Posted on 04 August 2008
Tags: Apple, Apple MacBook, laptop, MacBook, New MacBook, notebook
Well, well, well, what do we have here? Oh, it looks like a new MacBook. Yeah, you heard me. After the recent rumors about the iPhone nano, it seems like Apple is preparing to launch a new notebook. In the pictures, you can see the back of the new MacBook which appears to made of [...]
Posted on 02 August 2008
Tags: beepers, Border, Cellphones, DHS, Electronic Device, Federal Agents, flash drives, hard drives, iPods, laptop, pagers, Seize Laptop, US Border
I can say that you should feel very safe in the U.S. and from now on terrorists will have a hard job in destroying American buildings. According to a report, U.S. federal agents have the permission of retaining the laptops and electronic devices of travelers at the border.
This measure applies even for American citizens and [...]
Posted on 29 July 2008
Tags: 10 dollar laptop, 100 dollar laptop, cheap laptop, education, gartner, india, jointech, laptop
Two reputable technology-focused universities from India, the Indian Institute of Technology and the Indian Institute of Science decided to work together in creating a 10$ laptop, one that anyone would afford to use for educational purposes. The government is also involved, trying to at least come up with a cheap low-powered Internet device that would [...]
Posted on 13 July 2008
Tags: centrino, centrino 2, Intel, laptop, notebook, Sony, Sony Vaio, Vaio
Sone has released a teaser that confirms the release date for their Centrino 2 VAIO line. The new models will be outed on July 14th, at 9PM Eastern and should consume less power, along with an improved performance.
Rumors say that Sony will release 16:9 ratio notebooks, and some models might come with a redesign. The [...]
Posted on 28 June 2008
Tags: Akoya, Akoya Mini, laptop, Medion, Medion Akoya, Medion Akoya Mini, Mini Laptop, Mini Notebook, notebook
Medion has finally put on the marker the Akoya Mini laptop which was showcased previously at Computex. What I don’t understand is why they made it available in Austria at Hofer but this shouldn’t be a problem if you decide to visit Vienna this summer.
The Akoya Mini features an 1.6 GHZ Intel Atom N270 processor, [...]
Posted on 14 June 2008
Tags: Gaming, Gaming Laptop, laptop, Qosmio X305, Toshiba, Toshiba Qosmio, Toshiba Qosmio X305
Gaming laptops are becoming more and more popular therefore the big companies should start involving them into their plans. Well, Toshiba did just that and they unveiled the Qosmio X305.
Reports say that Toshiba’s latest “masterpiece” will feature 3GHz dual-core processor, up to 4GB DDR3 RAM, dual high-speed 7200rpm HDDs of 200GB, 1GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX [...]
Posted on 03 June 2008
Tags: GeForce, GeForce 9M GPU, GPU, HD, Hybrid SLI, laptop, notebook, PureVideo, video processing
The GeForce 9M series promise a 40 percent higher performance than previous types of notebook graphics card (which was of 8M) and are bringing Hybrid SLI for the first time into laptops. The powerful GPU adjusts its efforts pending on the tasks assigned to it.
Among its characteristics, we can find the PureVideo HD video processing, [...]
Posted on 23 May 2008
Tags: dual screen, flip-pad, laptop, notebook, Xentex, Xentex Flip-pad Voyager
A prototype of the Xentex Flip-pad Voyager already made it to eBay, with a starting bid of $99. The laptop with dual 13.3 inch screens independently pivoting is pretty large for its class, and honestly, I can’t think of any good reason for someone to require such a model for their tasks other than bragging [...]
Posted on 22 May 2008
Tags: computer, laptop, laptop per child, touch screen, XO, XOXO, Yves Behar
Yves Behar is the designer of the new version of the XO laptop, called the XOXO. The XO laptop was created from the initiative of the ‘One Laptop Per Child’ project, who’s aim is to provide educational resources to kids from underdeveloped countries.
The new computer is a folding tablet, is half the size of its [...]
Posted on 18 May 2008
Tags: Awesome Laptop Speaker, laptop, laptop speaker, sound, speakers
If you are sick of your tiny laptop speakers, you may try this new mountable speaker that is supposed to give more power to the poor quality integrated speakers. It has a nice design, but ‘la piece de resistance’ is the ‘bend-it’ element.
Yes, it can be bent to whatever direction you want, so you can [...]