Lenovo CEO Says Different Laptop Colors Causes ‘Angst’
Lenovo CEO Bill Amelio says the company's the titanium ThinkPads launched last year have not been received well by IT managers. In fact, a Forbes.com article sa...
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UltraConfusing PC’s
Samsung Electronics, Intel and Microsoft Korea execs couldn't get a simple presentation to work on a Samsung Q1 UMPC to work during a press conference.
Lightweight 17″ Laptops for the Budget-Minded
Averatec announced its first line of 17" notebooks, the 7100 series. With a 1-inch profile, it weighs only 7.2 pounds, which is less than any other 17-incher o...
Another Notebook Computer Mini-Me- Averatec’s UMPC
Averatec will ship an Ultra Mobile PC this fall.Its 5 inch LCD slides up to reveal a keyboard. Samsung to Ship $700 Ultra Mobile PC
Prices for Ultra Mobile PC's have crept up from the few hundred dollars range, to the mid-$1,000 range. Future Microsoft OS’s Have Cute Nicknames
The Window's OS that will someday replace Vista is code-named "Fiji." Not sure how Microsoft picks their names, but maybe the company should sequester its soft...
Toshiba Qosmio G35-AV600
The Toshiba Qosmio G35-AV600 is a monster of a media center. Toshiba crams the 17 incher with a 1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo processor, video connections galore, 5....
Lenovo, Thinkpads Coming to a Best Buy Near You
Best Buy, the largest consumer electronics retailer in North America, will sell Lenovo Computers this year. The electronics superstore will ...
Notebook Alarms Coming to a Cafe Near You
KkAtRfA1UXc Notebook computers can now be obnoxious as your car thanks to iAlertU. Wait until the notebook on the table next to you goes off, causing you to spi...
World on a Hard Drive
Acer will start shipping a condensed 40 gig version of the âہWorld Wide Webâ€Â with some of its notebook computers. Webaroo, the se...
Cafe Hotspots Getting Too Hot For Notebooks
San Francisco cafes are becoming prime hunting grounds for laptop thiefs, who turn around and sell them for $200 or so on the streets. Last month a PowerBook user was stabbed in the chest while sipping a latte and spent...
Multi-Point Touch Screen Could Replace the Mouse, and Other Annoying Pointers
If you use your computer or PDA enough, you’ve probably felt a little disconnected to your work at one point or another. A new technology may allow you use your hands in lieu if traditional pointing devices.
Sprint and Linksys to Offer EVDO/802.11g Router
All of you paying $59 per month for your notebook computer's Sprint EVDO cards will be able to create hotspots anywhere thanks to a Linksys router being launched later this year. With speed and coverage upgrades planned over the next...
HP &Cingular to Offer Notebooks with Global 3G
HP will integrate Cingular’s BroadbandConnect into future HP business notebooks.HP is expected to be the first company to provide customers with global 3G capabilities when it expands its range of broadband wireless notebooks to integrate Cingular’s UMTS/HSDPA-based technology later this year.
Boot Camp: Windows XP On Intel Macs
More and more people are buying and loving Macs. To make this choice simply irresistible, Apple will include technology in the next major release of Mac OS X, Leopard, that lets you install and run the Windows XP operating system.
26″ Rims+Laptop+WiFi+SUV=PimpStar
Usually we wouldn’t post something like this, but this is the true definition of “mobile technology,†and there’s a notebook involved. PimpStar rims use 6 LED’s per wheel to display any photo, logo or message.
One Laptop Per Child Specs Released
Someday soon underprivileged children will carry super efficient laptops with a 500 MHz AMD processor, 128 MB of RAM, 512 MB Flash Drive and a dual-mode LCD, running at 640Ãâ€â€Â480 in color mode and 1110Ãâ€â€Â830 in black and...
Microsoft Releases High Def Mouse for Notebook Computers
Microsoft Hardware is relaunching its Wireless Notebook Optical mouse that now features High Definition technology.
AlphaGrips Video Demo: VideoGame Controller Like Keybord at 50 WPM
Here are a couple of video demos of AlphaGrips plugged into laptop computers. This thing is like a XBOX controller on steroids and has all the functionality of a full sized keyboard. Wouldn’t it be nice of crackberry’s...
Dell Kills 90 Day Warranties
Dell has scuttled its 90-day warranties on notebook computers, improving protection on all notebooks to one year or more. . Consumer-grade Inspirons had been subject to the lackluster 90-day warranties for about a year, with an "extended" one year warranty...