Tag: Laptop
Add a Whiteboard to Your Laptop Lid with DrawTop
From the ‘too simple for most of us to come up with’ file, we learn about the home project of turning your laptop lid into a whiteboard with a DrawTop vinyl adhesive. Your DrawTop sticks to the lid of your laptop and lets you draw or write on it. You can use it as a [...]
How to Protect Your Notebook in Case You Lose It
I lost my MacBook Air this week. Fortunately, I got it back when someone turned it into the manager of the restaurant where I left it. I was fortunate, but what if the finder decided to be a keeper? What if she also found a way to crack my system password, access my email, bank [...]
Samsung 9 Series 11″ Notebook Hits U.S. with Core i3 and High Pricetag
The Samsung 9 Series captivated us at CES 2011, earning a Best of CES award, and now it has arrived for sale in the U.S. in a smaller 11.6″ version which comes with a smaller price tag, but not a cheap one. The 11.6″ notebook is available at retailers like Amazon for $1,159 which, like [...]
How Girl Talk Uses His Notebook To Make Music (Video)
Even if you don’t like the music produced by Girl Talk, aka Gregg Gillis, you are probably familiar with his fair use stretching and catchy music that has been mix and mashing beats, vocals and more since he took off in 2006. Rolling Stone caught up with Gillis in their New York office to see [...]
Toshiba Unveils Tecra R850 Notebook
The 15-inch Toshiba Tecra R850 is the third of Toshiba’s new series of business-class notebooks that consists of the 13-inch Portege R830 and the 14-inch Tecra R840. As the largest model of the series, the Tecra R850 follows the design stylings of the smaller R830 and R840 models while maintaining a strengthened fiber glass body [...]
Toshiba Introduces Tecra R840 Notebook
In addition to the 13-inch Portege R830, Toshiba has also introduced the Tecra R840 14-inch business class notebook which follows the industrial design cues from the smaller Portege R830 mode. The Tecra R840 branding is new to this year’s lineup as last year’s 14-inch Tecra was called the Toshiba Tecra M11. The change in branding [...]
Toshiba Launches Portege R830 Ultraportable
With the coming of Intel’s second-generation Sandy Bridge Core i Series mobile processors combining a revamped intel Intel HD 3000 graphics solution, Toshiba is also updating its ultra-portable business class Portege R830 to bring the latest improvements to its slim and light notebook. Design-wise, the Portege R830 will set the tone for this year’s re-design [...]
MSI X370 to Challenge 9 Series, MacBook Air
MSI has just announced its latest challenger to Apple’s popular ultra-portable MacBook Air in the form of the X370. The MSI X370, part of the X-Series, would belong in the slim and light class that Samsung’s new 9 Series is part of. The X370 is less than an inch thick and can run for up [...]
Samsung’s 9 Series Ultra-Thin Priced and Ready to Buy, But Is It Too Expensive?
The Samsung 9 Series laptop, which we previewed at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this year and awarded a Notebooks.com Best of CES 2011 award to, is now priced by Samsung and will go on sale today, March 17th. What’s dubbed as a MacBook Air-killer, the thing that may kill the 13-inch 9 Series may [...]
The iPad and iPad 2 Beat Notebooks in Quiet and Mobile Settings
The iPad and iPad 2 won’t replace your notebook, but the small tablets can do beat notebooks in many settings, including when you need to work quietly or on the go. Notebooks are getting thinner and lighter every month, but they still require something to rest the notebook on. And while notebook keyboards have improved over the [...]
