Road warriors, mobility geeks, and little elf, the lightweight ultra-portable X300 has finally arrived. Lenovo is now taking orders of the “MacBook Air” competitor, a 13.3” thin and light laptop.
Despite its best multimedia intentions, Toshiba’s X205-SLi4 notebook is always now going to be criticized for having an HD-DVD drive rather than Blu-Ray; but is this a single chink in its vast armor, or a sign of disappointment to come? SlashGear squared up to the $2,499, 9.37lb monster to find out.
Alas, one of the other major PC manufacturers is getting into the UMPC space, well not really, it might just be semantics, but I’d call this and ultra-portable, not a UMPC. It’s the Compaq 2133 and its being made to compete with the Asus Eee, although hopefully it won’t have the same superbly generic hardware [...]
Wireless USB has been making a lot of headway recently, I haven’t actually gotten the chance to get my hands on some WUSB equipment yet, but as soon as I do, I’ll let you know how it goes. Regardless, NEC isn’t the first to start integrating the technology into their notebooks, but they are the [...]
Colorware is at it again, reupping their Apple game by adding the company’s latest addition to their color-change lineup. You can now get your MacBook Air customized in a broad array of colors instead of leaving it aluminum colored.
I’m not a ThinkPad fanboy, but my experience with ThinkPad has been amazing. The X300 excites me and I’m planning to get one for myself. One lucky dude in LA was able to get a unit for himself. Like a true techie, rather than just using the laptop and brag about it, he went [...]
Intel will be labeling its new Montevina platform as Centrino 2. The chip is due in Q2 (probably in May) and will be running on 1066MHz FSB with clock starting from 2.26Ghz up to 3.06Ghz. The Centrino 2 chips will be priced at $209-851.
Montevina to be paired with the Cantiga chipset and refreshed Wi-Fi 802.11 [...]
LaptopMag was one of the first if not the first to get their CloudBook and they did the usual unboxing/fondling of it and have some interesting first impressions. In a nutshell, they seem to hate it.
I know our Chris Barr is waiting to get Everex Cloudbook from his Wal-Mart today, but it seems that none of the retailer that supposed to carry the product have them. Everex still shows Feb 15th as the shipping date.
Dell XPS M1730 gaming laptop has been refreshed! It is now available with Intel’s latest processor, Penryn. The new CPUs from Intel are manufactured in 45-nanometer process and was announced during the 2008 CES.