Archive for May, 2011
Panasonic Announces Toughbook 53 w/ Sandy Bridge and Updates Toughbook 52 Rugged Notebooks
Panasonic has just announced the new Toughbook 53 and an update to the Toughbook 52 rugged notebooks. The Panasonic Toughbook notebooks are designed to go into conditions that would make other break into pieces. If you aren’t familiar with the Toughbook line, it has some of the ruggedest notebooks on the market — these notebooks [...]
Verbatim Tuff-N-Tiny USB Drive is Both Tuff and Tiny (Rugged USB Drive)
Verbatim has a USB flash drive that is aptly named the Tuff-N-Tiny USB drive. As thin as a penny and not much longer than the diameter of a single cent it holds up under some pretty good punishment and keeps storing those bits of data. To call it a thumb drive would be to misstate the facts. [...]
How to Avoid Buying a Stolen Mac: Apple Store Robbed of 24 MacBooks in 30 seconds (video)
MacBooks and MacBook Pros arguably cost more than a Windows notebook, which means they are frequently the target of thieves like the trio that smashed into an Apple Store in Cleveland Ohio and made off with 24 MacBooks (and an iPod Touch) in 35 seconds. The notebooks, valued at over $20,000 to $30,000, are arguably not for [...]
Lenovo RapidBoot Extreme Starts Laptops in 10 Seconds – ThinkPad T420s (Video)
Lenovo is boasting a new technology called RapidBoot Extreme that starts up a system in about ten seconds, thanks to SSD storage and some interesting prioritization of the various elements in the computer as it makes them available for use after booting up the system. With the help of two celebrities – Danica Patrick of [...]
Toshiba Satellite E305-S1990 Review: Blue Label Notebook – Editor’s Choice
The Toshiba Satellite E305 is a followup to one of our favorite notebooks, the Toshiba E205, and is a worthy followup that delivers an affordable notebook package with the features that should arguable be a part of every consumer notebook. In short, if you are shopping premium Windows notebooks, the Toshiba Satellite E305-S1990X is the notebook you should be [...]
Start Standing Before You’re Laying Six Feet Under – Why You Need to Stand More (InfoGraphic)
Sitting down while you work isn’t just a cause of back pain and poor posture, it can lead to all sorts of nasty diseases and changes in your body that lead to an early death. You might like to joke hat your job is killing you, but it may really be your chair. Because our bodies aren’t built [...]
Microsoft Does the Math on Mac v. PC Cost – And So Do We
In light of my earlier post about using my MacBook Air primarily for running Windows 7, it was somewhat ironic to learn that Microsoft Canada has a page suggesting that we consider whether we would rather “Surf the web or surf Hawaii.” The premise is that they are comparing Macs and PCs saying that since [...]
HP EliteBook 2560p Combines Optical Drive and Small Form Factor (video)
HP is boasting that the EliteBook 2560p is a unique notebook in its class as it is one of the few to combine an optical drive in an ultra-portable 12.5-inch form factor targeted at enterprise customers. HP EliteBook 2560P Quick Specs Like the EliteBook 2760p Tablet PC, the 2560p model is also powered by either [...]
HP Mini 210 Updated With Beats Audio & New Design (Video)
HP has updated the HP Mini 210 netbook with a new design and look as well as the addition of Beats Audio, a first in an HP netbook. The new HP Mini 210 will be available starting on June 15th with a new lower $299 starting price tag. HP Mini 210 Quick Specs The new [...]
HP Envy 14 Refreshed with Sandy Bridge and Better Trackpad
HP has announced a refresh to their high end HP Envy 14 notebooks for summer 2011. The new Envy 14 keeps the familiar look and BEATS audio, but adds new 2nd Generation Intel Core i7 processors, AMD graphics and a better trackpad. Overall this is a much needed update and brings many of the options [...]
