More Affordable MacBook Pros Announced

Apple revised its MacBook Pro line today at WWDC. The company's aluminum 13" MacBooks have been upgraded and now carry the MacBook Pro moniker. Apple revised an...
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Apple Getting Ready to Launch New iPhone?

Apple's Worldwide Developer's Conference is getting underway today and a new iPhone may be announced. Apple will definitely be releasing iPhone 3.0, new softwar...

Lenovo ThinkPad Warehouse Sale in North Carolina

Lenovo is opening its warehouse sale to the public next. These events are normally reserved for Lenovo employees and their families, but anyone can visit the Whitsett, NC facility to pick up some Lenovo gear at deep discounts between 8am and 4pm on June 13.

Save up to $350 on Sony Vaio Notebooks

tt_gallery4Sony is offering some substantial rebates on their popular line of Vaio notebooks. Read on to see what deals and rebates are available direct from the manufacturer:

iolo technologies Reclaims Speed of Cluttered Computers

sm_shotFor most people, a computer that is constantly lagging, freezing, crashing, or otherwise performing poorly is due cause for drastic measures. Sometimes, computers only a few years old are simply replaced when they start acting up. Other times, said computer is brought to a specialist and the consumer is charged a hefty premium in order to address the issues at hand.
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Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 Gameplay Demo

Here's a video demo Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 from E3. The demo shows characters scaling an ice wall, battling on an airfield and fighting on snowmobiles. Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 is going to be one of the biggest gaming titles released this year and I will probably pick up a copy on each gaming platform its offered on.

Palm Pre Reviewed ….Extensively

The Palm Pre will begin selling at Sprint stores this Saturday, but before you rush out and buy one you should read Engadget's multi-page review and watch the d...
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Microsoft Bing TV Commercial (video)

Microsoft is getting ready to kick off a massive television commercial campaign to launch Bing.com, the company's new search engine. Here's the first ad in the ...

SanDisk Announces Netbook-centric pSSD

pssd_p2_lif_and_pssd_s2_standardSanDisk used Computex as the launch pad for its new 2nd generation solid state drives aimed at the expanding netbook market. Many first-generation netbooks with SSDs experienced slower-than-expected performance, but SanDisk has developed ncache to speed up SSD performance while still maintaining low cost.

Fujitsu USA Joins Netbook Race

m2010_front_smFujitsu today announced their own netbook called the M2010. The Fujitsu M2010 is geared towards students from K-12 and mobile professionals, but can it distinguish itself from the myriad of other netbooks out there?

Iomega Releases Mac Compatible eGo Portable Hard Drives

Iomega's introduced a mac-compatible version of its new eGo portable hard drives. The new hard drives are much more rugged than standard portable hard drives. They can withstand drops of up 51 inches. These drives feature one Firewire 400, Firewire 800 and USB 2.0 ports.

Virgin America: Day in the Clouds Contest

Virgin America and Google are teaming up for a promotion called The Day in the Cloud Challenge to promote in-flight WiFi. One lucky winner wil get 1TB of storage on Google Apps, a year of free flights and an HP netbook.
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Hands on: NVIDIA Tegra Netbooks

Our friends from netbooknews.com are at Computex in Taipei this week and spent some time checking out some netbooks powered by NVIDIA's Tegra technology.
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Windows 7 Launch Date Set: October 22, 2009

Microsoft's confirmed the launch date of Windows 7. Retailers will begin selling copies of the new operating systems on October 22. The company also confirmed that it will offer free or discounted copies of Windows 7 to customers who purchase notebooks with Windows Vista, but details haven't been announced.

Smartbook Design Concepts

orthoFreescale partnered with the Savannah College of Art and Design to come up with new mobile computing design concepts. These "smartbook" designs aren't your typical notebooks as you can see in the attached photo gallery.

Acer Releases New Line Of All-Day Notebooks

6-2-2009-10-04-31-amAcer's upcoming Aspire Timeline brand of notebook computers will combine performance with long battery life. The Timeline notebooks will come in three iterations with each providing a blend of performance and extended run time. A 13.3" model dubbed AS3810T is the most expensive model, checking in at $899.99 while running Intel's Core 2 Duo SU9400 (1.4GHz). Due to the small screen, it provides a whopping 9 hours of battery life.

Intel Announces New Mobile Processors At Computex

intel-computexIntel is busy at Computex 2009, where it will be announcing new processors for mobile and laptop computing. There are four new models coming, with the T9900 as the flagship model, pushing above 3GHz processor speeds. The P9700 and P8800 increases performance with large amounts of high speed cache memory. The SU2700 is geared towards the ultra-portable market and will be used in the new thin and light notebooks, which Intel expects to be the big sellers in 2009. Additionally, Intel plans on releasing a new chipset dubbed GS40 to maximize performance from these new processors. Via UberGizmo

Viliv S5 Unboxing Photos

viliv_s5_15We bought several Viliv S5s for an upcoming project and I've really enjoyed using one for the past few days. I snapped some photos as I unboxed one of these Mobile Internet Devices and put together a quick photo gallery.