Archive for April, 2011
Amazon Lowers Best Selling MP3 Prices to 69 Cents
Amazon is taking to Apple and other digital music sellers with Amazon Cloud Player and now with 69 cent MP3s. The company announced that it is offering the new price on many best selling new songs. The deal is not on all songs. We did a search for a few of our favorite bands who [...]
Lenovo Takes on Apple By Advertising to Doers, Thinkers and Tinkerers
Lenovo is rolling out a new ad campaign designed to show customers that the IdeaPad and ThinkPad line of notebooks can help consumers, especially 18-25 year old consumers, get things done. This is no small task for a company that is known for corporate controlled notebooks, but the new ads that go for the “doers” [...]
Weekly Wrap Up: Notebook, Tablet and Smart Phone News for April 29th
This week we saw a Verizon 4G LTE outage push back the Samsung Droid Charge, the release of new Dell Precision mobile workstations, release of the Droid Incredible 2 and much more. We also have a great roundup of Mother’s Day Tech Gifts that includes eReaders, smartphones and notebooks. This list includes Mother approved gifts [...]
Ultraportable AMD Fusion Notebook Roundup: Lenovo, HP and MSI
2011 is a big year for affordable ultraportable notebooks that don’t come with a collection of compromises typical of mini notebooks and netbooks of the past. Most of this is thanks to the introduction of the AMD Fusion APU which was announced at CES 2011 and earned our Best Innovation of CES award. This new [...]
Samsung Alex Coming wth Chrome OS: Google Chrome Notebook
It looks like Samsung will release a new notebook with the Google Chrome OS according to reports of a leak a Dutch site ChromeNieuws.nl (Google Translation). The original site at Google Chrome OS code site where the leak first showed up is no longer available. Below is a screen shot of it. The beginning of [...]
Booq Mamba Shift L Review: Slim and Stylish Notebook Bag
The booq Mamba Shift L backpack is a jet black bag from booq that is a slim, well constructed and comfortable bag for carrying your gear around town, or across the country. The booq Mamba Shift L is designed to hold a 13″ -17″ Mac and up to a 16.4″ PC. The Mamba Shift L [...]
AutoPainter HD Makes Art out of iPad 2 Pictures
AutoPainter HD is a photography app for the iPad. It uses the pictures you have on your iPad or that you take with your iPad 2 and transforms them into what looks like paintings. It is a fun app that can save those pictures you hoped would be beautiful, but didn’t turn out because of [...]
Notebooks in High Demand, Tablets Poised to be 3rd Device
While some analysts feel that the notebook is going to be replaced by tablets, a recent survey by Dell and Forrester shows that laptops and notebooks remain in high demand in the workplace, where content creation is key. The survey of employees and IT decision makers shows that despite a consumerization of the enterprise, the [...]
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Mac Vs. PC: Habits, Hipsters and Hero Sandwiches [infographic]
Mac vs. PC. The back and forth between the respective user groups won’t likely die down in our lifetimes. While the Mac or PC arguments often focus on specs, price, openness and looks, the real reason for the disagreements could be the varying users that make up the PC people and the Mac People parties. Hunch reached [...]
MSI GX780 Gaming Notebook Launches with Gamer Optimized SteelSeries Keyboard
MSI has just announced a new gaming notebook, the MSI GX780 with a steelseries keyboard that is designed with gamers in mind. This new notebook doesn’t go up to 4.5GHZ, but it does come with everything you need to game on the go — including Sandy Bridge, Nvidia GeForce GT555M graphics and a gamer friendly keyboard layout. [...]
