
How to Track Down a Stolen Laptop After You’ve Lost It
There are plenty of solutions for tracking down stolen laptops, but most of them require you to install a program before you lose it. Fortunately, there are a few programs and tools that you can use to try to track down your lost or stolen laptop even if you didn’t plan ahead. The key is, [...]
10 Great Uses of Preview for Mac OS X
Preview is the application most Mac user think is intended to just view files like PDFs or pictures. But it is actually a powerful program. Here are some of the cool things you can do with Preview in Mac OS X. These tips will save you some time since you won’t have to open a [...]
Samsung Series 9 Vs. MacBook Air Speed Tests: Boot & Wake From Sleep
The Samsung Series 9 notebook is a sleek and sexy new ultraportable that looks to compete with the MacBook Air in style, power and apparently in speed. Laptop Magazine put the two to a head to head challenge to see which notebook could boot faster, which is important to some users, but also to see which notebook [...]
Weekly Wrap Up: Notebook, Tablet and Smart Phone News for March 25th
Another busy week is wrapping up and we’ve pulled together the biggest notebook, tablet and smart phone news of the week, including our Best of CTIA winners, to help you get caught up on what’s going on in technology. The biggest news of the week was arguably the CTIA Wireless 2011 show in Orlando which was the [...]
Apple Patent Potentially Adds Magnetic Antennas to MacBooks or iPads
This week Apple was granted a patent that takes two ideas and puts them together to form an interesting way to attach antennas to either a MacBook or an iPad. According to ZDNet, the antenna is an extendable design meaning it could pull out and be raised for reception and then retracted when not in use. [...]
iPad 2 App QuickShot Uploads Photos to DropBox Instantly
QuickShot is a camera app that immediately uploads photos taken with the iPad 2 camera to DropBox. You can offload those photos for use in other places faster than syncing the iPad 2 to iTunes. This simple and useful app is this week’s Notebooks.com iPad App of the Week. Functionality of QuickShot Open QuickShot and [...]
OnLive Gaming Review: The Future of Gaming
Tonight I played HomeFront, a graphically intense First Person Shooter, on the OnLive MicroConsole, a box about the size of a deck of cards. Tomorrow I could pick up the same game on My MacBook Air 20 miles away on a college campus. This, is the future of gaming, a ubiquitous service which relies not on the [...]
How to Fix Bad Group Photos with Photo Fuse [Fix a Face]
Have you ever taken a group picture and later found out one person wasn’t looking? Don’t you wish you could fix this on your computer without being an expert? Well, the good news is that with Windows Live Essentials 2011 you can go “To the Cloud” and use Photo Fuse to fix group photos. I recently [...]



